Whether you’re trying to lose or gain weight, get more exercise, or improve some other aspect of your physical or emotional health, you probably are doing something nearly all of us tend to do. Cheat. Continue Reading
Category Archives: Food
Chase away colds (and flu)
Research has shown that most people follow a plant-based diet aren’t sick as often. And when they do get sick, their illness tends to pass more quickly. My husband and I are glad to be able to bear out the research. Continue Reading
Bones
This past Labor day I intended to work. I wanted to finish painting the front of our garage, a job I started some time in August (or was it July). Instead of finishing the job, I got a lesson I wasn’t sure I wanted. Continue Reading
Vegan barbeque
Last year my bank sent a postcard announcing “Member Appreciation” day and invited me—and all of their customers—to a BBQ. I went, but was disappointed. There were no plant-based foods at the event. Not even fruit. Continue Reading
Americans are eating more produce, sort of
According to a recent United States Department of Agriculture report, “Americans are consuming more vegetables and fruit than in 1970, [yet] the average U.S. diet still falls short of the recommendations in the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines.” Continue Reading
How to choose a new food
I’ve been helping a friend switch his diet from one focused on fast food to one that includes more plant-based foods. As we work together, I see some of the challenges many people face as they try to “eat healthier.”
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Is diabetes reversible?
I speak often of my bout with pre-diabetes. For me it was a warning and what led, in part, to my adoption of a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle. When I think about that time (now more than 5 years in the past) I can’t help feeling a little upset at the messages I heard. Continue Reading
Eat a Peach
Growing up in Wisconsin, we had a summer ritual. The family would pick buckets full of piecherries from Door County. Once we got them home we would pit, and pit, and pit them. Then my mom would bake some into cherry pies and freeze the rest for future pies and crisps. Here in Colorado I have a new ritual. Peaches. Continue Reading
On the road again
Whenever I travel, especially to areas where it is more difficult to find plant-based options for eating or I am surrounded by meat eaters and even vegetarians, I think about the obstacles to eating a healthier diet. Continue Reading
Plant-based on the road
I learned how to be cheap at a young age. Well, maybe frugal. Whatever word you use for it, I learned from the best. My dad. He could do vacations cheap and tasty.
When we traveled, six of us crammed into a sedan pulling a tent-trailer that was full of everything we needed for two weeks, including food and block ice to keep it cold. Continue Reading