Creativity came to me as I looked at the fresh apricots while making guacamole, mushing the avocados down with a fork. The purple yams had already been steaming, just by chance, because it was time to make them. None of these separate ingredients were intended to get mixed together initially. I knew my husband would […]
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Cultural Dietary Errors & People’s Dependency on Recipes
My goal in this article is not to bash nutritionists, the government, or lobbyists. My goal is to encourage people to think for themselves. The information that’s put out there by nutrition experts has some truths and some areas that don’t make perfect sense yet. People need to be mindful of their body, using the […]
Secret to Sleep
The secret to sleeping well is to do cardio. Stop surfing the web right now and head to the gym. Many exercises are healthy and many might say that they will help you sleep. For example, yoga, which I teach, says that it will relax you. It does. It makes you feel great. But for […]
Calcium
Calcium never gets enough attention. This blog is directed to women. As always with HeartMark Health, this article will not repeat the same old material that you can find elsewhere. Women do not store extra calcium that does not get consumed from one day to the next once they are about 24. This means that […]
Dinner for Breakfast (TM)
You’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Your grandmother warned you not to skip breakfast and even to eat a big meal. But for some reason, many people in the US take that to mean that they should eat typical American breakfast foods in a larger quantity. If you […]
Take That to the Fair! The Rule of Expansion
Here is another useful fact that no one else has ever talked about because it is another HeartMark Health original: The Rule of Expansion. The Rule of Expansion refers to how much bulk space food takes up in your stomach after it sits there for a few minutes. It assumes that you want to maximize […]
Yes You Can! –Classically Condition Yourself!(TM) and CCR’s
A longer review of classical conditioning is in my older posts. Please refer to them to see why you are just like Pavlov’s dogs! When you crave a particular food, it is often because your body associates that food with some other habit. Perhaps you always think of salsa every time you eat turkey? And […]
HUNGER and Its Negative Effects on Your Body:
When you don’t eat when you are hungry, results that you don’t want happen: 1. Your body thinks there is no food so it slows down the metabolism. This is a genetic instinct that is necessary to survival. Back when we had to rely on what we could hunt or gather, the body’s only way […]
Daily Set Point for Water and Sugar (TM)
Have you ever noticed that the less you drink, the less you feel the need to drink water? Have you noticed that the more sugar you eat, the more sugar you want? These two questions began my study 15 years ago on what I call the body’s Daily Set Point for Water and Sugar, or […]
Twilight Zone of Junk Food
My first daughter’s school, (“Scottsdale Academy of Arts,”)a half Montessori-style beautiful school with a ballet school inside it, wrote that the day’s snack was fruit. When I came midday unexpectedly, which most parents never did at this school, I saw the children sitting around the table eating life savers type of candy that was fruit […]
PE Classes Are Useless For Obese Children–As They are Taught Today
America knows that childhood obesity is a problem. But recognizing the problem is not enough to understand how to avoid it. One way to avoid making our children fat is to completely change the way physical fitness is viewed and taught in schools. PE classes are especially useless for the kinds of children who end […]