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Re-thinking Your Drink
Last night while most of the country was watching the Super Bowl, I was learning about fructose metabolism. A lecture by Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist held my attention for over 90...
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Reads for Eaters
There has been an explosion of food and nutrition related books over the past few years. People ask me all the time what books to read to get up to speed with food. Not to overwhelm you, I taken my top...
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Girl Scout Cookies: Epic Fail
Now that the Girl Scout Cookie sales have started, I can’t sit by and stay silent about the atrocities that these well meaning scouts are innocently perpetrating on their families, their friends and...
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Sugar: Whats in a word?
Earlier this week, I wrote a guest post in The Slow Cook and the Better DC School Food blogs about sugar in schools. In this article, I barely scraped the surface of this issue. Sugars are not just...
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Dangerous Words
Yesterday, I wrote about the ambiguous nature of one word: sugar. The food industry and well meaning mainstream nutritionists have succeeded in confusing us. Is sugar good? Is it bad? I spend loads...
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Safer Lettuce is Simple!
Growing your own is easier than you think! Yesterdays news reported that tainted lettuce has sickened at least 19 people in Ohio, New York and Michigan, including students on three college campuses,...
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Makin’ Mayo
Mayonaise homemade from real eggs When putting together my purslane potato salad last night, I ran out of mayo. Hubby offered to zip out to the store and pick up a bottle, but to use store bought...
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The Food Industry’s Favorite Game: Whac-A-Mole
Whack-a-mole I do enjoy playing Whac-a-Mole when I bring my kids to the arcade. For those of you who don’t get out that much to participate in this sort of amusement, the Whac-A-Mole machine consists...
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Twinkies for Weight Loss!
Don't kid yourself! Twinkies are not a weight loss panacea! I’ve received numerous emails and Facebook requests about the big news: a nutrition professor at Kansas State University has allegedly lost...
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Teenage Rebellion and Junk Food
Rebellion is most certainly part of a teenager’s job description. Its part of our kid’s journey to become independent adults. As a parent of two teens and a twenty year old, I’ve endured my share of...
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Food is Healthcare
Our current system of health care has no incentives to keep us healthy. Disease is profitable to the system, health is not. What we’ve got is more of a disease maintenance business in which insurance...
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