The Truth About Dietary Fat? Maybe It’s All About Who You Ask
Wednesday, 16 August 2017
“Mom, in Harry Potter, Voldemort is a baddie, right?”
This is how it is with kids. Everything can be separated into two opposing extremes: goodie or baddie, right or wrong, truth or lie. It’s a simple way to view the world, and it’s enticing. The allure of the absolute. Unfortunately, in the adult world,...
- Published in Eating Healthy, Wellness
Lay It on Thick…With Sunscreen
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
One gallon.
We can all picture what this looks like, right? One of those big, plastic jugs of milk with the handle?
One gallon is the same as 128 fluid ounces. If you have a family of four, this means you should be emptying a one-gallon jug of sunscreen about every month if you’re poolside daily....
- Published in Wellness
The Training-Wheels Guide to Improving Family Nutrition
Monday, 22 May 2017
Sausages fried in butter. Sugar-coated cereal. Strawberry milk. Sometimes a toaster pastry. That was the breakfast that many of us in my generation routinely had each morning, and no one gave it a second thought. And if you did, you were probably in the minority; a “health nut.”
Superfoods: How can anyone stand this stuff?
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Learning About Cholesterol: A New Perspective
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
Cholesterol can’t swim, so it needs boats to help it get around inside our bodies. I learned this today.
I was looking up something about cholesterol for work and feeling like I’d done this a million times and read this same material a million times and was beating myself up a little that I couldn’t seem to keep it all straight....
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Delicious, Nutritious Quinoa: You Want Me to Try What?
Wednesday, 12 April 2017
“Eat it. It’s good for you.”
These words struck fear into my eight-year-old heart. That means it’s gross, because otherwise they’d have said to eat it because it’s yummy. Though I’ve left childhood behind me, when it comes to food, I suspect none of us have ever really let this youthful logic go.
Take quinoa (keen-wah) for example....
- Published in Wellness