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Price or Cost

Last week Mark Bittman tried to calculate the cost of our national love affair with the fast food hamburger. In the article he tried to differentiate the low price of the meal from the high cost of the meal. You … Continue reading

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The Soil and You

Have you heard about Omega 3? It is the good cop to Omega 6’s bad cop. What about sugar, did you know that there are different chemical types of sugars? Do you know the different effect the different sugars have … Continue reading

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Preschool Foie Gras…

…As in paté. The main ingredient in Foie Gras is duck liver, and the liver must contain lots of liver-fat. In order to find a duck with a fatty liver, in France they force-feed corn to the ducks. In nature … Continue reading

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Why We Can’t Wait For Help

The tipping point is in the past for processed foods. When Joseph Kellog invented a way to turn corn meal into corn flakes for breakfast in 1906 there wasn’t too much wrong with breakfast cereal. A stroll down the breakfast … Continue reading

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You’re Not As Young As You Used To Be

You’re not as young as you once were is one of those stupid sayings that just states a fact. Every moment of your life this is true about where you are now compared to where you once were. As you … Continue reading

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What’s Stopping You from Starting?

Change is hard, because you are used to doing things the old way. Some of those old things are habits, you get up, stumble into the kitchen and put on coffee. After you are ready for work you read the … Continue reading

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One Small Change inaugural meeting

One Small Change inaugural meeting This is a link to my Facebook event for the kickoff meeting for our support group.

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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

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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

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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

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