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Lose Weight With The Blue Plate
When we think about factors that affect our appetite, stress, sleep and exercise may come to mind. Each of these can influence hunger but so can something else you may not think as much about. Our eating is impacted by our eating environment and particularly...
Color Me Carcinogenic
On Thursday I am giving a nutrition talk at a preschool in Manhattan. I plan to cover a few topics: organics, healthy snacking and vitamins. When talking about snacks for kids and vitamins I find it impossible to ignore the topic of food dyes. Certain artificial...
Go Forth and Eat Burgers
When it comes to healthy eating I feel beef is a bad word. Wild salmon, kale and berries go along gathering dietary accolades while beef sits in the corner. While I’m not here pushing a beef-based diet I would caution you not to lump all beef in one category....
Non-Religious Lent for All
I love Lent. This sounds odd with good reason. First, as I’ve mentioned before, with the exception of culinary traditions, I am areligious. Second, my birth religion was not Catholicism but even I know that Lent is a time of sacrifice. So why the love? I love Lent...
Cooking Fish Sans Smell
Ichthyophobia is the fear of fish. This applies to eating fish or seeing dead fish. Galeophobia is the fear of sharks. I propose urban pescephobia the extreme fear of cooking fish in small apartments due to the potentially intense, traumatizing and lingering odor....
The Secret Ingredient for Weight Loss
You have a big presentation to give for work. You have prepared well but are a little anxious about how it will go. You picked out an outfit to wear and feel pretty good after all you’ve been working out and eating well, you’re trying. The morning of your presentation...
10 Ingredients That Make Healthy Food Exciting
One of my nutrition pet peeves is when people assume health eating is boring and bland. In order to...
Thinism
“You’re so fat, you must eat a lot.” Are you cringing? You might be because nobody with a speck of sensitivity would every utter those words. On Friday I read a post on Erica Sara’s blog that got me thinking. Erica wrote about a recent experience that was rather...
Foodtrainers' Favorite Ingredient for Quick Weeknight Dinners
I was Indian in a past life. I must’ve been. That’s the only explanation I can think of for my love (bordering on obsession) of Indian food. I love Vindaloo and Saag and Tandoori anything. I love the okra and eggplant at Indian restaurants. I went on...
Foodtrainers’ Favorite Ingredient for Quick Weeknight Dinners
I was Indian in a past life. I must’ve been. That’s the only explanation I can think of for my love (bordering on obsession) of Indian food. I love Vindaloo and Saag and Tandoori anything. I love the okra and eggplant at Indian restaurants. I went on...
Since When is Dessert Everyday?
Not to sound creepy but I’ve been watching you. It’s late at night; you’re cleaning the kitchen or just arrived home from a dinner out. Perhaps the kids are asleep. It’s quiet. You feel a little tired but there’s something that needs to happen before you go to...
Moms Work More, Kids Weigh More?
I love a good lead. I was sitting at my desk early one morning, preparing for clients, when I received an email with the following in the subject line “I look forward to you debunking this (because I think it’s crap).” Now if I love a good lead, I love a good...
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