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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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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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Realwashing

After years of “functional food” being popular – people are rightly becoming increasingly skeptical of food being designed by scientists to be healthy.  More and more evidence is coming out supporting the idea that the body is incredibly sophisticated at picking out nutrients and vitamins.  No longer is a vitamin pill equal to an apple [...]

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