Healthy Eating

There is a great article by Peggy Hall in the Fall 2000 Issue of Clean Eating magazine that explores the power of ending the food battle and befriending it instead. It is a message being paralleled in the Psychology of Eating teletraining with Marc David that I am currently taking, and is supported by my [...]

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“Far more indispensable than food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.”
~ Gandhi
Is there a recipe for healthy eating?
The quality of what you eat is important to your [...]

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I am immensely enjoying Food Network Healthy Appetite host Ellie Krieger’s cookbook, The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life. I couldn’t justify buying another cookbook given the size of my collection but it called to me from the bookstore shelves and reeled me in with its more than 200 great sounding recipes.
Just [...]

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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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I just finished a wonderful ‘non-diet’ book called The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss by Marc David that combines the best of The French Women Don’t Get Fat philosophy with the latest research on body biochemistry and the powerful mind-body connection. It’s complete nutrition for the body, mind and [...]

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Friday night I joined twelve women in a Reconnect with Food Candlelight Yoga Workshop led by dietician and yoga teacher, Beverly Price. The session began with a one hour yoga class where poses were held for what seemed to me an interminable amount of time and concluded with a one hour sharing circle complete [...]

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I have just finished Michael Pollan’s latest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto and all I can say is wow. It’s his follow up to his bestseller, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals that attempts to answer the question “What should I eat?”
He sums it up in his eater’s [...]

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One of the best ways to clean up our eating and improve our health is to eliminate the ‘clutter’ from our diets. This includes all the sources of ‘empty’ calories devoid of nutrition like soda, refined sugars, unhealthy fats and overly processed foods.
I recently read that junk food now makes up nearly one third [...]

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