whole grains

There is no question that it's possible for some to lose weight on the diet food sold in the grocery store and touted in Women's magazine's like Self. Most women don't lose weight, but we all know at least one slim woman who eats an austere diet of whole grain cereals and low-fat yogurt, punctuated by coffee. Most of these women seem a little grumpy to me. Grub Street profiled one of them: Mika Brzezinki, host of Morning Joe. What does she eat? Not much, mostly things like Kind Bars (full of sugar), coffee, egg whites, and sad green salads without anything but greens. She is going to host a show called Cook Your Heart Out, which will feature "heart healthy" recipes. Let's bet on how disgusting and devoid of goodness these recipes will be?

Grub Street blog is a favorite of foodies, so the comments were not favorable.

Typical of such dieters, like Mimi Roth, Mika has plenty of hate for delicious food, as well as for people who don't fit her standards of thinness. According to the Village Voice:

She supports a tax on all red meat, and often makes comments about overweight people on Morning Joe: "All I want you to pay a little more so I don't have to pay for your big butts, okay?"

Yuck. Me? I'm working in a cafe, just had pastured pork belly with yuzu marmalade. You don't have to be miserable and eat horse chow to have a good relationship with food. Mika's probably a bit malnourished and you don't have to do that to have a healthy heart.