Mom always told you to eat your vegetables—and she was right. More and more research indicates that veggies are stellar for your health, helping to keep your heart healthy,a your eyes young,b and your mind sharp.cYet even though I know how nutritious they are—and even though I have a blog devoted to … [Read more...]
Get Healthy and Happy with Easy Hacks
Want to boost breast health, kick yeast to the curb, and protect your ticker? These posts are for you! Health tips and the latest nutrition research to help you feel like a new woman.
Got Weird Stuff in Your Pantry? Get Answers with NPR’s “Cook Your Cupboard” Project
This is for all you adventurous food shoppers out there—you ambitious connoisseurs of the obscure with big ideas and perhaps less-than-stellar follow-through. (You know who you are.)I, for one, fall squarely into this category. Not only because I'm a food blogger, but because I'm more of an "ideas" … [Read more...]
A Week of Overcoming Emotional Eating
Ah, emotional eating. Last week I talked the talk; this week I (attempted to) walk the walk.I stumbled a bit, shall we say. Monday, at least, was smooth sailing. My strategies were fresh in my head, I was well rested from the weekend, and I completely rocked my swim workout. So I had no problem … [Read more...]
7 Ways to Stop Emotional Eating
I've been a little stressed lately. Career decisions are clamoring to be made, my dog needs surgery but is too sick to get it right now, taxes need to be done, and hubby and I are trying to figure out something as basic as where to live for the next few years. So I've got a bit on my plate right … [Read more...]
Following Clinton’s Lead: A Plant-Powered Presidency?
I'd like to think Clinton's extolling the virtues of veggies...Photo credit: The White House from Washington, DC, (P071410PS-0349), via Wikimedia Commons Have you heard?Bill Clinton has adopted a plant-based diet: no meat, eggs, or dairy, and little added oil. Yes, this former fast food fan now eats … [Read more...]
A Day in the Veggie Life
I've always been fascinated by blog posts that chronicle what people eat in the course of a day. So here's my first contribution to that particular breed of post, from this past weekend. Since I didn't decide to start until lunchtime on Saturday (I was inspired by a trip to the farmer's market!), … [Read more...]
Eat Your Veggies Every Day, Keep Stupidity Away
From a 1917 U.S. Deptartment of Agriculture Leaflet (via 22 Words)Thanks to my sis-in-law Stephanie for calling my attention to these timeless words of wisdom! Apparently, the U.S. government wasn't nearly as politically correct in 1917 as it is today; you just wouldn't see such admirable, er, … [Read more...]
2011 Declared the Year of the Vegetable
It's official: vegetables are the food rock stars of 2011. So announced George Ball (okay, in so many words) in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal Monday, where he discussed the role of vegetables in helping curb childhood obesity. Of course, as chairman of the W. Atlee Burpee Company and … [Read more...]
I'm Lee, an RD thriving on a healthy plant based diet.