Cooking With Your Kids; What A Fabulous Idea!

I love the Wednesday edition of the NY Times for one reason- the dining section.  Filled with recipes, great NYC restaurants to check out and at least two or three interesting articles, it’s a must-read for me each mid-week. I was particularly happy about an article that was on the front of this section yesterday, […]

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One Simple Thing

Even if you’re not completely Paleo, or if you are but you’re significant other, kids or family are not, there are small measures you can take to make everyone’s diet a little more healthy in little doses. There are many ‘simple things’ that you can do that would fall into this category. Being the kale-lover […]

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Well Done, Runner’s World!

I was incredibly happy to see in the February, 2012 Runner’s World issue an article about eating kale (in their column, Eat This Now), as well as a piece about trying different, new veggies (in Alternate Sides). Such a refreshing (Paleo) change from the typical, boring, old recommendations to ‘eat a peanut butter bagel before […]

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So Many Approaches…Who’s Right?

The China Study.  The Mediterranean Diet.  The Paleo Diet.  Who’s right?  It won’t be remotely surprising to anyone who knows my position which diet I’d naturally support but what about the research and science behind the other two methods?   I should mention that I chose these two approaches to compare to Paleo living only […]

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Food As A Reward? Bad Idea, Unless You’re A Dog.

Never fails to amaze me when I hear commentary about people ‘being good’ on their eating plan for a mere handful of days or weeks and then deciding to ‘reward’ themselves with a trip to the ice cream shoppe or pizza parlor. Is that any different from quitting smoking cigarettes and then deciding that once […]

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And Next On My Speaking Schedule…

I will be speaking this weekend at the LA Fitness Expo, about Paleo eating, giving a talk entitled, The Diet You Were Born To Eat. I’m on at 11AM in the South Hall of the LA Convention Center and will then be a part of the Real Food Panel at noon, to entertain Q&A and […]

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Progress on School Lunches?

Let me start by saying that apparently, pizza still counts as a vegetable.  Not kidding. “Millions of schoolchildren in the United States will see more fruit and vegetables and less fat on their lunch plates under new U.S. Department of Agriculture standards unveiled Wednesday aimed at improving child nutrition and reducing childhood obesity”, begins a […]

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No, You Are Not ‘Doomed’ to be Fat

I was pleasantly surprised after reading the headline article in today’s Livestrong.com ‘s newsletter.  Nice, for a change!I saw the headline and prepared for what would likely be another “woe-is-me, I have ‘fat genes’ and there’s nothing I can do” diatribe.Not so much!Rather, the author shares that despite being overweight as a child, the message, […]

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