Nutrition Examiner: Life after Teflon – comparing cooking pans

October 12, 2008  9:29 am

Nutrition Examiner: Life after Teflon – comparing cooking pans

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Nutrition Examiner: Overeating makes brain go haywire?

October 10, 2008  8:24 pm

Nutrition Examiner: Overeating makes brain go haywire?

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Poison in Chinese baby food

September 16, 2008  3:52 pm

Report on poison in Chinese baby food

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Tomato Cilantro Chicken Indian Style

September 1, 2008  9:08 am

I’ve posted a new recipe on the Suite 101 network. It’s quick and easy and a good way to use up extra vegetables that I hope are bursting from your garden.

Tomato Cilantro Chicken Indian Style.

Let me know how you like it and any modifications that you think make it better or make it yours.

Have a safe and healthy week.

Annie

Howard’s Healing Prayers

August 5, 2008  7:42 am

Last winter, Howard Wills did a number of healing ho-downs on the North Shore in Kauai. On Howard’s site, you can find a collection of prayers that he’s written and that he uses in his work. He says repeating the prayers creates a powerful positive mindset, and facilitates our physical and emotional healing.

I’ve used the prayers somewhat regularly over the past months, and who knows if I’m healthier for it. I do know that whenever I put in the 20 minutes or so to say the prayers, I feel happy. Give them a try and I’d love to hear if and how they impact your life.
Be healthy and happy,

Annie

Warm Weather Breakfast – Smoothie Savvy

July 27, 2008  7:52 am

It’s been hot on Nantucket this week, so anywhere else it must be nasty. I have a longtime smoothie habit, and have gotten into adding crushed flax seed to my morning blend. I knew that coffee grinder would come in handy someday. I’ve been re-evaluating the benefit of nutritional supplementation, and it just feels better to me to get a little omega-3 this way rather than through a pill.
Here’s a new piece I’ve posted to suite 101 on Smoothie Savvy. Enjoy.

Some Guiding Worksheets

July 18, 2008  9:26 am

I have a very beautiful group of women that I’m working with on Nantucket this month. Hi everyone!

One of you asked that I make the ‘emotionally healthy habits & affirmations’ slides from Dr. Gould’s work into a handout, and here it is:

Emotionally Healthy Habits & Affirmations

I’m also including the Steps to Lifestyle Manifestation handout so that you can continue to use it as a framework as you work with different aspects of lifestyle:

Steps to Lifestyle Manifestation

Lastly, I’m attaching a Inquiry Food Journal, that you can use as an exercise to delve deeper into what you’re eating, and why/how. As I mentioned in our group, keeping a food journal can be difficult, but can also provide you lots of info and support. Most of us eat much more healthfully when we know that we’re writing it down! There was a recent study that suggested that people who use food journals lose twice as much weight as those following a similar program without tracking.

I suggest that you do your journaling in groups of 3 days, and try to plan 3 different but somewhat typical sorts of days. For example one week day, one weekend day, and a family gathering day (if these are typical for you). Then take time to ‘digest’ your journal, looking for ideas on how you can shift your environment or your habits to support healthy choices.

Here it is:

Inquiry Food Journal

See you on Tuesday!

Annie

Kaiser Permanente study finds keeping a food diary doubles diet weight loss

July 8, 2008  9:14 am

Nobody. And I mean nobody, likes to keep a food journal. It’s time consuming, and requires you to face up in a big way to what, how much and when you eat. But, if you really want to improve your diet, it’s a terrific tool and worth the temporary discomfort. Think of it as growing-conscious pains. What I tell people is to remember that it’s not forever, but to take a few days, particularly if you are going to work with a nutritionist, and dive in.

Here’s the link to the Kaiser Study, which was funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the NIH, and will be published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Does Law & Order Trigger Overeating?

June 30, 2008  12:08 pm

I admit it – I watch Law & Order. Actually, what I watch is the last half-hour when, like clockwork, it transitions from the street to the courtroom. I love rightous Jack – he reminds me of the passionate do-gooders from my public health days. And I do love knowing that no matter what, by the top of the hour, they’ll have a verdict and a moral. BUM-BUM.
I recently joined a writing bank called suite 101, and came across this article written by one of the other writers on the site. Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen writes about psychology and health, and her report on a recent study suggesting that watching television shows that show or discuss murder make us dwell somewhere in our psyche on our own demise. That makes us nervous and that makes us eat.

I can’t say that how it happens in my own life, but take a read of her interesting piece here.

This Week in Food & Wellness

June 12, 2008  10:39 am

Here’s some stuff from last week -

It seems that after a decade of escalating childhood obesity rates we’ve leveled off. I think that schools and parents now understand the food environment kids are in, and education is shifting so that kids learn to be better consumers – something they really never had to do before this epidemic with relation to food.

Recent Data Gives Hope in Childhood Obesity – New York Times

Nothing like a scoop on a warm day…

The Scoop on Fattening Ice Cream Flavors – New York Times/Newsweek