Healthy Eating
Finding Yeast
I don’t know about you, but I’m quickly realizing how much I take for granted the blessing of an abundant, accessible food supply being a normal part of life. Not much is normal right now. For the moment all of us are confined to our homes avoiding an enemy we can’t see. How strange it
Too Good To Toss
Do you give a little shudder when you throw away food that might have been perfectly fine a few days ago? I do and if I can get my husband to do it, my guilt isn’t quite so painful. Now I’m on an inspired mission. I’ve resolved to be more intentional about creatively working leftovers
Food For Thought: Why Fiber
Do you get enough fiber in your diet? Most of us would say, “maybe not”. The Adequate Intake (AI) recommendation is 25 grams a day for women and 38 grams for men. On average people may get as little as 17 grams per day and if on a low carbohydrate diet, maybe 10 grams. The
Organizing Your Way To A Healthy Diet
It’s February. Spring is a distant expectation. I’m a bit stuck inside and feeling now is the perfect chance to organize space, things, stuff. This includes my pantry and refrigerator. For the first time in my life, I have a pantry I can walk into and close the door, hide kitchen gear, stash my dish
Your Oral Health Begins With A Healthy Diet
Cake and ice cream at a birthday party triggered a small revelation in my seven year old daughter that became a family saying and tooth brushing habit. She informed us she had “sweaters” on her teeth. Maybe they’d go away if she brushed her teeth. From then on, announcing “sweaters” on our teeth meant we
Taming INFLAMMAGING: Rethinking Your Diet
Truth lies in the proverbial saying “you are what you eat” meaning to be healthy and fit one needs to eat healthy food. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, the famed French politician, gastronome and observer of his countrymen, wrote in his 1825 culinary tome, The Physiology of Taste, “tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you what
Sugar Substitutes: Challenging the Myths
Lately we’ve been hearing sugar substitutes, also called nonnutritive or artificial sweeteners, may promote weight gain and may cause diabetes or make it worse. This could be one of those confusing good-for-you, bad-for-you, nutrition stories. The safety of artificial sweeteners is a decades old debate. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is responsible for evaluating
An Apple A Day…
I’m rather passionate about apples, but I confess to not owning an apple tree. My passion gets as far as the grocery store where picking apples is happily relegated to a lovely display of the most popular apple choices full of good nutrition. Gala recently surpassed Red Delicious as the most popular apple. I’m personally
A Red Pepper and Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease
Growing up I had a cherished aunt who lived as an artist in the south of France. I loved her work. She had fascinating objects in her still life arrangements that repeated themselves throughout her paintings. One of those objects was a vibrant red pepper. I have one of her paintings that includes, you guessed