If I wasn’t so nutty about keeping my in box cleaned out, I’d never write on here, it seems… big plans in the works to change up the game, don’t worry. Anywhere, here’s this month’s McDougall news:

McDougall is really pushing more lately. First, suggesting that Bill Clinton had brain damage because of his bypass surgery and now, a posthumous interview with Meet the Press’s Tim Russert, who reports on the diet in the afterlife: “…the food’s terrible. Nothing but rice, potatoes, beans, corn, fruits and vegetables.  Everything’s bland, but they say I’ll get used to it.”

This month’s recipes include items from the recent Celebrity Chef Weekend, so worth checking out for Fat-Free Karei-Rice (Japanese-style Curry Rice), Mexican-Spiced Summer Squash, Bryanna’s Italian Polenta, Bean, and Kale Slices, and Bryanna’s Fat Free Vegan Brown Gravy.

And congratulations to Beth Burns, the most recent Star McDougaller, who attributed her switch to a low-fat vegan diet as a cure for her migraine headaches: “My migraines became fewer and farther between. They appeared once a week, once a month, once in a while, and then they completely disappeared. The last time I had a migraine headache was October 2006.”

According to the PCRM newsletter: A study in today’s American Journal of Epidemiology found that people who were obese or overweight in adolescence were three to four times as likely to have died of heart disease by middle age as compared with their thinner peers. A total of 226,678 Norwegian teens were measured for body mass index (BMI) as part of a compulsory national health survey and followed for an average of 34.9 years. They were found to be two to three times more likely to die from colon cancer or respiratory disease. Women in the highest BMI category were at increased risk of death from cervical cancer and both sexes were at increased risk for sudden death.