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Flattening Obstacles One by One

A new year means a new start. You get one every morning, but something about starting over with a new collection of 365 days is more compelling. Making new year’s…

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Beans Again, and Again

You will never hear me stop talking about beans. I am a rather new bean convert because they are so absolutely amazing and I discovered their value later in life.…

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Complex Carbs, Simple Life

Grocery shopping with three diaper aged children is”¦where is the word for it? I distinctly remember putting the car in park and lacking the energy to get out. What is…

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Reflections

If you are reading this, you are truly dedicated to the pursuit of understanding nutrition because I know there are MANY other things you could be doing right now. Even…

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Better Than Science Fiction

NASA thinks they may have discovered an alien life form at Mono Lake. Our imagination would love for it to be an adorable E.T. like creature who crash landed his…

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Teeny, Tiny Blocks

A friend of our family came to dinner one time when the kids were small and proceeded to build a magnificent parking structure with the large sized lego blocks he…

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D-ficient

Oh life can seem so complicated. If you have kids, or daily contact with other human beings, then you probably know what I’m talking about. (smile) Nutrition, eating right, getting…

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Half the Plate, Feel Great

I”™m going to be perfectly fair here; no exaggerating to make a point, no casting things in the most negative light for the sake of drama. But there is a…

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Beans for Your Heart

Remember Lord Fiber from Week 6? I wonder if you’ve asked him back into your life. We learned that fiber protects our system from needing to make too much insulin…

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