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Birthday Celebration
Eating healthy (my definition of healthy) is really easy to do, no matter what kind of special day it might be. The wife celebrated a birthday with me last night after work and the special event was dinner, prepared at … Continue reading
Less Teaching, More Testifying
My significant other tells me that she prefers posts that say how it is, how I feel, more than the posts which are designed to share things I have learned, things I have found online. Hmmm. Well, as I read … Continue reading
Consciousness & Your Gut by Jeff Masters | Sedona Yoga Festival
Consciousness & Your Gut by Jeff Masters | Sedona Yoga Festival. And yet another article about your ‘lower brain’. Seems these things always come in batches. Someday maybe we will go to Sedona, there seems to be some kind of … Continue reading
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So Maybe You CAN Think With Your Gut
According to this Scientific American article, there is a nervous control center similar to the brain located in the abdomen. So when Stephen Colbert talks jokingly about Truthiness and Thinking With His Gut, he was more right than wrong.
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Blowout!
Last meal of the 21 day sugar detox had zero sugar calories. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it was a 1200 calorie meal, all by itself. We went to Rancho Grande Cantina for dinner and I … Continue reading
By Special Request
For my sister, who requested dietary links that all of us could really use, here are a few instructions in my own words with links to people who video tape themselves doing even the easiest things on youtube….
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Crisis, Epidemic, Catastrophe–Another reason to do-it-yourself
Interesting Op-Ed in today’s New York Times contains a great deal of hand-wringing about high blood pressure and high sodium loads in foods packaged and prepared in today’s United States. Side by side with the mountain of sugar they are … Continue reading
Spreading the Good News
Easter Dinner was a great chance to prove the feasibility of holiday meals without any added sugar or starch. This weekend, the last weekend of our sugar-free detox, was perfectly normal compared to the last two weekends without it. Except … Continue reading
Finally not Hungry
Half of a great steak and half of a large wedge salad at Anton’s Taproom was enough to finally dull the edge of the constant hunger I have been feeling. After work yesterday, I came home to a sliced apple, … Continue reading
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What if we realized that food security is homeland security?
Originally posted on Breastfeeding Medicine:
I’m waiting for my flight home from the 1,000 Days U.S. Leadership Roundtable, a spectacular meeting that was held today at the Gates Foundation in Washington, DC. Stakeholders in nutrition and maternal-child health gathered to…
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One Small Change at a Time 