10 Best Healthful Food and Cooking Books
In a recent blog post I wrote about the reasons information about nutrition and eating seems so confusing. The best way to guard against the huge amount of misinformation is to have your own sources of reliable information. As you begin to read and study more you will start to easily distinguish the helpful news and information from deceptive and misleading claims. To get started, here is a list of [...]
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Understanding Nutrition Fact and Diet Fiction
Knowing what foods are healthful these days can be a challenge. Should I eat certain types of fish because of their high levels Omega-3 Fats or avoid them because of their concentration of heavy metals such as mercury? Should I eat more fiber rich grains or will such carbohydrates just make me fat? Are “Free-range” chickens any better for me than those raised in confinement? These are the types [...]
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Healthy Eating: Mine Is Bigger Than Yours!
Pre-adolescent boys are famous for the game “Mine is bigger than yours” whether in reference to wagons or model airplanes the compulsion to make this comparison seems almost universal. As a former pre-adolescent boy and father of a 5-year-old son, I am a not worried by such behavior among children. My only concern is with this behavior being carried over into critical areas of adult life in counterproductive ways. I [...]
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Healthy Eating Is A Journey (Part 2)
I recently attended a holiday party hosted by an accomplished academic in the field of nutrition. More than half the guests were PhD’s in nutrition science or a health related area. As I glanced at the sizable waistlines and gorging around the buffet, I wondered why such incredibly talented and otherwise disciplined people struggle with their eating? What is it about eating that makes it different from other areas of life that [...]
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Healthy Eating Is A Journey
It’s a beautiful Saturday morning so you decide to take the family on a 35 minute trip to a nearby amusement park. You are 36 minutes into the road trip and everyone is anxious, wondering why you’re not there yet. By the time you get 45 minutes into the trip everyone is outright irritated by delayed arrival. What happened? There are two typical reasons for this unpleasant reaction. First of [...]
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Let’s Move
We can let’s our children be the first American generation with an average life expectancy that is less than the previous generation – Can we? Michelle Obama
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How To Lose Weight and Keep It Off: Healthful What? (Part 2)
Achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight is mostly about developing a healthy relationship with food. If you have ever tried using pills or potions to lose weight you know that they don’t work long-term. Likewise if you tried keeping up a fitness routine without eating properly, you know that’s like swimming uphill. This is why successful weight management starts with establishing a healthy relationship with food exemplified by a [...]
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How To Lose Weight and Keep It Off: Why Traditional Diets Don’t Work?
I grew up watching the people I loved struggle with diets. From my early experience, I learned that the idea of losing a large amount of overnight is a set-up do failure. Here are some of the reasons traditional diets simply do not work: 1) Diet goals are often based on unrealistic expectations. Most experts agree that a healthy and normal rate of weight loss is about 2-3 pounds per [...]
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Coming Soon!
Obesity, Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke are responsible for 50% of all deaths in America each year. All of these chronic diseases have been linked to “Lifestyle” and “Eating Habits”. “Eating Right” is a topic worthy of our ATTENTION NOW. As a Lover of great food and someone on the front lines of healthful eating, I would like of keep the discussion about Healthful Eating in the forefront over the [...]
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