From the category archives:

Nutrition

Peanut Butter Recall!

February 15, 2007

Eeek! You may all want to look in your pantries for jars of Peter Pan or Great Value brand peanut butter. If any of your jars of either of these brands have the number 2111 on them, please take the product lids back to the store for a full refund.
You’ll never guess what [...]

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Power of Contrast

February 6, 2007

The people you spend the most time with profoundly impact your life. If they make more money than you, chances are your income will rise. If they make less than you, chances are your income will fall.
It seems to me the same principle holds true with physique. If the people you spend the most time [...]

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Going Back to Nature…Literally

January 31, 2007

For those who think I’m nuts for going on a diet of raw fruits and veggies, I have an interesting little article to share with you:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6248975.stm
This article chronicles a little experiment that was done in a zoo in the UK. They took nine people, aged 36-49, and literally put them in the zoo for [...]

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The 80-10-10 Diet.

January 30, 2007

Back in September, I mentioned that my husband and I had purchased a set of DVD’s called, “Making Friends with Your Food” by Dr. Doug Graham and his wife, Professor Rozi Graham. In this post, I also said that as soon as we were done watching the DVDs, we were going to embark on [...]

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Salad Bars, Part 2

January 24, 2007

Foods you may want to limit:
1. Salad dressings.
You may congratulate yourself with eating a salad full of low-fat lettuce, but just put a few drizzles of rich creamy salad dressing on there and you’ve just transformed it into a high fat meal. Besides that, most salad dressings have vinegar in them, which is [...]

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