Posts Tagged ‘ food ’

Summer’s here but do not fear – if you’re on a no-sugar diet, you can still drink lemonade! It’s so easy. One glass of filtered water, a couple ice cubes. The juice of half a lemon. Liquid stevia drops (alcohol free) to taste. Legal, refreshing, delish. My daughter even loves it and I get...
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I am compelled to take a break from regularly scheduled programming (the rest of the 5-part series on beliefs) so that I can rave about my new discovery. My precious discovery. My discovery of joy. What, you may ask, has me so titillated? Frozen wild blueberries with liquid stevia drops. Wait, hear me out!...
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Bread is everywhere, but that doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Muffins and donuts and candy are everywhere but that doesn’t mean they’re good for you. Trans fats, partially hydrogenated oils, high-fructose corn syrup, refined sugar, or sugar-substitute chemicals are in nearly everything, but that doesn’t mean they’re good for you. When I was...
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I talk about food a lot on this blog. The importance of a healthy diet, the benefits of discipline, and the ramifications of straying. Today I came across a blog of a nutritional counselor who spoke of a book called Integrative Nutrition by Joshua Rosenthal. Rosenthal offers a very interesting point that deepens and...
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I’ve been packing for days. Each day, I box up some of my possessions and my daughter’s possessions and add them to the tower in the corner of my living room. My life is methodically being packaged into a pause. On Wednesday, the boxes will be picked up and put in storage, where they...
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Leafy greens. The phrase haunts me. I know that if I want to be healthy, my diet should consist of as much as 70% organic leafy greens. This is commonly agreed upon advice according to well-educated nutritionists, anti-aging doctors, naturopaths, and the like. But I don’t like leafy greens. So I don’t eat them...
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As far as I’m concerned, art is meant to be hung on walls, not digested. That’s why I spent the last ten years working as a professional photographer and not a chef. I had been quite happily avoiding kitchens my entire life…until I was diagnosed with MS. That’s when I learned that my recovery...
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I remember when I was a child, and naive. I thought if foods were in our supermarkets and served in our restaurants, it must mean they were okay to eat. I remember understanding that an apple might be a better choice than a bag of chips, but I didn’t understand that the bag of...
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I watched the documentary Food, Inc. a few days ago with great interest. As some of you may know, I treat my illness primarily with diet and supplements, so food has become a major issue in my life these past few years. A funny thing happened when I stopped eating gluten, dairy, wheat, and...
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