Thoughts on body image
I have a LOT to say about my own body image (here, and here, and here). It seems to be a hot topic in the community right now – we moved from “low-carb” to “safe starches” to women’s health and body image considerations, and I’m happy to stay here for as long as we care to […]
Obesity, the weight of the nation, and what’s really behind the obesity epidemic
According to the well-intentioned yet somewhat Barn-Door-Oblivious HBO Documentary Weight of the Nation, the Center for Disease Control tracks the beginnings of our obesity epidemic to the early 1980s. What else happened in the early 1980s? Among other things, we began pillaging our diets of the NATURAL saturated fat and cholesterol that stabilizes our appetite […]
For my Dad.
Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I am so very blessed to have you as my father. My doting, loving, hugging, supportive, stupid-movie-quoting father. (Mawwwiage!) Thank you for walking me all the way to the classroom door in elementary school. I have always felt fully supported, and that’s because I’ve always been fully supported. I’m so […]
What’s in your refrigerator?
I’m sure with the very – well, different dietary choices many of us make (cougheatingrealfoodcough) many of our loved ones are left wondering, What the heck is in their refrigerator? That was one of my early questions, before adopting a real food (like, REALLY real food – Paleo, Primal, junk-free, conventional-wisdom-busting) diet. I just knew that refrigerators were for cartons of milk, noodle […]
