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It Happened This Week: Living to Eat, Intuitive Eating & Trust

July 16, 2010

Do you eat to live or live to eat?  The Wall Street Journal reviews research into why fatter folks might fall in with the latter camp.  We’d love to see research included that looks at the effects of deprivation on brain signals. Weightless blog interviews Christie from Honoring Health about intuitive eating and includes a [...]

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Learning Our Lesson: Forget Fake Foods for Healthy Weight Loss

June 28, 2010

I woke up the other day to a spot on a major morning television show featuring a weight loss “expert” who shall remain unnamed.  While the expert has no professional credentials, I don’t always see professional credentials as the be all and end all.  I do look for common sense and wisdom, however, and in [...]

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It Happened This Week: Dethroning Dessert, Strapless Bras, and A Biggest Loser Tells All

June 18, 2010

Diet blog wonders if doctors can fight obesity by teaching patients to cook. Lane Bryant announces a social networking site for plus-sized women. Would you join? Golda at Body Love Wellness has an exclusive three-part interview with Biggest Loser finalist Kai Hibbard about why the show gave her an eating disorder. This echoes Marsha’s post [...]

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It Happened This Week: Beth Ditto and Body Image from a Man’s Perspective

June 4, 2010

Honoring Health defends intuitive eating, and explains why it’s NOT another diet! Family Feeding Dynamics has tips on how to answer the question, “Mom, what’s a diet?” William Leith has a bold–if a bit long-winded–article on women and body image in the Telegraph…from a man’s perspective. What do you think of his take? It sounds [...]

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Another Hapless Birthday

April 13, 2010

Another ‘come and gone’ birthday has just rolled by. Once you’ve successfully hurdled the mid-century mark, who wants to celebrate, right? (I have to admit, I haven’t been aging as gracefully as I’d hoped). Well, yesterday I realized something.  I miss the celebration that was once so much a party of my birthday. I’m still a bit of [...]

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It’s Not Nice To Label…Or Is It?

March 30, 2010

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 [...]

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Raising Healthy Eaters: Feeding Teenagers

March 1, 2010

Today my youngest child begins his last year as a teenager.  He’s off at college and I’m not dealing with the day-to-day responsibilities of child rearing anymore.  But many of us still are, and I thought I’d celebrate Jake’s birthday by pointing readers to Ellyn Satter’s latest newsletter talking about the division of responsibility in [...]

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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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How to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain: Feeding Children

December 23, 2009

And now for the third question posed to me last week at the Mompreneur Twitter party. Q3:  I’m concerned about my children stuffing themselves with so many holiday sweets, they won’t eat the healthy meals I prepare.  Any tips? Children are great regulators of their eating if we set up their environment to support them.  [...]

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How to Avoid Weight Gain during the Holidays, Q2

December 22, 2009

Continuing on yesterday’s theme, here’s the second question that was posed to me during the Mompreneurs Twitter party last week. Q2:  I can’t resist Christmas cookies and eggnog.  If I indulge, how can I make up for it? First, stop thinking u have to make up for it. Our bodies are resilient. They adjust naturally [...]

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