
This Year Focus on what to ADD not RESTRICT

The Hidden Opportunity in Holidays
Don’t focus on results yet, just plant a couple of seeds. The holidays grant us a time of preparation before setting our goals for the next year… if we face this time with curiosity and healthy expectations versus guilt and wanting to put our heads in the sand until it’s all over. See if this […]

Wishlist: Essential Kitchen Gadgets
Your wishlist of essential kitchen gadgets for setting up any sized kitchen, on any budget. Many cooking frustrations in the kitchen can easily be solved with the right tools.

6 Tips for How to Nutritionally Survive the Holidays

Grilling Tips to Reduce Cancer-Causing HCA
Cancer-causing Heterocyclic Amines (HCA) form when meats and animal products (not fruits or vegetables) are heated at high temps that result in browning and charring (the “desired” crispiness of grilling). Animal proteins react with the naturally occurring sugar molecules in the meat to produce HCA compounds. Once ingested, your body’s enzymes activate HCA into compounds […]
Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants (sounds like) Do This. Shouldn’t Need Help. Mostly Easy.
How Pollan’s famous first line creates tension within the most earnest (and health informed) individuals trying to lose weight (and those trying to support them). Still Quoted, Still an Influence This post is not to critic or review the 2008 best-selling book “In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan. I respect the awareness this book […]