by Lauren Slayton | Nov 15, 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 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
A typical morning in the peaceful, easy Slayton household goes something like this. I bark requests (ok commands) while my children feign deafness and my husband tells me to calm down. Last week, as our departure time approached I looked at my shoeless son Myles and...
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...
