There is a story about a frog in a pot of water. If you turn up the water slowly enough, the frog will not notice he is sitting in boiling water until it is too late to jump out, because, well, he will be, you know, dead. This is what I think of when it […]
Many studies involving sugar involve rats. I find it fascinating how rats mimic humans in similar situations. For example, when rats become addicted to cocaine, they will forgo rat food to have cocaine. Then the same rats are offered high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). This newer type of sugar (HFCS) was created in a lab […]
Isn’t that the stereotypical Mom command? My mother never had to tell me that. My younger brother Adam, was a natural born carnivore while I was more inclined towards vegetables. There were many times where I would be pushing around the animal protein at the end of dinner, while Adam would be pushing around his […]
When I was kid, my Grandmother who had done Weight Watchers in the 1970s told me to only occasionally eat what was then known as “starchy vegetables”. The term is not used very often now, even in Weight Watchers, but it is a scientific classification so here it is. “Starch is a substance that is […]
The last of the 3 micronutrient and are absolutely the most misunderstood. Many of us try to not eat “carbs” but what about spinach or kale? Those are carbs. Black bean pasta or spaghetti squash, also a type of carbohydrate. Do you run from blueberries or lemons? Also part of the carb crew. I had […]
As a Holistic Health Coach, it is Erin’s big hairy audacious goal is to change the dialogue around how we look at weight loss. It is not a matter of being it Ketosis or Food Swaps but the feelings we have that we are avoiding by overeating. Why are so many of us not tackling the real issues we have? It is easier and safer to obsess over the latest diet fad. Whether it be with our job, or our Mom, boyfriend, politics… until we address how we manage our feelings in the world, we are not going to.
