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Dietionary

Making Peace with Food

September 1, 2010

Last week I posted on food addiction.  My suggestion was to attempt to find ways to eat certain foods in moderation before writing them off completely.  As I wrote last week:
“I encourage people to play around with combinations first before throwing in the towel and assuming you can’t eat something because they are addicted to it.  [...]

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Food Addiction: Don’t Assume the Worst First

August 25, 2010

At Green Mountain at Fox Run, it’s very common to hear women state that they are food addicts, or sugar addicts.  The most common description of this is that once a person eats foods high in sugar or refined flours (often accompanied by fat) they have difficulty stopping.  They may also notice that they want [...]

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Help Me Lose Weight!

May 5, 2010

How many diet plans or diet tools have we stumbled on over the years and thought, “maybe THIS could be the thing that works for me?”  It’s normal to be hopeful when, having been let down by all other weight loss options, something new comes along.  If we haven’t tried it, we are excited about the [...]

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What’s for Lunch?

April 14, 2010

Recently I’ve been working on a series of lunch-salad recipes for busy nurses who need to pack their lunch for work.  These are being posted on the website Scrubs: A Nurses Guide to Good Living.  Although all of you out there are not nurses, I’m sure most people could benefit from having some new lunch [...]

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Organic or Not Organic, That is the Question

April 8, 2010

I asked my husband, “what should I blog about today.”  He said “blog about GMO’s.”  This made me so proud, since when I met him I’m pretty sure he didn’t know anything about genetic modification, now it’s the first thing that pops into his head.  GMO’s are a big subject, but it got me thinking about [...]

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Who Ate My Lunch???

March 17, 2010

No I’m not talking about somone stealing your lunch out of the break-room fridge, I’m talking about eating amnesia, which can certainly thwart our weight loss goals.  While they do make plastic bags that give the appearance of moldy food to deter someone from snagging your sandwich, I’m unaware of a product that will help us avoid [...]

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Meals, Snacks & Your Metabolic Rate

January 27, 2010

In class yesterday, one of our participants was wondering if eating five or six mini meals is better for her metabolism than eating three major meals. At Green Mountain we work with three main meals, but also give people the opportunity to add snacks throughout the day as needed because everyone is different in terms [...]

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Finding What Works for You: Thoughts on Food Journals

December 16, 2009

Robyn Priebe, RD, nutrition director at Green Mountain, is back today with a bit of a twist on my Monday post on listening to yourself.
All too often I see people respond to the same situation so differently.  For example, I frequently get questions about the benefit of food journaling.  Typically I do not recommend [...]

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Respecting Your Uniqueness: Are Low-Carbohydrate Diets Right for You?

December 14, 2009

I’ve been reading quite a bit recently since my foray into the food as medicine world, and one of themes that keeps hitting home to me is how we are all biochemically unique.  Yet when many of us set out to clean up our eating, we often try to follow guidelines that may not work [...]

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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 advocate [...]

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