Apparently, I have subconsciously adopted a “diet” strategy that keeps my family and me pretty darn healthy and without too many worries about weight gain.
I didn’t realize until a few days into vacation that, back home, I don’t each much junk because I DON’T BUY much junk. If it’s not right there in front of [...]
Yesterday, my daughter’s class had a field trip. I went along for the adventure… remember? I’m an overbearing control freak!?! Nooo, silly!
Actually, I really enjoy spending time with our kids, I love the place they were visiting, I enjoy learning (or refreshing my memory) along with the kids, and… ok… I’m not thrilled with all [...]
Remember, these “Just One Thing” simple tips are meant to encourage you in your journey to better health. Each one is something relatively *easy* to accomplish… doesn’t take a complete life make over to fit it into your already-busy lifestyle.
You’ve probably ‘heard’ me say a hundred times, “Getting healthier isn’t about being perfect… it’s about [...]
What food/beverage consists of the following ingredients:
Water, Corn Syrup High Fructose, Pear(s) Juice From Concentrate, Citric Acid, Strawberry Juice from Concentrate, Pectin, Flavoring Natural
(Other flavors of this food/beverage would contain a different variety of fruit juice concentrates.)
Whatcha’ think it is?
Check out the following blurb from www.FoodFacts.com regarding the term “natural flavor” on packaging:
The term natural [...]
You probably guessed today’s mystery “food” pretty easily – macaroni and cheese (the leading brand, who shall remain nameless).
Seems relatively harmless when you read the ingredients with two glaring exceptions, and a few not-so-glaring, sneaky ones.
First, the artificial colors are toxic.
Second, where IS the health-building property of this food? I don’t see the 4 Golden [...]
A couple of nights ago I had the pleasure of giving my “Simple Nutrition for Maximized Living” presentation at a local gymnastics and cheer training center.
The coaches had expressed interest in this subject for quite a long time now. They clearly recongnize that when their athletes are fueling up with the proper nutrition, they are [...]
Here’s another recently published article I thought you might be interested in. Again, the topic is the increasingly common lack of nutrition in kids’ meals and snacks.
I somewhat jokingly call this trend the “Brown Food Diet”… or, more accurately the “White, Tan, Yellow, Beige and Brown Diet!”
Here’s the link to the article:
http://www.articlesengine.com/Article/Kids–Nutrition—Where-Has-All-The-Color-Gone-/407561/1
Let me know what [...]
Here’s a little article I recently wrote about school lunches and what we’re feeding our kids. Really, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a “school” lunch or lunch at the kitchen table. The point is, are we providing our kids with the basic building blocks for health?
Beware… I was somewhat “irked” when I wrote this! : [...]
Just thought I’d share how our family applies my mantra of “Getting healthier isn’t about being perfect… it’s about making better choices more often.”
Creating health through nutrition requires making more pure and sufficient choices, while decreasing the toxic and deficient ones.
Sometimes, I just feel like having a tasty toxin. So there.
Last night was one of [...]
OK, so they didn’t actually “go” to school… but, they’ve been “doing” school, nonetheless!
This is highly unusual for an afternoon “snack” for us, but, hey! Once in awhile, I get a little crazy! (Truth be told, I was a bit of a slacker at lunch today… they were a tad on the hungry side!)
The kids [...]
Yesterday my daughter went to her first day of a home school “school” that meets once per week for a very interesting variety of classes. This semester she’s taking a nice combination of history, arts, science/physics and literature.
Just an interesting, fun day for her with kids OTHER than her little brother, and a nice [...]
If you’re buying or growing conventional (vs. organic) vegetables and fruit, it’s more important than ever to make the effort to remove pesticides and other toxins before consuming your produce.
Toxicity is clearly at the core of every known chronic illness, like cancer, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, obesity, depression & anxiety disorders, infertility, digestive disorders, learning [...]
How about some very “real life” nutritional and food choice updates? Just to remind you that we are most certainly human… we are NOT perfect… and that getting healthIER does not require perfection, it just requires making better choices more often!
Saturday:
Was a busy day for us since hubby and I were teaching a seminar for [...]
Healthy Breakfast for the Kids
(Click link to watch the video)
Here’s a REAL look at our nutty household in the morning! Complete with silly children, bed head, and the destroyed dining table in the background that the kids transformed into a fort as soon as they woke up!
Welcome to our life!
I’m not sure if you’ll get [...]
I haven’t written the specifics about our food choices for awhile, so I thought I’d post an update about some of our healthy and not-so-healthy choices lately! (Aren’t you glad that I’m honest??!!)
Some of the not-so-healthy choices I can recall from the past several days:
1. The kids polished off a box of cereal last week. [...]
I find that it’s significantly easier (i.e. less whining, complaining and bemoaning about what “everyone else gets to eat”!) when I do two specific things with my kids upon presentation of their healthy foods:
1) I offer nothing else and next-to-nothing “junk-ish” is normally available in the house.
It’s pretty simple when I say, “This is all [...]
Here’s a little video clip of our kids having a healthIER lunch. Certainly not the healthiest lunch they’ve had… but a good example of how to take conventional foods (hot dogs, ‘tater tots’, etc.) and make healthier choices.
The little potato thingy-ma-bobs are a big deal around here, by the way! They’ve only had them a [...]
Whenever I find myself in a conversation about nutrition and choosing healthier foods for our families, one of the most common “yeah-but’s” I hear is that it’s too expensive to eat healthy.
I can definitely see where this comes from. It’s completely understandable.
However, I think that with a few subtle shifts in thinking and spending, eating [...]
I’m thinking of making this a regular ‘column’ here on the Dr. Mom blog.
I hear this virtually all the time: “It’s too HARD to eat healthy… or exercise regularly… or to de-stress…”, or whatever the lifestyle concern is.
I completely understand. In my opinion, health and happiness are PROactive – they take intention and effort. NOT [...]
Again, another party tonight! Fun, fun, fun!
That means our focus AGAIN today has been to keep it healthy all day long so we can enjoy “tasty toxins” tonight if we so choose.
Breakfast was fresh fruit, whole milk organic yogurt, and some free-range organic eggs. Shortly after, the kids had almond butter (and grass-fed organic butter) [...]
