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Weighing In

Is It Any Wonder? Diet Advice from the Past

August 24, 2010

My daughter Lesley was at Green Mountain for the past month, going through our women’s wellness program.  When she wasn’t in class or out on a hike or other fun fitness activity, she pitched in with good cheer and willingness to do whatever needed to be done at a moment’s notice.  As anyone who runs [...]

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Healthy Snack Ideas

August 11, 2010

Sometimes participants of our healthy weight loss program  at Green Mountain are surprised by the fact that we have snacks available frequently.  Snacking can be a strategy that helps us manage between-meal hunger and makes dealing with main meals a little easier.  I always get requests for a list of healthy snack ideas, so I thought [...]

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How Size Acceptance Promotes Health

August 9, 2010

Social rejection may increase inflammation in the body.  Or so is the implication of a small study out of the University of California at Los Angeles that found higher levels of inflammatory markers among test subjects who had undergone simulated social rejection.  Which got me to thinking about social rejection of fat people, many of [...]

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Changing for Me, Not for Others

August 4, 2010

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.  [...]

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Ode to the Potato Chip

July 19, 2010

The poor maligned potato chip.  It has such a bad reputation yet it’s a food that’s made a big difference in helping me eat healthy. Not just any old potato chip either.  It has to be Lay’s.  I have my standards.

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Why Calorie Counting Doesn’t Work: A Rant

July 12, 2010

News flash:  Many Americans are clueless of how many calories they do or should eat. This according to a headline in USA Today, based on a recent survey of over 1,000 Americans. My question:  who cares? It’s irrelevant whether Americans are clueless about calories.  Because trying to know how many calories we do and “should” [...]

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Turning off the TV for Health & Healthy Weights

June 23, 2010

The more I think about it, the more I’m inclined to recommend getting rid of our TVs, or at least using them less.  Now that said, I’ll admit I’d be the biggest hypocrite in the world if I told other people to stop watching TV completely, because I definitely use mine on a daily basis.  [...]

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Strategies for Healthy Eating: Sharing the Joy of Food

June 14, 2010

Last week I was on a panel discussion that took place after a screening of Food, Inc. If you haven’t seen the documentary yet, put it on your list of things to do soon.  It’s disturbs me more each time I see it.  Not that I want you to be disturbed, but it will make [...]

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Continued Worries about The Biggest Loser & Its Spawn

June 8, 2010

I think The Biggest Loser just ended for the season.  I don’t watch the show but it’s kind of hard not to hear about it. I don’t watch it for reasons that Edward P. Tyson, MD, a physician who specializes in treating eating disorders, outlined recently in a listserv discussion.  I know his concerns aren’t [...]

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Sitting Out The Summer — A Diet From Fun?

May 25, 2010

It’s ironic that so many of us yearn for old man winter to take a hike, only to trade in some low-grade depression with our disappointment over the decision to sit out another summer. There’s no bigger bummer than sitting in your house all summer long because you feel fat. Yet year after year, too many women refuse to enjoy [...]

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