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Managing Diabetes

Intuitive Eating Tip: Think of Your Stomach as a Blender

November 30, 2009

The day before Thanksgiving, I received an email that gleefully encouraged me to stuff myself the next day, as that was the American way.  It gave me pause, wondering how we came to this point.  Surely the Pilgrims didn’t approach their day of giving thanks with the idea that they’d walk away from the table [...]

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New Beginnings

September 18, 2009

You’d think after a month of not writing posts, I’d be bursting at the seams with things to say.  But I’m not.  Maybe it’s just a matter of getting going again.  But it also may be that my mind is forward focused, and I’m just not too sure what to say about things at the [...]

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It Happened This Week: FRESH, the movie, Type 2 Diabetes and Health at Every Size & Lemon Coconut Bars

August 14, 2009

Did Food, Inc. leave you depressed?  Then check out FRESH, the movie (trailer above) to see what folks around the US are doing to change the picture. Dietitians are doing their part to change the picture, too.  Under the clever title “Low Carbon is the New Low Carb,” Nutrition Unplugged reviews two new cookbooks written [...]

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Healthy Recipe: Veggie Enchiladas

August 13, 2009

Today’s recipe is courtesy of our good friend and colleague Alta Engstrom, RD, whose website First Kitchen is just the place for those who want to learn their way around a healthy kitchen.  This recipe gives a look at how easy it can be to make a great-tasting good-for-you meal in minutes.  It qualifies as [...]

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For a Smaller Waist, Eat Red Meat, Butter & Whole Milk?

August 12, 2009

I recently rediscovered the blog Junkfood Science whose author Sandy Szwarc, BSN, RN, CCP describes as “critical examinations of studies and news on food, weight, health and healthcare that mainstream media misses.  Debunks popular myths, explains science and exposes fraud that affects your health.” Like us at Green Mountain at Fox Run, Sandy is an [...]

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Getting Fit: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

August 11, 2009

Opinions — everybody has one, right? Among the opinionated, falls the reformed exerciser. You recognize them, the ones who enjoy sharing what exercise regime works best. And somewhere mixed in all that enthusiasm, can be a lot of unsolicited advice about what they think might work better —  for you.  Sometimes ’the reformed’ can be a little too quick to forget [...]

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Is Responsible Advertising an Oxymoron?

August 10, 2009

This is a short post today because if everything goes as planned, I’m flying back from an all-too-rare, all-too-short family vacation at my sister’s home where I got to see my daughter and spend time with the whole family together.  With the son off to college in a few weeks, and daughter off a few [...]

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It Happened This Week: Greek Mussels, Calorie Counting vs. Intuitive Eating, & TV Cooking Shows

August 7, 2009

No, it isn’t Thursday (our usual day to post recipes).  It’s just that I love this picture and I love the recipe even more!  It’s called Mussels Saganaki and is featured on Kalofagas.ca.  Kalofagas means “gourmet” in Greek.  So now you also know the blog is about Greek food, which is one of my favorites [...]

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Healthy Recipe: Mexican Lasagna

August 6, 2009

My husband Alan laughs now at his introduction to beans as a regular part of his meals.  And by regular, I do mean regular.  I grew up in Texas, where we ate beans all the time.  He grew up in New York City; I’m not sure he ever had a bean beyond the canned beans [...]

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What's Wrong with Stealing Cookies from the Cookie Jar

August 4, 2009

Because my husband usually rises before me and switches on the tv in the other room, I often wake to the childhood jingle about stealing cookies from the cookie jar, repeated by a woman and a man touting their weight loss success on the Cookie Diet. It really bugs me, initially just because of the [...]

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