Protein As A Supplement?

I wish I were kidding, but today, in the ‘ask the expert’ column of a popular magazine, there was a reader inquiry regarding protein.  She explained that she follows a vegetarian diet and wondered whether she should ‘supplement with protein’. Supplement? A supplement is something akin to an added little extra; perhaps an extra lime […]

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What’s With All the Coconut Oil?

Hey, Nell, I noticed that a lot of your recipes you use coconut oil, where olive oil would seem just as appropriate.  I was just wondering if coconut was in some way better that EVOO?  I know it has less omega 6, but really I think some omega 6 is fine, so long as you’re […]

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Kids As Our Motivation

There are reasons to get healthy everywhere we look; and sometimes these very reasons are sitting with us at the dinner table, watching television with us on a Monday evening or tugging at our hands to go outside and play. Yes, I’m talking about kids. While I don’t have any of my own, except, of […]

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Sugar On Your Broccoli? What?

That was precisely my friend’s reaction when she read through a delicious-sounding recipe in a popular cooking magazine for roasted broccoli. At first, she assumed it must be some last ditch attempt to trick kids into eating their veggies, which I’d obviously be vehemently opposed to. She happened to mention it when we were at […]

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