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Category Archives: Health
How It All Began
I love to cook. I love to cook things that lots of people don’t even realize that you can cook for yourself. I make my own salad dressings, like ranch and Russian. I make my own mayonnaise, yogurt, bacon, corned … Continue reading
It Is A Matter Of Life And Death
It really is a matter of life and death, I am not being too shrill. I am reading Gary Taubes’ book “Good Calories, Bad Calories” and the current chapter is discussing the likelihood that diabetes and metabolic syndrome are precursors … Continue reading
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Tagged carbohydrates, diabetes, eating healthy, fat, fructose, fruit juice, healthy eating, sugar, triglyceride, type 2 diabetes
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Nina Weighs In
One of my favorite champions of natural fats in our diet, Nina Teicholz, author of one of my favorite books “The Big Fat Surprise,” has offered us her opinion of the new dietary guidelines from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Fat Surprise, carbohydrates, losing weight, Nina Teicholz, real food, sugar, USDA
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Big Baby Step
Change is coming is tiny increments. First, Time magazine came out with the big report exonerating lard and butter–they are now known to not be dangerous to your heart or waist. Then government diet advisory committees came out with new … Continue reading
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Tagged dietary standards, quitting sugar, real foods, sugar recommended
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Who Doesn’t Like “-Free Food”
The first hazard sign is right there on the label. If the food has a health claim on the label, if it is sugar-free, gluten-free, fat-free then it is something you should be avoiding. A food that has had a … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial ingredients, mindfulness, natural food, Pandora's Lunchbox, The Food Babe
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Whatever Works, Think About It
I don’t happen to believe that in order to lose weight a person is required to become more physically active. I don’t think that gaining weight is a function of putting in more energy that we are expending. Even though … Continue reading
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Tagged competition, exercise, kundalini, losing weight, mindfulness, yoga
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Think For Yourself…
So the government is going through it’s every-five year kabuki dance of making dietary recommendations for the nation as a whole. According to Mother Jones Magazine this morning, things are changing, and things are staying the same. For the last … Continue reading
Balance Should Be A Four-Letter Word
The idea of balance is one of the greatest impediments to eating right and losing unhealthy weight. It is hard to feel like you are feeding yourself and your family right if there aren’t ‘healthy’ vegetables and starches on the … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, breaking addictions, carbohydrates, Change for the Better, eating healthy, fructose, insulin, sucrose
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Too Old To Eat
I have done it both ways. I have cut an apple and eaten part of it and when I got back to it the exposed flesh had browned and, because it looked unappealing, I discarded a mostly-fresh apple. Alternatively, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic Apples, FDA, frankenfoods, genetically modified foods, gmo, GMO crops, USDA
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Trust, But Verify
How can you know that when you put a gallon of gasoline in your car that you are really getting as much as you are paying for? There is a division of your state government that randomly checks the pumps … Continue reading
One Small Change at a Time 