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Managing PCOS

Foodie Friday Video: Healthy Snack Ideas that Satisfy

April 13, 2012

One key to managing hunger and disordered eating is to have a few ideas for healthy snacks. Letting yourself get too hungry is a major trap if you’re aiming to become a normal eater. Once you get too hungry, eating rich processed foods (a bag of chips is pretty easy to grab and go, after [...]

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Healthy Eating, Deprivation & the Right Choice

March 23, 2012

It’s a debate that’s gone on since the beginning of “non-diet.”  The question of whether people respond best to a structured approach to eating that helps get their bodies back into balance so they can better sense their internal cues to guide them in healthy behaviors, or whether “permission to eat everything and anything and [...]

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What Spring Brings

March 22, 2012

I can’t let this week go by without commenting on the absolutely gorgeous weather we’re having in Vermont.  Temperatures ranging in the high 60s, low 70s, sunny, clear skies, the snow is melting, the streams are running.  It’s just beautiful. Spring has truly brought with it all that it’s famous for — warm weather, feeling [...]

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Redefining Normal, Then Becoming It

May 17, 2010

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 [...]

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Omega-6 Hunt

March 31, 2010

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 [...]

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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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Meals, Snacks & Your Metabolic Rate

December 27, 2009

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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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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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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It Happened This Week: PCOS, Exercise for Healthy Bones, Magazine Advice & Making Changes

November 13, 2009

Monika Woolsey, registered dietitian and founder of the inCYST network for women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), has spent the week here at our women’s healthy weight loss program leading our first-ever intensive week-long program for managing PCOS.  Monika also blogged this week about why living an anti-inflammatory lifestyle is important for healthy skin. Moving [...]

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