May 2008

T his simple salad has become a recent favorite around our house. I can’t seem to get enough since first making it at The Conscious Gourmet Cooking Retreat I attended in Sedona with my sister last month. All of the food was delicious, but this was a revelation — how can something so [...]

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Why Yoga? What makes it so special?
The truth is I don’t understand completely how yoga works, how it has done what it has for me. I know that it has been a constant companion through good and bad - sickness, health, happiness, sadness, divorce, death, marriage - and my life is better [...]

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I continue to experiment with healthy muffin recipes. The key for me is finding that perfect balance between taste and health. I’m not a fan of artificial sweeteners and hate those rubbery fat-free, sugar-free, taste-free concoctions out there. I don’t want cake masquerading as a muffin either. I prefer something a bit hearty [...]

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This is another great healthy muffin recipe that is adapted from The Conscious Gourmet Cooking Retreat I attended in April. It takes a little more work — grating carrots and apples — than is ideal for a lazy cook like me. But it makes a big batch — 18 muffins — that freeze [...]

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Commercially prepared muffins can be real diet disasters. More cake than muffin, they are usually huge (3 to 4 servings) high in calories, and full of unhealthy ingredients. A single-serving muffin, the size of one you would make at home in a standard 12-cup muffin pan, can fit into a healthy eating plan, [...]

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There’s an interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal called, Putting an end to Mindless Munching. According to the article, Mindful Eating, the art of slowing down and paying attention to what you are eating, is being studied at several academic medical centers and the National Institutes of Health as a way to combat eating [...]

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Does our clutter make us fat? Simplification and organization expert Peter Walsh thinks so. This is the topic of his book, Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?: An Easy Plan for Losing Weight and Living More.
He makes a strong case for the link between excess stuff and excess body weight. [...]

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After locating a donut baking pan at our local kitchen shop Saturday, I decided to make the healthy whole wheat donuts I mentioned last week for breakfast yesterday. Fortunately, I doubled the recipe and made a dozen because they turned out perfectly and my donut loving Dad devoured four himself!
They satisfied my donut craving [...]

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Just two nights ago, I expressed the desire to find a healthy donut recipe. Donuts were a favorite treat growing up but they no longer fit my approach to healthy eating and living.
My dad, who is currently visiting from Florida, had just returned from the market with six raised glazed donuts, a bag of [...]

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