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Nutrition

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 [...]

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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 a [...]

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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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Salad Bars, Part I

January 22, 2007

People tend to think of a salad bar buffet as a healthy place to eat. I certainly enjoy eating at salad bars because they do have good options and my family eats at our local one often. But to be honest with you, I think that most people are fooled into thinking that as long [...]

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Physical Activity When You're Homebound

January 18, 2007

Even though I’ve spent the last several years very interested in diet and nutrition and doing much research on those topics, I’ve recently come to realize that I have completely missed the mark on the big picture of health myself. I am a fairly sedentary person. I stay at home with my kids, do not [...]

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