Years ago I read Dr. Oz’s book “You: On a Diet.” It’s a great book, check it out on Amazon here. One of the things I remember from that book was to automate at least one meal per day. My husband has automated his breakfast by making oatmeal with almond butter and maple syrup. I generally have a bowl of cereal (Heritage Flakes are my favorite) with 30-calorie almond milk and a half a banana, followed by a hard boiled egg. By automating this one meal, we don’t even have to think about it. Continue reading “How to Automate Breakfast and Lunch”
Category: Resources
Nutrition 101
This is a lecture I gave at one of my Healthy Cooking meetup groups in 2016. Sorry it’s somewhat of a work in progress but will polish it up soon!
Agenda
Nutrition Defined
Basic Nutrients
Digestion
Calories
Nature’s Intention
Nutrition Defined
What Most of us Learned in School
From Merriam Webster:
the act or process of nourishing or being nourished; specifically : the sum of the processes by which an animal or plant takes in and utilizes food substances Continue reading “Nutrition 101”
5 Films About Food That Will Astonish You
The following contains a hand-picked list of films about food that expose serious problems with America’s food industry. Our food is making us sick and obese, and the only way to fix it is by one person at a time making the right choices at home.
Food Inc.
This Academy Award-nominated film examines corporate farming in the United States, concluding that agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy, in a way that is environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and employees. (Source: Wikipedia)- Ingredients
Our world is becoming a more flavorless, disconnected and dangerous place to eat. INGREDIENTS portrays the people behind the movement to bring good food back to the table and health back to our communities. (Source: IMDB) - Food Matters
With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what’s wrong with our malnourished bodies, it’s no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide ‘sickness industry’ and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for overcoming illness naturally. (Source: foodmatters.tv) - Forks Over Knives
The feature film Forks Over Knives examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. (Source: ForksOverKnives.com) - Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead
A 2010 American documentary film which follows the 60-day journey of Australian Joe Cross across the United States as he follows a juice fast to regain his health. (Source: Wikipedia)
