Why Does the FDA Recommend 2,000 Calories Per Day? - Marion Nestle - Life. 2,000 calories is only enough to sustain children and postmenopausal women—but it's on nutrition labels everywhere I'm in the midst of working on the copy-edited manuscript of my forthcoming book with Malden Nesheim, Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics (University of California Press, March 2012), and spending every minute I have on it. So I'm going to take some shortcuts and deal with some questions I've been asked recently. One is right on the topic of the book: Q. Could you address the 2,000 calorie a day number (both its history and speculate on how an individual can arrive at a more personalized amount)?
Short of metabolic testing (and I read conflicting opinions on that, too), it seems rather difficult to figure out how much I should be eating. A. If you look at a food label, you will see ingredient contents compared to a 2,000-calorie average diet: "Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Here's the history of where that came from: Privilege Pulls Qatar Toward Unhealthy Choices.
Six Prix-Fixe Restaurants in Paris. THIS is not how I envisioned my first meal in , I thought as I stood in front of L’Agrume. I did not take a three-chapter-long Métro ride to a boring part of the Fifth Arrondissement to eat at a place with a banner in the window advertising a 14-euro lunch menu. Inside, the chalky lavender walls were the same color as the hostess’s angora dress, summoning my inner design snob.
But the welcome was so genuinely warm, I immediately got over myself and remembered why I had come all this way: since he opened L’Agrume in December, the 37-year-old chef Franck Marchesi-Grandi had been getting raves for his five-course 35-euro dinner, making him a prime candidate for my Parisian quest to find bargain menus from rising French chefs. It might take a good street map and sufficient reading material for some long Métro rides, but the journeys will be worth it. With the opening of fantastic low-key spots in off-piste neighborhoods, Paris has entered a new generation of casual fine dining.
Mr. Cooks tour of world leaders. It's the most exclusive private dining club in the world, where members discuss the gastronomic leanings of world leaders - from the Queen's breakfasts to George Bush's evening snacks and Angela Merkel's potato soup. Last night 25 chefs of presidents and monarchs met in Monaco for their annual dinner after a week travelling around France, sampling ingredients and collecting ideas. The Club de Chefs des Chefs (Club of Leaders' Chefs) includes the heads of kitchens from the White House and Buckingham Palace to the United Nations and the Élysée who meet to discuss the challenges of feeding world power-brokers. Cristeta Comerford, the White House chef, is one of only two women currently in the club.
Appointed by Laura Bush in 2005, the Philippines-born chef creates state dinners and holiday menus as well as President Bush's beloved peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Mr Vaussion has yet to comment on the culinary preferences of Nicolas Sarkozy. The menu · Strawberry souffle. How to make a decent cup of tea, following George Orwell's golden rules. - By Christopher Hitchens. Now that "the holidays"—at their new-style Ramadan length, with the addition of Hanukkah plus the spur and lash of commerce—are safely over, I can bear to confront the moment at their very beginning when my heart took its first dip.
It was Dec. 8, and Yoko Ono had written a tribute to mark the 30th anniversary of the murder of her husband. In her New York Times op-ed, she recalled how the two of them would sometimes make tea together. He used to correct her method of doing so, saying, "Yoko, Yoko, you're supposed to first put the tea bags in, and then the hot water. " (This she represented as his Englishness speaking, in two senses, though I am sure he would actually have varied the word order and said "put the tea bags in first. ") This was fine, indeed excellent, and I was nodding appreciatively, but then the blow fell. One evening, he told her that an aunt had corrected him. I simply hate to think of the harm that might result from this. It's not quite over yet.
Weight of the world: Change in the world's BMI since 1980.