Category Archives: Health
The Stained Baby
Last weekend we threw Iris a proper (belated) first birthday party, complete with a theme (fish), decorations, kids and too much cake. The weather was perfect, and it was an absolute blast. Pressed for time the day before, I picked … Continue reading
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Spelty Spelty Spelt
Not all that long ago, I bought a bag of spelt berries. This is the latest advance in my crusade to vary our whole grains beyond the dominating wheat and brown rice. Bottom Line: I do like barley better. However, … Continue reading
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The Pineberries Taste Like Pineberries!
One time, when I was, like, three, I ate a buttload of strawberries and broke out into hives. Fortunately for me and my love of all things red and berried, it’s never happened again. I can enjoy strawberries just like … Continue reading
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Life on My Mind
As I said to a world-weary friend on Monday: “Being an adult with access to information is exhausting.” Work, family, Korea, taxes, questionable food sources, social obligations, blasts at public events… It’s a lot to take in every day. I … Continue reading
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Eggucation
Once, I wrote about eggs and why they rock. Eggs are probably the main reason I could never be vegan. Yesterday, a friend posted this article about egg labeling and pasture raised eggs on my Facebook wall. Because I’m a … Continue reading
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Processing: For Ideas, not Food
I’m thinking about my diet. Aspects of simply wanting to eat cleanly, now that I have a good handle on limiting animal products and upping roughage, are still swirling after my fleshy quandary last week. Can I just say, for … Continue reading
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Quandries of the Flesh
If you search “fish and chicken” in Google images, you get a surprising number of chicken-fish, fish-in-chicken, chicken-in-fish images that range from the oddly realistic to the freakish graphic novel variety. Oh, what a wild world, this realm we call … Continue reading
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Baby Food Roll Call
At nine and a half months old, Iris is enjoying a varied diet. We started a few months ago with apples, sweet potatoes and peas, and now she’s enjoying Swiss chard, tofu, quinoa, avocado and so much more. Of course, … Continue reading
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Raw Meat is Ga-ROSS!
Last weekend, I cooked turkey for the first time in a long time. I was making a soup for some friends who just had a baby, and as the mother is breastfeeding, I wanted to throw in enough protein and … Continue reading
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Backward Health Care: Mental Health
I don’t like to gripe, and I certainly don’t want to be perceived as a whiny, entitled hypochondriac. However, I think there is a lot wrong with the health systems in this country, and people like myself are getting a … Continue reading
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