With the Obamas on the healthcare case, Americans may find themselves thinking twice before ordering a Frappuccino or coffee cake at Starbucks. Buried deep within the Presidents health care reform bill there lays a mandate which requires big food chains to come up with the goods on their goods. This new federal law obligates restaurant chains with 20 or more outlets […] read more »
Lisa shared with us a beautiful recipe featuring avocadoes yesterday — a delicious high-fat item that’s oh-so-good for us. Her recipe comes right on the heels of the release of a Harvard study that confirmed what we and many other nutritionists have been saying for years — no fat is not the way to go. Healthy fat is. The study […] read more »
Spring has sprung in Vermont, and that means its maple syrup time. When the temperatures get warmer, the sap starts to run. And that means hundreds of maple sugar-daddies (and sugar-mamas) begin the mad rush to tap their maple trees in order to capture every delightful drop of amber-y goodness! Typically maple syrup is categorized as a simple carbohydrate, but […] read more »
You may have already heard about the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health initiative Meatless Monday. I know I’ve seen it floating around on Twitter but hadn’t really understood it was a campaign mounted by a prestigious health care institution to “reduce meat consumption by 15% to improve personal health and the health of our planet.”
It’s no great secret that my husband Jamie is an awesome cook. He shares my dedication to delicious, healthy food made with care, completely from scratch (as much as is humanly possible). However, when you are building a business, as he is, you don’t have all day to slave over the stove. This week’s recipe is one of Jamie’s favorite quick (yet from […] read more »
If you can, think back over the past week and try to list all the different grains you ate. I’ll wait……… What did you come up with? Could you count them all on one hand? Would it be the same for other food groups like fruits & vegetables? Granted variety in our food choices is affected by the seasons (somewhat), […] read more »
Who among the frequent readers of this blog hasn’t lost and gained weight numerous times? If you’re like many American women, this describes you. It certainly does me in my younger days when I was determined to lose weight. Which I did over and over again in between bouts of gaining it back. In professional parlance, this is called weight […] read more »
Not everyone needs to be gluten free but many people discover through a food as medicine or functional nutrition/medicine exploration of their health, that it’s key for them. So today’s post is a look at some gluten-free goings-on that caught our attention this week.
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 eating and giving ourselves permission […] read more »
The American Heart Association got a jumpstart on Heart Month (February) by announcing its new campaign “Today’s the Day.” The goal: Help prevent heart disease among women. It’s our #1 killer. Love some of their tips, which show up somewhat disguised as lines such as “Today’s the day I eat what I’d want my children to eat.” The New York […] read more »
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