5 Quick Tricks to Reform Your Comfort Food Favorites

Who wouldn’t be a healthy eater if you could have things like cheesy tacos and lasagna, creamy soups, comforting casseroles and even pizza? Dream no more! With a few recipe reform tricks, almost any dish can be “health-ified.” And they won’t taste like insipid diet foods that lack flavor other than a lot of added … Read more

Facing Down the Mutants: What’s Your Backup Plan?

14 Questions to Ponder and Ideas to Build a Solid Backup Plan As the Delta invasion barrels towards us, conversations swirl with anxious questions about who’s vaccinated and who’s not and why not. But are our own houses in order? Do we ourselves have a good backup plan to face down the Delta mutant–or whatever … Read more

COVID Confusion–One helpful thing you can do

Confused about COVID? Seems like there are a lot more questions than answers about exactly what happens when the virus gets into the human body. Clearly, it’s really, really complicated. That’s probably because the human body is really, really complicated. Read studies on practically any health or nutrition topic and they are just as complex. … Read more

Are you missing the point of food and eating?

Calories. Are they lurking in your brain? Not actual calories, of course, but worries about calories? In other words, whenever you eat something, does calorie anxiety get rousted from the recesses of your brain and start making you uncomfortable: Wow, I bet there are a lot of calories in this _______________. I wonder how many … Read more

Better Breakfasts for Beating the Blood Sugar Blues [VIDEO]

Trying to cut calories and save time by skipping breakfast?  It seems like an easy and harmless way to “save” on calories. You don’t have time for breakfast anyway, and it will be lunchtime before you know it. What could be wrong with the idea? Actually there are 8 Big Reasons why it’s a bad … Read more

Why to Love Food Restrictions–and even create your own!

  A running shoe company (Adidas, I think) used to have a “No Bounds” marketing campaign.  The idea was to encourage runners to break through barriers and boundaries–not only physical but mental, too. It was a great idea for running–and many other pursuits, too.  But not for eating.  When it comes to eating, boundaries can … Read more

Healthy Eating: Afraid of Giving Up Your Food Favorites?

Isn’t it crazy that food can cause actual fear? Yet for many of us, the thought of “health-ifying” our diet does indeed cause at least an undercurrent of consternation, anxiousness, maybe despair. But what if it isn’t just about the food . . . and what if there’s an easier solution than sacrifice? Obviously we … Read more

Does eating lots of salads = being a healthy eater?

The 4 dangers of “Salad Thinking” People often tell me they eat salads all the time and wonder if that isn’t a sure sign they’re eating healthy. Certainly, eating salads is a good thing–and it sure beats having a side of Cheetos for dinner!  But is it enough to automatically qualify you for “healthy eating … Read more

The Scariest Part of the Scariest Disease

Disease is a frightening thing. We’ve all heard of someone hit out of the blue with a devastating diagnosis–so it’s not uncommon to harbor an undercurrent of fear: Will I be next? While all chronic diseases are scary, it feels like Alzheimer’s is uniquely so, with its years-long, downward spiral, to a place of confusion, … Read more