Who is more important to you than, well, you? Valentine's Day always involves matters of the heart, and today you might try thinking about your own heart health. But are you a commit-a-phobe, afraid to make that promise to yourself to treat yourself well? Put yourself first? Check in with yourself, and make sure that you're [...]
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Top 5 Healthy Tips for Super Bowl Sunday
You’re counting the days, and probably hours and minutes, until touchdown this weekend. But have you been counting the grams of fat and calories in your food, or better yet, the calories you may or may not be burning off on the big day? Here are a few tips for making your Super Bowl this [...]
Smart thinking for 2014
"Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach!" It is a familiar childhood lament I remember my mother bemoaning when time and time again I would take a plateful more of food than I could realistically manage to fit into my stomach. It looked so good sitting there in the pot, and my mouth would [...]
5 ways to survive the NaNoWriMo homestretch
It's mid-November, and only one week left to the National Novel Writing Month, 50,000-word book-in-a-month challenge. While I've recused myself from the typing frenzy this year, I've been in your shoes. The month threatens to come to a close and you are still thousands of words behind schedule. Will you make it? It means a [...]
Still demonizing fats – fair enough to ban?
The FDA looking to ban trans fats? Really? On one hand, the news is music to my ears. But when I really stop to think about it ... I feel like it's like opening Pandora's Box. Trans fats are dangerous, we know that. For decades, we've been artificially altering the chemical makeup of foods for [...]
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