In addition to sharing my recipe for Hoppin John- a recipe guaranteed to give good luck in the New Year, I am passing along this quote I read in Penny C. Sansevieri’s newsletter: An old Cherokee told his grandson: “My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It [...]

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention more than 14 million Americans have type II diabetes—a staggering three-hundred percent increase over the past forty years—and the numbers are steadily climbing. Fortunately, studies now show that lifestyle changes such as strength training have a profound impact on helping older adults manage their diabetes. In [...]

  I love this pie and you will too. Not only is it delicious it is probably one of the best desserts one can eat. It makes use of blueberries without adding a lot of calories from fat. Use a store bought graham cracker crust and you will not have to heat the kitchen and [...]

  A simple meal plan of eating vegetables at the beginning of a meal achieved better blood sugar control than an exchanged-based diet. Researchers in Japan wanted to learn if patients could improve their diabetic control with the  simple dietary recommendation to eat  vegetables before carbohydrate at meals. To test the theory they divided  101 [...]

While you breastfeed, you should lose weight more slowly than you would otherwise.  Safe weight loss for most adult women when not nursing is thought to be one to two pounds per week, or about eight pounds a month.  For breastfeeding moms, safe weight loss after the first postpartum month is thought to be only [...]