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advocates of healthy living

Jogging with My Son and How to No Longer Make Excuses

Jogging with My Son and How to No Longer Make Excuses

The term “No Excuses” is different for everyone. Some people like to yell it at others when they do not want to do something, such as workout or eat right. Some people use it as a way to motivate themselves through the day. Some people just like to say it for no apparent reason. For [...]

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3 Tips for Mindful Living

3 Tips for Mindful Living

For me, as with pretty much everything else in my world, arriving at real living has been a process. A very circuitous path. I started down this road close to nineteen years ago with nary an iota of healthy lifestyle awareness. I was an egocentric 20-something.  I valued being skinny over feeling fit.  I consumed [...]

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Change is Possible: Becoming an Advocate of healthy living

Change is Possible: Becoming an Advocate of healthy living

Oreos, Snackwell cookies, greasy potato chips, gravy, biscuits slathered with butter, and fried meats were a normal part of my everyday diet when I was morbidly obese. No one would have ever in a million years called me an ambassador or an advocate for healthy living. Nor would I have expected them to because my [...]

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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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