Recently, I had 2 patients ask me for a granola recipe. Coincidentally, inspired by my uncle Daniel who started making his own granola a while ago, Caroline and I have been making an awesome granola recipe from scratch for the past month. We always make a double recipe, but, it's usually so good that it only lasts a week... [caption id="attachment_691" align="aligncenter" width="150" caption="Granola just out of the oven"][/caption] There are some things you can buy at a store that work ...
A philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion but determined to judge for himself. He should not be bound by appearances, have no favourite hypothesis, be of no school and in doctrine have no master. Truth should be his primary object. Michael Faraday (1791-1867) Ah, cholesterol. And its good friend, saturated fat. Invariably, when the topic of healthy eating comes up, one of the first things many people bring up is how they eat a health low-fat diet, and try their best to stay away from those bad, evil, high fat foods. Immediately following ...
How to Eat and Prepare “Real Food”
Just before the holidays, a patient of mine asked me a simple question: What do you eat? She was interested in changing her diet to improve her health. We had talked about including more whole foods, vegetables, protein, high quality fats from real foods, fiber from whole food sources, and so on. So, I was beginning to list out all of the recipes I use for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, when all of a sudden, two Sundays ago in the New York Times, I ran across a short article that seemed like it was practically written for ...
Awareness Based on my own intensive process of healing through nutrition, I found that in the end, the most important part of the healing process came not as much from changing what I ate as from developing a greater awareness, or mindfulness, around the whole eating process. This awareness can be broken down into 4 parts: What does your body feel like when you’re eating, and after you eat? What are you eating / what are the ingredients? When are you eating / is there a regular schedule? What are you doing / what’s your state of mind while you’re eating? Notice that ...
