Mortality, goodbye to my grampa, and taking youth for granted
Last weekend my grampa was in a hospital with pneumonia, his blood pressure 70/30 and they were unable to get an IV needle in him. We talk every day, my aunt or my dad, and I, about whether it’s time to fly to Couer d’Alene (via Spokane) to say goodbye. The crisis seems to be [...]
10 Comments • Continue Reading →“After I eat chocolate cake, I want to die”
I got this email from my friend Matthew: He had just read this quote: “When I eat chocolate cake, 20 minutes later I’m under my desk wanting to die, When I eat broccoli, in 20 minutes I feel good. But given the choice I always eat the cake.” Matthew asks: “Why do people choose the [...]
37 Comments • Continue Reading →Crazy….
I just wanted to share what I read in our local Fort Collins, Colorado paper yesterday. As I was perusing the Life section looking for the comics I read this headline over a recipe, “MSG, lime add jolt to beef”. Thinking this must be a mistake I read through the recipe for Garlic, Lime Beef [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →raw food in India? an interesting email from a reader
We get some really interesting email, and I’ve pasted one below that we got this week that I think you’ll enjoy. It corroborates what I have noticed being in 16 countries in the past 18 months. That is, the influence of American culture on the rest of the world has not been wholly positive, and [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →free class this Weds. at PowerTri in Lehi
Hi everyone, I am doing a green smoothie demo / clinic at PowerTri in Lehi, Utah, this Weds., July 15, at 7:30 p.m. and you are welcome to attend. It’s a new store for triathletes opened by 12 Stepper Jamie and her husband. Here’s the address and directions: PowerTri 402 S MillPond Dr [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Let’s talk about food and sex
No, this isn’t that episode of Seinfeld where George Costanza tried to combine the two in a feverish fantasy . . . and if you can’t handle some frank talk about an important part of your life, WARNING: hurry and get out of this blog and come back tomorrow. Did you know that what you [...]
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Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: I definitely have a binge eating disorder. This has been going on since I’m 13; I’m now 50! My husband, also 50 is very overweight and my daughter, 20 and in college is very overweight. I’m very interested in getting my family on track. What can you tell me about binge eating? [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →Educate kids about nutrition
Sometimes I wonder if my teenaged son is absorbing what I teach him about health, or if he’s just too annoyed with me and absorbed with “fitting in” to care. Yesterday after double header baseball games, one of the coaches ranted at the boys about the huge mess they’d made in the dugout, with [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →the nutritionally recalcitrant spouse . . . part four (summing up)
Lisle and Goldhamer, in The Pleasure Trap, write about how as a culture we’re like that frog in the boiling water. You try to put a frog in boiling water, he’s going to leap out. But put him in cold water and turn on the heat, he’s going to gradually boil to death without [...]
11 Comments • Continue Reading →young people with heart disease
Every semester, I have my Management Communications 320 students do an online writing assignment on a company discussion board. I give them a case involving discussion of an elementary school’s parent-teacher organization’s proposal for a new hot-lunch menu sponsored by fast-food chains. This case is based on my own real-life experience with my [...]
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