by Lauren Slayton | Nov 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
Every year, around this time, I attend the Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo organized by the American Dietetic Association. Part of the conference involves seminars on various topics in nutrition, the other part is the expo. The expo is a giant, generally...
by Lauren Slayton | Nov 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
November is National Diabetes Month. Perhaps you are not one of the 24 million people in the US with Diabetes. For this reason, maybe you don’t give diabetes much thought. What if I told you. at the rate we’re at 1 in 3 children born in the U.S. may have...
by Lauren Slayton | Nov 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
This is a guest post by Melissa O’Shea aka Market Melissa It’s already November which means Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away. I never understood the logic behind using this day to gorge ourselves with lots of fatty food. Maybe it is because I am a...
by Lauren Slayton | Nov 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
It’s November first today. A few of you may recall, when I set my resolutions that I mentioned I’d follow up on my progress on the 1st of each month. The good news is that I am fairly content in my results having run Chicago, started yoga (which I now would say I...
by Lauren Slayton | Oct 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
All this Halloween talk has made me realize something I’ve probably known for a while. There are sweets I like. I mentioned Wednesday that I liked Mounds’ bars. I also like caramels, lemon meringue pie, crystallized ginger and dates. My mother used to give me...
