If you’ve been hear awhile, you know that I don’t encourage “dieting” – following a restrictive diet plan for a specified period of time until you achieve a health goal. Why? Because that isn’t sustainable. I want you to create a “diet” for your life, a plan you can follow all the time. Then when …
Today is National Walk Your Dog Day. We don’t have a dog for a multitude of reasons. When one of my daughter’s asks for a dog, I tell her she got a baby brother. So today, I walked said baby brother. We both enjoyed the fresh air. With it being American Heart Month, does walking …
Today is National Drink Wine Day. Drinking wine has often been reported to have cardioprotective effects – meaning it helps prevent heart disease. The question is, what is the science behind that and does it hold up? The question began with something called the French Paradox, which has been seen in some other European countries …
Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday. For much of the Christian world, this begins Lent, a 40 day period of fasting from certain “luxuries” and showing greater devotion to God. This is seen as a representation of Christ’s fasting for 40 days and a preparation for Easter. Growing up, I frequently remember friends giving up chocolate or …
I read a couple interesting research articles recently related to nutrient claims on foods and whether that correlated to actual changes in the foods. Many of us remember years ago how often the “reduced fat” version of some foods actually had MORE calories due to the added sugars, etc they put in to improve the …
February is American Heart Month, with Wear Red Day (a day for increasing awareness of heart disease in women) this Friday, February 5, 2021. Coincidentally, today is Dark Chocolate Day. I thought this was a good day to discuss any potential health benefits from dark chocolate as it often gets billed as a “superfood” or …
Even in the middle of this crazy pandemic time, I feel like summer is still fairly busy at our house. Even if we aren’t going as many places, we keep busy cleaning, reading, playing in the yard, riding bikes, etc. That means by dinner time, none of us are in the mood for a big …
I’ve seen quite a few parents share lofty goals of things they’d like to teach their kids during this time of staying at home. Teaching kids how to cook frequently shows up on that list. As this period of staying at home has gone on, I’ve also seen most of those people post that they …
I like to keep posts fairly short and sweet around here. Especially right now, I often don’t have the world’s greatest attention span. Small steps help me. I hope you enjoyed my tips last week and found them helpful. Here are a few more tips for eating healthy while staying safe during this pandemic. 1. …
Pandemic life shouldn’t be THAT different than my regular life. I’m generally home with 3 of my 4 kids everyday anyway. But trying to get a good schedule and routine where I have time for posting here is harder than I anticipated. Also, I want to make sure things I am posting right now are …
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