Choosing the foods you eat in advance can help you stick to your healthy diet. Recent research shows the benefit and significance of picking what you eat ahead of time. “…when there was a significant delay between the time a person ordered their food and the time they planned on eating it, they chose lower-calorie meals…’If a decision is going to be implemented immediately, we just care about the immediate consequences, and we discount the long-term costs and benefits,’ Dr. VanEpps [a post-doctoral student involved with the research] said. ‘In the case of food, we care about what’s happening right now – like how tasty it is – but discount the long-term costs of an unhealthy meal’…On the other hand, when you order a meal in advance, ‘you’re more evenly weighing the short-term and the long-term costs and benefits’…You still care about the taste but you’re more able to exert self control.” Additional studies and research support this theory that meal planning can help you improve your diet.

If you have lung cancer, living in a polluted area can accelerate the disease’s progression. New research suggests the further damage it can cause in cancer patients. “Researchers examined cancer registry data on more than 350,000 people diagnosed with lung cancer in California and found patients who lived in communities with higher than average levels of air pollution typically died sooner than their peers who lived in places with cleaner air…Air pollution appeared to have the greatest effect on survival for people diagnosed with early-stage adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer and the form that often afflicts non-smokers. In particular, patients diagnosed with early-stage disease had average survival times of about 2.4 years with high exposure to fine particulate matter, compared with 5.7 years with low exposure, the researchers report.” The study is important because it shows a correlation between pollution and lung cancer and calls for a solution to pollution problems.

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