I have been thinking a lot about habits recently and how to change unwanted ones. Those who know me well often tell me that they think I eat perfectly and that I do not have any eating problems. In a sense that is true because I do eat a very healthy diet. However, I have […]
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As I have talked with many people about nutrition, I learned that they usually know what they should eat. Their problem is actually doing it. They are not sure how to make the change to a healthy eating habit. I have been making a study of habit change in order to help others. My word for the […]
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When I was a child it was the custom in my family and in my church to “give something up for Lent.” This was most often a food, such as candy or soft drinks. The couple of years that I gave up candy for Lent, the candy that I got in my basket on Easter Sunday […]
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Do you remember the movie Network? In it one of the characters has the line “I’m mad as h*** and I’m not going to take this anymore.” This is the type of persistence (without this cuss word) that we will often need about our health. Given the state of our food culture and our environment, as well as aging, […]
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“Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey.” Mother Goose Rhyme Do you remember this children’s nursery rhyme? I do and taught it to my children when they were little. But I did not know that curds and whey were dairy components until I began discovering my food allergy and sensitivity […]
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When we went to Alaska last summer I noticed that the trees were very short. I learned that this is because to permafrost. There is very little topsoil there. The plants only have a 100-day growth period per year because of the cold and snow. Some trees even fall over because of their lack of root structure, due […]
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It’s the time of the year when we tend to think about goals and resolutions. Like many people, I have often set New Year’s resolutions only to quickly find than I am not meeting them. Just today I heard a statistic that only 20 percent of people are meeting their health goals even as early as […]
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It’s mid-January. Have your goals or resolutions for 2019 already failed? If so, don’t beat yourself up. You are in good company. According to a recent article in the New York Times, by January 8, 25% of resolutions have failed and by the end of December only 10% will have been fully kept. I set a number of goals […]
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Nine years ago I was entering my first Thanksgiving and Christmas season with the knowledge of my severe food sensitivities to gluten, soy and corn. I had happy memories of the traditional foods we had at each meal and looked forward every year to my mother’s dressing, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole and especially […]
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There have been a number of good nutrition-related books and cookbooks published during the past few months. I will mention a few that I have personally read and recommend. For more recommended books, see this page on my website. Food: What the Heck Should I Eat This book by Dr. Mark Hyman is a […]
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