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Dietionary

Who Ate My Lunch???

March 17, 2010

No I’m not talking about somone stealing your lunch out of the break-room fridge, I’m talking about eating amnesia, which can certainly thwart our weight loss goals.  While they do make plastic bags that give the appearance of moldy food to deter someone from snagging your sandwich, I’m unaware of a product that will help us avoid [...]

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Meals, Snacks & Your Metabolic Rate

January 27, 2010

In class yesterday, one of our participants was wondering if eating five or six mini meals is better for her metabolism than eating three major meals. At Green Mountain we work with three main meals, but also give people the opportunity to add snacks throughout the day as needed because everyone is different in terms [...]

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Finding What Works for You: Thoughts on Food Journals

December 16, 2009

Robyn Priebe, RD, nutrition director at Green Mountain, is back today with a bit of a twist on my Monday post on listening to yourself.
All too often I see people respond to the same situation so differently.  For example, I frequently get questions about the benefit of food journaling.  Typically I do not recommend [...]

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Respecting Your Uniqueness: Are Low-Carbohydrate Diets Right for You?

December 14, 2009

I’ve been reading quite a bit recently since my foray into the food as medicine world, and one of themes that keeps hitting home to me is how we are all biochemically unique.  Yet when many of us set out to clean up our eating, we often try to follow guidelines that may not work [...]

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For a Smaller Waist, Eat Red Meat, Butter & Whole Milk?

August 12, 2009

I recently rediscovered the blog Junkfood Science whose author Sandy Szwarc, BSN, RN, CCP describes as “critical examinations of studies and news on food, weight, health and healthcare that mainstream media misses.  Debunks popular myths, explains science and exposes fraud that affects your health.”
Like us at Green Mountain at Fox Run, Sandy is an advocate [...]

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Is Responsible Advertising an Oxymoron?

August 10, 2009

This is a short post today because if everything goes as planned, I’m flying back from an all-too-rare, all-too-short family vacation at my sister’s home where I got to see my daughter and spend time with the whole family together.  With the son off to college in a few weeks, and daughter off a few [...]

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What's Wrong with Stealing Cookies from the Cookie Jar

August 4, 2009

Because my husband usually rises before me and switches on the tv in the other room, I often wake to the childhood jingle about stealing cookies from the cookie jar, repeated by a woman and a man touting their weight loss success on the Cookie Diet.
It really bugs me, initially just because of the ad.  [...]

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Sweet Talk: Which Sweetener is Best?

August 3, 2009

Which sweetener do you think wins when it comes to good nutrition:  Agave or honey? Or should we go for stevia, the other natural sweetener that’s big on health foodies’ lists? What about xylitol and other sugar alcohols?  Then there’s blackstrap molasses, which contains the same antioxidants found in nuts and berries (although you’d have [...]

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It Happened This Week: Fad Diets, Fortified Junk Food and BlogHer

July 31, 2009

This week, we’ve talked a bit about our past diet foibles. We’ve all had them, whether it’s cutting out carbs or adult weight loss camps like the Biggest Loser. In the archived post “Requiem for a Fad Diet Author,” Marsha wonders why we keep falling for fad diet schemes.
The Onion has a funny take [...]

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Rethinking Carbohydrates…Again

July 29, 2009

If you’re as old as I am, you’ve been around the block with the carbohydrate question too many times to count.  Even if you’re younger, you’re still likely a veteran of the carbohydrate wars.  Has any nutrient gotten as much negative attention over the last 50 years of weight worrying in America as carbohydrates?
Yet I’ll [...]

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