When I was a kid, my mom urged me to eat my peas because “there are children starving in Africa.” Like most kids, I would have been all too happy to ship my peas over there, and didn’t understand the underlying concept of “you don’t realize how lucky you are.” Today, I was scanning Google […]
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You have a choice: eat Nutrient Rich and greatly increase your chances for a healthy life, or eat the standard American diet and take drugs to combat the results. Aside from the obvious difference between prevention and treatment, there’s another problem with drugs that is making the news more and more: nasty side effects. Today
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Cookie Monster, everybody’s favorite addict, is going Nutrient Rich. He’s returning for the show’s 36 Season this week calling cookies “sometimes foods” and teaching kids to “eat your colors,” presumably referring to fruits and vegetables and not Keebler Chips Deluxe with M&Ms. A couple of comments: First, this is just one more sign of the
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The New York Times reported today that drug manufacturers are pulling out all the stops to find a drug that can successfully treat obesity. Over 200 drugs are in various stages of the pipeline, and include such entries as a nasal spray that contains a synthetic form of the protein that tells us we’re full.
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Well it’s simple, you take time out from your cerebrally crazy day to enjoy food preparation, or gathering (shopping and eating out too) and you get a chance to rest your mind, and rejuvenate doing something that is fundamental to living. This is one of the reasons, the one thing you don’t want to entirely
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Eating a whole foods, organic “Nutrient Rich” diet, one that is nutrient dense and calorically normal, and saying you’ll do so, is not the challenge you’ll face when deciding to Eat Better, Not less. The challenges are as follows…(note these are challenges, I didn’t say obstacles or blockades) just challenges that will soon disappear. #1
Down to Earth, I overheard three 30-something girls talking about weight loss; about what they were eating and about all the troubles they were having. Little did they know, becuase to them they were merely eating at a chic place, that if they ate the food they ordered 80-90% of the time their issues would
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Is learn about places that serve foods that meet your standards and preferences. This is something we naturally do, no matter how we eat, but when it comes to Nutrient Rich (given nutrient poor food is still more common)you want to take special notice. I was out with Jon Hinds, master trainer at MyTrainer.com, the
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Alzheimer’s researchers are now saying that the same risk factors for heart disease and stroke also increase the risk for various forms of dementia. That is, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, excess weight, and lack of exercise. The China Study went into this in some detail, but yesterday the news hit the New York Times.
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Part the nutritional rave these days is the energy density of the foods we eat. Instead of focusing on the nutrient density, some valueable, yet less than profound books like Volumetrics is focusing on the energy density of a food. The only problem is when you shift your focus from nutrient density which is inversely
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