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advantages of eating healthy

Good Grains for Gluten Free Living

Like many first diagnosed with Celiac disease, four years ago I struggled to figure out which grains I could eat. In my last semester of graduate school I learned that I was developing Celiac disease myself. While I had learned about the disease in school (after all, I was just a few short months from [...]

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Chemical Cuisine

Chemical Cuisine

Which would you rather eat – the dried apricot that has a slight tinge of brown, is a little dry and is showing signs of sugar crystals forming on the outside of the fruit… OR … the bright orange one – still vibrant despite the bag being opened months ago, plump and juicy with no [...]

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Really Reading the Ingredients

Really Reading the Ingredients

Want to know the single post powerful tool you have for making healthful food choices at the grocery store?  You probably already guessed from the picture above –it’s the ingredients list! About 60% of people completely ignore this little gem of information, usually tucked away in small print on the back of the package. I’m [...]

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What does it take to be a change agent in your community?

What does it take to be a change agent in your community?

  “Motivation” isn’t always about losing weight or “dieting.”  It can be about simply setting goals and working to achieve them. Sure, that could be about your own weight loss (in which case your motivation may be to “feel better”), but it could be about a whole range of other things. One of my personal goals, as [...]

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Reality Food

I began to think about reality TV the other day and how pervasive it has become in the menu of TV show offerings. The idea here is that these shows feature everyday people and documents their lives or puts them in specific situations and captures their reactions. A few years ago, I lived with a [...]

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