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Book Reviews

Is It Any Wonder? Diet Advice from the Past

August 24, 2010

My daughter Lesley was at Green Mountain for the past month, going through our women’s wellness program.  When she wasn’t in class or out on a hike or other fun fitness activity, she pitched in with good cheer and willingness to do whatever needed to be done at a moment’s notice.  As anyone who runs [...]

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A Must-Read for Emotional Eaters

May 3, 2010

Last week I decided to unplug.  Not permanently or even all the time — just evenings.  I’m sure you can relate to why I made that decision.  Staying connected via email, blogs, surfing the internet, whatever was leaving little time for me.  And it wasn’t feeling good. One of the first things I did upon [...]

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Spinning Food Rules

February 2, 2010

I’ve been on a book-buying frenzy lately, picking up new and older books about healthy eating that I haven’t had a chance to review yet.  In coming weeks, I plan to present my non-diet two cents about what’s said in these books — particularly how they fit with the idea of intuitive eating and mindful [...]

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It Happened This Week: The Many Faces of Food as Medicine

January 8, 2010

It’s been a busy week here at Green Mountain with the debut of our new Food as Medicine program.  We opened with a showing of Food, Inc., to provide a good backdrop for some of the food quality issues we planned to talk about.  If you haven’t seen it, Grist has an article on ammonia-hamburgers [...]

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It Happened This Week: Counterclockwise, Positive Body Image in Children, Beauty Foods, and More Vitamin D

October 2, 2009

Crabby McSlacker met Harvard social psychologist, Ellen Langer, who wrote the ground-breaking book Mindfulness, as well as a new book, called Counterclockwise.  Langer’s research on mindfulness and the “psychology of possibility” led her to believe we can use the power of the mind to do things like improve our health and reverse the physical affects [...]

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It Happened This Week: Full-Figured Fashion, Bogus BMI and Drop Dead Divas

July 10, 2009

We’ve featured a few posts about plus-sized fashion this week. Last week marked the first-ever Full Figured Fashion Week (see models for the event posing on the left). The Daily Beast has interviews with the designers while The Frisky says: “Plus-Size Women Get Their Own Fashion Week, But Is That Enough?” Check out this healthy [...]

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It Happened This Week: Cookbooks, Miley, Beyonce and Oprah

May 22, 2009

Diabetes Daily reviews “You Don’t Have to Be Diabetic to Love This Cookbook.” Teen idol Miley Cyrus created a stir on Twitter by writing about her jiggling thighs. The LA Times reports that insurance giant Kaiser Permanente now has farmers markets at many of their medical centers. The Calgary Herald says that one of Canada’s [...]

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Is Gluten-Free the Next Big Weight Loss Diet?

May 20, 2009

You might ask what world I’m living in with that question if you’ve followed weight loss diets for any amount of time.  ‘Cuz you’d know that gluten-free has been around a while as a way to lose weight. I’m skeptical of the advice as a weight loss strategy in and of itself.  But I’m not [...]

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You'd Be So Pretty If… Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies — Even When We Don't Love Our Own

May 19, 2009

We interviewed Dara Chadwick about her new book — title above — because, simply, we were wowed. It’s a great read not only for moms, but for any woman who would benefit from talking to herself more positively about her body, her self. Just imagine you’re your own daughter. What inspired you to write You’d [...]

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Does Eat This, Not That Work for Weight Loss?

May 13, 2009

It may seem like I’m hung up on calories these days given the number of times I’ve written about them in the past weeks.  But I read a research article this weekend that brings the subject up again.  It questions whether the energy balance equation (you know, calories in vs. calories out = your weight) [...]

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