Archive for October, 2012

Fats: Old & New

The more I hear about how “saturated fat is bad for you” and how we should replace things like animal fat and butter with vegetable oil, the more frustrated I get. Just from a common sense perspective, how can this be good for us? Old, naturally occurring fats we have been eating for thousands of […]

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Making Better Choices

I often talk to people about making better choices. Progress taking priority over perfection. Like anything else, making better choices takes some attention, discipline and practice. Once you get a feel for making smarter choices it becomes easier and easier until eventually it is programmed into your overall way of life. One of the best […]

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Why We All Don’t Get Cancer

Cancer. Something that scares so many people and is almost everywhere these days. Thankfully we are making such remarkable advances in the world of research and treatment of cancer, it is becoming much less scary each year. This is certainly the thought of many people on the front lines of the battle against cancer. I […]

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When Good Kids Go Bad

“I just don’t understand why my child acts like this!” Oh to think how many parents have uttered a sentence like this over the years… Good Kids Gone Bad There are a million and a half things that influence kids’ behavior and demeanor. As a parent of two and the husband of a kindergarten teacher […]

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The Champ

A Go-Getter: an aggressively enterprising person. Over the weekend the world lost one of its classic go-getters. After 82 years of go-getting, the man many knew as “The Champ” has moved on. To others, he was a passionate, good hearted, driven, focused and diligent man. To me, he was a client, mentor, father figure and […]

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Sand Castles

I’m always talking to people about stress and how it impacts their life. Every once in a while I present an analogy that people seem to connect to. The latest: sand castles. You create a sand castle. Waves come and wash part of it away. You rebuild it. Bigger waves wash away more, smaller take […]

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Rethinking Sodium (& Salt By Default)

In 2010, the revised US Dietary Guidelines were released. One of the revisions was to restrict sodium intake to 2300mg per day or 1500mg if older than 50, or of any age who are African American, have hypertension, diabetes or chronic kidney disease. This is unfortunately a further reinforcement of the mantra that sodium (and […]

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Thanks, Haagen Dazs

Yes, I am saying thank you to an ice cream company. And this is why… Cream, milk, sugar, egg yolks and vanilla extract. That’s it. Simple, old fashioned ice cream. If you’re going to eat ice cream, this is how you do it. Forget the chemicals, colorings, emulsifiers and other fillers. Stick with the good […]

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Progress, Not Perfection

One of the most important messages I can share with someone: getting healthier is about progress and not perfection. Perfection Although inspiring, this vague concept has plagued many a health quests. Instead of focusing on getting better and gaining health, people burn out or give up, having failed at capturing this unattainable, undefinable thing called […]

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