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How to Get Started with Healthy Eating
How to Get Started with Healthy Eating I thought it might be helpful to share some ideas for substitutions for your favorite processed foods to illustrate how to get started with healthy eating. I’m very respectful of how hard it is to change eating habits as the big food companies design their “food” to be addictive and hard to resist. We make clean eating promises to ourselves, and they might last a few days. Then the cravings for bread, sugar, pizza etc. just become too much. We fall off the wagon and get mad at ourselves; too often, we just give up. This pattern feeds into the yo-yo dieting, lose-gain-lose-gain…
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New York State Law Mandates Mental Health Education
New York State Law Mandates Mental Health Education I was running an errand yesterday and was listening to NPR while I was driving. The discussion was about a new law in New York State that requires mental health education in school curriculum. They definitely had my attention. Did you know that among teens and young adults, suicide is second only to car accidents as the number one cause of death? Stunning! Also, they said that one in five teens will struggle with mental health issues, but less than fifty percent of them will seek help. Also, for fifty percent of the population, the onset of depression or anxiety is typically…
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What Does “Glyphosate” Mean to You?
What does “glyphosate” mean to you? Let me ask that another way…If you found out you were eating the key ingredient in the week killer Roundup (known as glyphosate), would you care? I hope the answer is yes. If you are eating many common breakfast cereals and bars, then you are ingesting glyphosate with your morning meal. I want to share with you an article I read today. In it the author, Arman Azad of CNN writes: “In August, a jury in San Francisco ordered Roundup’s manufacturer, Monsanto, to pay $289 million in damages to a school groundskeeper who argued that the glyphosate-based weed killer caused his cancer. A judge on…
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Perseverance…in diet and in life…it’s everything
Perseverance The topic of this post is a bit different than what I usually share. I want to address the topic of perseverance and share a recent personal story. Perseverance relates to all aspects of our lives including health and healthy eating. Staying on track with the best food choices is not always the easiest or the most popular way to go. I speak from personal experience as this weekend I attended a family event with great food, not all of which were the best choices for me. My solution in these cases is most often to sample a small bit of the foods that are delicious but that may…
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Growing up with Food
Growing up with Food To understand your current relationship with food, it’s helpful to think about how food fit in when you were growing up. Back in the 1950s and 60s when I was growing up, I realize it was a time of transition food-wise. I think it’s important for us all to remember our past and revisit growing up with food. Our family meals at home were of an English/northern European eating style. Our food was very traditional and, to be honest, not very interesting. My mom was a fantastic baker though, and desserts were always the high point of the meal! There was some kind of meat at…
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Exercise- It’s More than Just Weight Loss
Exercise- It’s More than Just Weight Loss Weight loss is the main reason people decide to exercise, but those who exercise regularly realize the benefits are much more than that. When you exercise, you’re releasing endorphins needed to be energetic and alert, so it’s accurate when we say, exercise- it’s more than just weight loss! When you exercise, you’re also helping to strengthen your heart muscle and improve circulation – two improvements that will help beat fatigue and energize your day! Improving your muscle tone will help you burn more calories. It’s a win-win way to feel and look better. Fatigue is a complaint doctors hear too often these days.…
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Why are We Overweight?
Why are We Overweight? Do you ever wonder why are we overweight as a nation… and so frighteningly overweight? Allow me to begin by saying, “It’s not your fault”. If you struggle with your weight, it’s not your fault. It’s not your fault you spend money on diet foods and diet programs that promise you the moon and may help you lose weight only to let you down while you watch yourself gain back what you lost. Most of the time, you gain back more weight than you lost before the diet. You eat less, you exercise more and you still gain weight. Women in their 40s and 50s think…
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New TV Episode of Thin Strong Healthy…Cod Dinner with Tomato Tapenade
Cod Dinner with Tomato Tapenade You’ll definitely want to check this out! We focus on the benefits of eating fish, but more importantly I share an easy, delicious recipe you will love! And…you can use the sundried tomato tapenade on more than just white fish! Take a look: Let me know if you try it and if you come up with other ways to use the tapenade. I can’t tell you how good it is in or on an ommellette! I’ve used it as part of the filling with mushrooms, onions and spinach and also as a topping on the finished work of art! Helping You Achieve Major Wellness in…
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Gut Health
Five Steps to Good Gut Health – Part 1 of 2 I want to share five different steps over the next two weeks that you can implement today to help you enjoy good gut health. Each of these steps independently will have a significant impact on your overall mental and physical well being, as they are intricately linked. Attempting to adopt too many steps into your lifestyle at once can feel overwhelming. My experience with my coaching clients is that too much at once tends to discourage people from moving forward. I want you to take it easy on yourself, and focus on one step at a time. Set goals,…
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Becoming Gluten Free
Becoming Gluten Free Me So many people have concerns about how gluten affects them. I hear from many of them, and one of the threads that comes through all the time is how confusing it all is. They’d like to reduce or eliminate gluten, but they don’t know who or what to believe and where to begin. To that end, I am teaching a simple two module course that will help answer questions and clear up a lot of this confusion. I call the course, “Becoming Gluten Free Me”, and I’ve designed it to help you understand and more importantly to take action! It will begin in April, and I…