Tag: health
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Blogpost: Learning to Speak the Plant Based Language
Learning to speak a new language can be very difficult especially if that language was selected for you. I took German in college because I was told that it was was a good language for chemistry majors. The most fun I had with the language was translating letters that a family friend used to…
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Blogpost: If we are not improving we are declining. There is no standing still.
I believe everything happens for a reason. Even if it appears painful, there is something to be learned. It happened to me, dead on, full force blow to the ego. I am a huge believer in movement, mobility, and flexibility. I am writing this before I go out for a run to be followed by…
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Noodles or noodles? Do you really know what you are purchasing?
My mother and I agree that a good cook can make something out of nothing. Translated, you look in the fridge or even better think about what simple ingredients might be in the pantry and fridge and come up with a new recipe that has great taste and flavor. Contrast that with a commercial product…
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Podcast Episode 168: Hints to get More
We all want more but at what cost. There are a lot of attachments to more. With more SAD food comes more disease. However, with a more plant based diet comes more health. They go together and cannot be separated. If you drive on the wrong side of the road there is a good chance…
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Podcast: Episode 166- What the Fork with Addie Dulaney Majnaric, RDN
Welcome and thank you for listening. Today is a “What the ForK” episode on supplements. It seems impossible that there are so many benefits from eating a whole foods plant based diet and those claims certainly can generate a lot of discussion and debate. Luckily, there are many scientific papers to back up those claims…
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Blogpost: My fruit started out in a pie
Most of us did not start our lives eating just vegetables and fruits. We ate the “American Diet” which was a meat, a starch and a vegetable. In my grandmother’s house there was usually desert and most of the time there was a choice of pie. Fruit pie or filled pie. Why pie? Because it…
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Podcast Episode 165- Preventing colon cancer
Welcome and thank you for listening. Maybe I should have titled todays episode, How to get colon cancer? The American Cancer Society has been watching people over the past 10 years develop colon cancer at increasing rates in their 40s. The incidence is up 50% over the last 10 years. They now suggest we begin…
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Blogpost: What do I do to fight the common cold or virus?
The one medicine that has been shown to prevent death from a bacterial infection is an antibiotic. It has markedly improved the lifespan of humans from the treatment of wounds to dysentery to pneumonia. It has also changed the course of heart disease with regard to rheumatic fever that results from a particular streptococcus infection. So…
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Podcast: An Interview with PlantPositiverunning Kattie and Gwen during Nutriton Class
Welcome and thank you for listening. This episode features Katie and Gwen from Plantpositiverunning.com. I stumbled upon their YouTube channel of the same name and was hooked. They are two of the most positive people I have met in a long time. They are both quite the ultra running athletes and have podiumed several times in…
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Are Kale chips equivalent to Kale salad?
The word “Kale” is not the problem. It is more that “Chips” bring to mind a better image for most than “Salad”. Chips mean snack and eat what you want. Salad is associated with health food and no body wants that. Yet we are all trying to get healthy. We want health, but we…