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What’s in your morning routine? Do you take full advantage of the Golden Hours? August is to my daily routine as January is to my diet. Like the Christmas gustatory indulgences, which upset my eating habits, the lack of structure during the summer – not to mention the four-month-old puppy – have wreaked their havoc …
One of my girlfriends has a waterproof notepad and pencil in her shower. Did you know that such a thing exists? I didn’t! It’s genius because we all know that great ideas often strike in the shower. But have you ever wondered why? Yesterday I was pondering that question…you guessed it, in the shower. Why …
As I’ve been pondering decision fatigue lately, I’ve also been reading about what others are doing to reduce its effect on them. One concept that has been intriguing to me is timeboxing. Timeboxing is simply limiting an activity to a set period of time. For example, you might set a timer for processing emails and …
Does Decision Fatigue Affect You? What is that project or task you are avoiding and putting off? Come on, don’t tell me you don’t have one. We all do. Think about it. What is the item that keeps getting bumped from one list to the next? What thing do you walk by and wish you …
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Why Eat Local Food? Why would anyone choose to buy meat and produce from local farmers instead of from the grocery store? Why do some people spend time in …
If you came to my house, it would be illegal for me to offer you a glass of milk with your cake. Seriously, the food police would forbid it. We drink raw milk here. The cold jar of cream-on-top whole milk in my refrigerator is unpasteurized and unprocessed, just like it came from the cow. …
When you’re washing, peeling, and chopping vegetables, do you feel like a hero? When you drive past that fast food restaurant, despite the protests from the backseat, toward home and leftovers in the fridge, do you feel like Wonder Woman? Neither do I. But maybe we should. You’ve heard it said that the hand that …
I sit in a donut shop for 90 minutes a week. Every week. But, I don’t eat the donuts. “Good luck!” my daughter quipped as she ended our call last night. I wasn’t sure what she meant, so I asked her why I needed good luck. “Good luck not eating a donut!” she explained with …
What are Artificial Growth Hormones and Why Are They in My Milk? rBGH, (recombinant bovine growth hormone) is a genetically modified veterinary drug, administered by injection, and is used to dramatically increase milk production in cows. Patented by Monsanto, rBGH was later renamed rBST (recombinant bovine soma-totropin) in an effort to drop the H and …
What is Your Health Trajectory? Today you have made choices that will affect your health, either positively or negatively. Think of the choices (conscious or not) you have made today that are likely to improve your health as well as those that are likely to reduce it. Like a bank account, we want the positives …