the virtues of coconut water
Stacy S., organizer of my San Diego event last week (I will blog about it this week, just waiting for photos), that I should write more about coconut oil. How about the liquid, or water, of the coconut? Thanks for the help on this, Jenny Cook: It’s an amazing alternative to water – low in [...]
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If I’d had my camera with me, I’d have taken a photo of one of my fiercest tennis opponents, whose name is Kristy. I haven’t played her in a long time; she plays for a club in North Salt Lake that we sometimes lose to (whereas we beat everyone else). She’s my age with 4 [...]
14 Comments • Continue Reading →that ubiquitous blue, sugary sports drink
That blue drink. It’s everywhere. I’ve never tried it, but it’s in the photo with my son in the dugout from last week. One of my kids reported to me not long ago, “My soccer coach says I HAVE to drink Gatorade, because it’s good for us and she doesn’t want us passing out.” I [...]
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back from Costa Rica: can you eat well there?
I am back from Costa Rica. It was supposed to be a 7-day trip, using Delta buddy passes given to me (very inexpensively) by a friend. Unfortunately at the end of our trip, we spent THREE DAYS in the airport trying unsuccessfully to get out of Costa Rica until I finally bought both [...]
5 Comments • Continue Reading →where to buy unrefined salt . . . part 2 of 2
This continues a review of one of my favorite things, OHCS, and a link for where to buy completely unrefined salt. A double-blind study done in Austria in 2003 examined the effects of drinking a minimum of 1.5 liters of water with table salt, versus 1.5 liters of water with Original Himalayan Crystal Salt (OHCS). [...]
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Eating right while traveling internationally . . . last part
We visited a coastal area of China where the average age is 79 years old! People very routinely live to be over 100 and the area has become known as the “longevity region.” I asked the tour guide what they eat, and he said, local vegetables and fruit, and seafood. I saw [...]
9 Comments • Continue Reading →Why you desperately need SALT–and what kind
If I go to a restaurant and eat something with a lot of sodium, I can barely make a fist when I wake up the next day. My fingers are like pudgy sausages. My body hates salt—or so I thought. We all know that too much sodium is linked to heart disease. [...]
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