When I was at the height of my sugar addiction I was with my sisters and daughters in Ashland, Oregon for the Shakespeare Festival. We had stopped at the local chocolate store before a play.  My sister, Gigi and I each bought the same thing and while we were eating it she said, “It’s too rich!” I thought [...]

“He who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking will never accomplish anything.” Martin Luther If you want to banish belly fat, you’ve got to do something fairly counter intuitive: eat. Research shows that dieting too intensely or tracking every morsel too closely creates the perfect conditions for adding belly fat, not subtracting it. A [...]

Unless you have had your head buried in a Big Gulp you probably already know that there are a litany of reasons why soda is bad for you. It’s nothing but sugar water. It’s devoid of any nutritional value. It leads to obesity and diabetes.  Here are things you might not know. Drinking non-diet soda [...]

“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”  -Helen Keller “Gluten free”  labels are popping up every where and you might be asking yourself what it means and if you are missing out on some big new solution to all your dietary problems. The truth is that you might be, [...]

  Eating is the way to lose weight.   We are designed to eat! It seems counter intuitive in our dieting society but eating is not what makes people fat and dieting is NOT the way to lose weight.  The popularity of diets is a major contributor to the obesity epidemic.  With each round of dieting muscle is lost [...]

My friend has a glass cookie jar with a loose fitting lid and a few left over sugar cookies.  These cookies are 13 years old and look exactly the way they did the day they were bought.  Not even mold or insects wants them.  If you put a carrot, or egg or chicken breast in [...]