As anyone who shares the love of cooking may have found out the hard way, photographing the dishes we prepare is an art in and of itself. How many times have you taken a picture of a beautiful meal you’ve made, only to find out that the guacamole looks brown, the salmon looks dry and […]
Read More ›Professor Tim Noakes was charged with unprofessional conduct after Johannesburg dietitian Claire Julsing Strydom, then president of the Association for Dietetics in SA (ADSA), laid a complaint against him for two tweets in which he told a breastfeeding mother that meat and veg were good first foods for infants, according to a recent article[1]. Noakes, […]
Read More ›Ouch- touchy subject, right? Despite the fact that over two-thirds of the US population is now overweight[1] and the trend continues on the rise, we’re still a fat-phobic society[2]. And while it’s certainly the case that bodies come in all shapes and sizes, where’s the boundary between accepting one’s own body and hiding behind the […]
Read More ›What are your plans for Sunday? If you’re like 114.4 million Americans who made the 2015 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks the most watched event in American TV history[1], you’ll be doing some of that very same epic viewing this Sunday, too. But before you settle into that couch bedecked […]
Read More ›Hang on a sec; I’m not suggesting you eat your dinner on a bowl on the floor, or that you invite your fur child to join you at the table. I’m talking food prep! I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that so many people seem to assume that cooking food for their dogs is an […]
Read More ›Can Fast Food be healthy? Yes. If chefs Roy Choi and Daniel Patterson have a say in the matter! In an article in last week’s LA Times, there was an inspiring piece about something we need to see a lot more of: fresh healthy food being made accessible in areas known as food deserts. Food […]
Read More ›Aside from celebrating it by giving your loved one heart-shaped chocolates, what are you doing to protect your ticker? In all seriousness, tuning in to heart health is a top priority. Uncontrolled high blood pressure is a leading cause of heart disease and stroke as more than 67 million Americans have high blood pressure[1]. Hypertension […]
Read More ›Have you ever had a moment to walk in someone else’s shoes? Really, really sit in his or her space and get a sense of how someone else whom you may be familiar with in general terms, but didn’t actually realize how little you know about what that might be like is? I had just […]
Read More ›Sounds great, doesn’t it? What do you think of when you read this phrase? I’d like to say I think of crisp lettuces, fresh from the garden, a homemade all veggie juice or perhaps a raw kale salad with some wild salmon sashimi. Notice what all of the above have in common? No packages. So […]
Read More ›A sprawling hillside with cows grazing in the foreground and an acres-long plot of land with every veggie you could imagine… the mere thought of the image is calming and relaxing. But the reality of actually maintaining a garden of that magnitude- eek! How could one go about undertaking such a huge responsibility? Even more […]
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