I'm feeling my weekend of less-than-stellar meals this morning. Actually, I started feeling them Saturday morning when I woke up with puffy eyes and generally feeling off. I was out of town, and while we thought we were choosing good restaurants to dine in, we were wrong. Friday night's dinner was particularly bad, both in taste and quality. Saturday's lunch […] read more »
‘Food as Medicine’
It Happened This Week: Green Tea, Eating Your Sunscreen & Dieting Daughters
Have you been drinking green tea to speed weight loss? If so, read what the LA Times has to say about the claims. Summer may be coming to a close but there's still plenty of sun in our future. And that means, of course, that we still need to watch out for those damaging rays. The good news: What we […] read more »
Changing for Me, Not for Others
A component of our new Food As Medicine Program at Green Mountain is food sensitivity testing. We use LEAP (Lifestyle Eating and Performance) MRT (Mediator Release Testing) to assess for food and food-chemical sensitivities. People experience a wide range of symptoms from food sensitivities, the most common of which are headaches, migraines, IBS, diarrhea, and fibromyalgia. It's so interesting seeing the […] read more »
It Happened This Week: Detox!
It's been so busy at Green Mountain this week, I haven't done anything about today's post. And as I write this, I sit in a hotel room, waiting in anticipation for a conference to begin on Understanding Biotransformation & Recognizing Toxicity. It's part of my continuing education in functional nutrition/medicine that is giving us at Green Mountain more tools to […] read more »
Redefining Normal, Then Becoming It
It’s interesting how 29 degrees is warm in February in Vermont, yet bone-chillingly cold in November or May…and bone-chillingly cold in Texas and other parts south any time of the year. It’s all in what we get used to. The same idea can be applied to our behaviors around food. What do we think of as normal? Careful attention to […] read more »
Healthy Cooking Thursday: Fun with Fiddleheads
It’s that time of year again, the small window in which Vermont’s forests are flooded with the curling fronds of ferns known as fiddleheads. A beauty to behold in the woods, these ferns are also pretty darn tasty. Usually found bordering lakes, streams, and bogs, fiddleheads can also be found in markets for about a week or so in the areas […] read more »
What The Heck Is Self-Acceptance
Last summer Karen C.L. Anderson of the blog Why Weight: A Real Life “Before” and After Story shared on A Weight Lifted a story of her personal journey towards self-acceptance. Her post today looks at how things have changed in a little less than a year. What a difference a year makes…. We’re excited for Karen because she has moved […] read more »
Developing a Healthy Relationship with Your Kitchen
I had a wonderful weekend at home. My schedule of late has been nothing but travel. But this weekend, I spent my time puttering, trying to put some order to the chaos of my home, which includes piles of paper that define my home working area and which continually encroach on other areas. While I did that, my husband cooked.
Organic or Not Organic, That is the Question
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 how the organic standards address […] read more »
Omega-6 Hunt
Everyone and their brother is on the omega-3 bandwagon lately. If you are not taking an omega-3 fatty acid supplement yourself, I bet you know someone who is. Many people have been trying to increase their omega 3 fatty acid intake to get the health benefits this essential fat offers, however not everyone realizes that the other essential fatty acids, omega-6′s needs […] read more »
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