Parties with a variety of food that we can’t really control can be depressing and/or maddening. If you’re regimenting a strict diet, it can be super sucky if you’re faced with a table full of things you can’t eat (but want to). However, it doesn’t have to be a huge challenge ... Read More »
Good Health
These are my articles that help maintain good health or to get healthy, from my perspective. I’m not a doctor but food, rather than exercise, is how I maintain a healthy weight. Read to find out how you can too, deliciously, and without feeling deprived.
6 Tips for a better breakfast and why
Hate to admit it, but Mom was right: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Since food is the fuel for you body, what you eat absolutely sets you up for a productive or a sluggish morning. A better breakfast — heavy on the protein rather than carbohydrates — will set your metabolic ... Read More »
Five food books worth reading to get healthy
I read about nutrition a lot. Almost obsessively. But there’s a good reason — the information in printed (and electronic) pages is how I learned to keep weight off and my health optimal, despite my daily food and wine gluttony. With the constant misinformation floating around our culture, ... Read More »
Healthy eating: 8 ways to introduce delicious nutrition to your day
It ain’t easy getting healthy and losing weight. For on-the-go people, getting the required “5-a-Day” (now morphing into 8-a-Day) can be a challenge and seem impossibly harried. But a few small changes can have a big impact. These eight little things will provide some solace and ... Read More »
Eating Healthy: Unscrambling the egg myths and truths
A few years ago, the humble egg went through a public relations nightmare. Blemished with the falsehood of causing high cholesterol, eggs scared many people away. Health seeking consumers eschewed the nutritious yolk, favoring the boring, flavorless white, if they ate eggs at all. A sad sight.
Then, ... Read More »
The truth about the grocery store brands you love (infographic)
Think you know everything there is to know about the brands you love? Maybe not. This infographic (shared by financesonline.com) depicts the reality of the majority ownership of brands in the grocery store aisles. It’s a bit on the salacious side (“dominate”? “disturbing”?) ... Read More »
Five tricks that will help you lose weight while still being a foodie
I’m a foodie. Food obsessed. Food experimenter and cook. Food grower. So I’m not talking about tricks like eating 10 grapefruit per day or living on only avocados, although both of those are part of a foodie arsenal. Here are five easy, implement-today additions to your life that will ... Read More »
Four easy weight loss tips for a new year and a new you
The #1 New Year’s resolution is to lose weight. Some succeed… many do not. But those that do put in the effort and take the extra steps (literally) required to make a lifestyle change for the better. There are so many things you can do to feel awesome and lose weight but these four easy ... Read More »
Seven small, easy things foodies can do to lose weight and stay healthy
With the bombardment of temptations in our paths every day, it ain’t easy staying healthy. Salt-ladened this, sugar-soaked that, it’s no wonder dieting is an American pasttime — one that isn’t fun or productive. The real way to take pounds off and keep them off is to make permanent ... Read More »
How to stay thin when you drink wine for a living – four nutrition guidelines
About five years ago, after a lifetime of eating and drinking carelessly, I started putting on the pounds. At 5’2″, my height to weight ratio had topped new levels of embarrassment. That, and my clothes weren’t fitting anymore and I’m too cheap (or lazy?) to shop for new clothes. ... Read More »