Healthy Eating

Chris Brogan and The Challenge

My bet with Chris Brogan is on which of us will lose more inches around the abdomen. My strategy will be simple menu planning and increasing activity. He has a girlfriend who is a personal trainer and nutritionist. Here is an example of how I will meet the challenge.

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Stop Protesting and Start Cooking

When a food blogger protests against Kraft for Mac N Cheese – they are hypocrites. We have something better- its called a kitchen – learn how to make real food, teach your kids to make real food- and that is far better than getting 200,000 petitions.

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Hospital Cafeterias: they should be a Place of Healing

A hospital cafeteria should not peddle junk food. A hospital cafeteria should be a place of healing and rehabilitation. It is time to change how hospitals view their cafeteria – it should be viewed as a place to teach patients to be healthy by teaching them how t and what to cook.

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Pigs and GMO

The headlines: pigs that ate genetically modified foods had more stomach issues that those pigs who were fed non genetically modified foods. Sadly, the headlines were incorrect

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GMO Part 3: Allergies

The rise of allergies – is GMO responsible? What are allergies, and the immune response? What is done to insure that allergenic proteins are not in our food supply?

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Is Organic Food More Nutritious- Guest Post

When organic farming began it was a movement about eating healthier and being conscious about our environment. The new laws have watered down the meaning of organic for many of us, but the question remains- should we purchase organic foods?

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What is Really in Juice Concentrate

What do you think of when you see that a company has put “juice concentrate” into your drink. You would be surprised. What they do is simply extract the sugar, and this means what you are drinking is a product from some oranges, or grapes, or whatever juice they say.

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The Bad Fat isn’t Bad and the Good Fat isn’t Good

President Eisenhower could not have been more mad. He had followed his cardiologists recommendations to the letter but his cholesterol was higher than before. Turns out they were wrong about saturated fat. Here is the Presidential story about saturated fat – and what we know now.

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Mummies & Eskimos with Heart Disease: it isn’t Modern Diets that are the Problem: The People of St. Paul

Many diets are based on the false premise that the cave-men or early man, had great diets without chronic disease. Turns out they had plenty of heart and vascular disease, as a recent study showed. Reminded me of going to St Paul, in Alaska- a place where they still live like they did hundreds of years ago- but just a bit better.

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