Diet Category

Cake to coke?

My antennae are always up for information on diet and nutrition.  This has been a lifelong avocation of mine, probably because I hate to go to physicians and yet am a bit of a hypochondriac.  The closest I can come to describing this dilemma is to point you to Woody Allen’s movies, including Hannah and […]

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Habitus corpus

There are a lot of reasons to avoid developing some habits, but I think there is a place for establishing routines or conventions that confer greater peace of mind. In fact, I love creating (flexible) structure in my life. So, in the interest of describing rather than prescribing … Most of us have far more […]

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The apParent trap

One of the most important things a parent can do is plan for the lifelong health of their children. With Halloween right around the corner, I want to just remind people about the potential consequences of incompletely thought out decisions when it comes to what you allow your children to eat. It is bad enough […]

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Perfect pies

In the run-up to the holidays I can happily look forward to a few things.  One is knitting (and I will share about that this autumn) and the other is baking. I make the usual things that people who are addicted to carbs like, but pies above all.  It is funny too because, as much […]

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In the kitchen with 2 Chainz

I have not purchased a cookbook in years.  I think the last one I got was a Jamie Oliver book in a White Elephant  game at Christmas one year. Back when I was first out of school, I bought up every cookbook I could find and tried everything.  I really love ethnic food, exotic stuff […]

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