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Unfriendly New Deals in Fast Food

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Yours for only 1500+ calories and 97 grams of fat! All for just $5 at Friendly’s. What a bargain, right? 

It’s amazing that this almost doesn’t look unusual – we’ve become complacent in how we view food.  Bigger is better, fat is fabulous, filling is fantastic, fuller is even more …..barf, well, not so good but what’s full anymore?  With portions like this, how do we even know when to stop eating?

Denny’s offers a free Grand Slam breakfast once a year (see pic of how busy they are!). And now, they’re pleasuring us with all the fixin’s of a Grand Slam into a sandwich of potato bread grilled with a maple spice spread.  Yum!  Look for this deal called the Grand Slamwich.  It’s a steal at 1320 calories, 90 g fat and 42 g saturated fat – enough to clog your arteries for 3 days (provided you’re following a 7% saturated fat intake daily, based on 2000 calories).

I wonder about corporate social responsibility.  I wonder if the big food companies know anything about ethics and responsibility to provide healthy food options at a price many can afford.  I wonder what it would look like in the U.S. for these companies to embrace responsibility for the outcome of their offerings, for the impact their offerings have had on consumer’s health and well-being.  Hmmmmmm……….thoughts?

Tags: Corporate responsibility, Fast food
Posted in Fat, High blood pressure, High cholesterol | No Comments »

One Drop in the Ocean – One Bite on the Fork

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Everyone knows that the drop is inside the ocean, but it is the rare one who knows the ocean is contained in the drop, says Kabir Das, one of the greatest poets of all time. In many cultures, the heart is seen as the container for our spirit. Yet it’s not the physical heart I speak of here, but a space of subtle energy that serves as the doorway to the inner world.

Just as the Universe contains us, our heart space or heart center contains the Universe.

So it is with eating. Huh?

I live by three simple rules when it comes to eating, well mostly, when I’m connected to my heart center.

1. Eat when I’m hungry.
2. Stop when I’m comfortable.
3. Eat whatever my body wants. (more…)

Tags: Heart Center
Posted in Mindful Eating, Nutrition | No Comments »

You Have Choice in What You Really Want To Eat

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Meet my dear friend, Ellen Glovsky, gifted with keen vision and wit and methods of uncovering our deepest desires and needs when it comes to our relationship to food. Read on as she shares how we choose what feeds our bodies and souls.

Many people who have struggled with food in their lives feel that they never know what they really want to eat. They have come to believe that foods are either good (healthy) and bad (unhealthy); the choice they make labels them “good” or “bad” as well. The irony here is that feeling badly about oneself is a great reason to overeat or even binge!

Where Does This “Black and White” Thinking Come From?

People who are chronic dieters have been taught and absorb the idea that if you are “on” your diet you are being “good,” and if not, you are automatically “bad.” I hear people say “I had a good day” or “I was really bad this week.” What a way to judge yourself! (more…)

Tags: Bad foods, Good foods
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Tomato Tete`-a-tete´

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

While I adore – repeat adore – the summer season in New England, with the less-than-scorching temperatures and humidity of the South from whence I cometh, I ache for the organic tomatoes still warm from the sun’s rays I would pick right off the vine. Bursting with sunshiny goodness, my then 2-year old daughter would make her way there many lazy afternoons to snack on their juicy freshness.

In the Boston area, I wander from store to farmer’s market, almost zealot-like, in my search of a tomato that equals my memories. Imagine a sweet breeze in the air carrying scents of freshly baked bread wafting from a European-style local market in Cambridge (it takes me back in time to my youthful days in Germany). Formaggio Kitchen (http://www.formaggiokitchen.com) boasts, among its wares ample enough to make a simple picnic or gourmet meal, international cheeses, chocolate and wine. It’s where I found a vision of beauty in an heirloom tomato.

Freshly made mozzarella just around the corner from the produce section found its way sliced atop thick slabs of this heirloom, layered with tiny basil leaves from our CSA share this week (http://www.sienafarms.com) and generously drizzled with hand-blended and flavored olive oil from the Temecula Olive Oil groves in San Diego, a personal must-have now that I found this shop on a recent business trip (you can place online orders for oils and vinegars at http://www.temeculaoliveoil.com). The union of taste temptations ends with a fine drizzle of Vanilla and Fig Balsamic Vinegar (also from Temecula).

Ah, this is a Tete`-a-tete´ of taste and remembrance.

Tags: Heirloom tomato
Posted in Nutrition, Recipes, Vegetables | No Comments »

5 Foods…Rx for Beauty

Saturday, June 26th, 2010
close-up of strawberries in a bowl

Beautiful skin starts from the inside out. Healthy skin is vibrant, elastic and glowing. To see the difference, check out those hanging around the smoking stick (a tall cigarette butt holder just outside the vestibule of buildings) and you’ll see ashen, sallow skin with lined puckers around the lips. Or fast food junkies looking lack-luster and dull.

To the rescue and as easy as the plate in front of you, are five foods known to benefit skin health. At the top of the list, strawberries. This time of year, I am blissed out with bowls of strawberries every morning. Vitamin C-rich foods, including red bell peppers, broccoli and oranges along with strawberries, keep skin moist and plump keeping wrinkles at bay, . (more…)

Tags: Omega-3, Skin health, Vitamin C
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