A Letter from My Body~May 2012
CONGRATULATIONS! Due to your outstanding efforts ignoring your own dietary precautions, we are happy to inform you that you now qualify for the following services provided by Sucrose, Lactose & Glucose (SLG): achy joints, extreme fatigue, inflammation of sinus cavities, increased fluid production, and headache. Because you have been such a valued client lately, your services are effective immediately. We hope you are enjoying your inability to leave your darkened bedroom as well as the entire third and fourth seasons of The Office that were provided as your complimentary...
Read MoreDitch Your TV and Love Your Life
My son knows five kid-show characters: Elmo, Thomas, Fireman Sam, KoKo, and Diego. I always have to explain to people why he has no response to, “Look, Bear, it’s Jasper the NeverEnding Story Pirate-Vampire!” He’s just not exposed to it because we got rid of our cable and he watches very few shows. Look, people, we aren’t a hippy-dippy Waldorf-inspired, nature-centered, chia seed sprouting, wear our-underwear-twice-to-save-water-kind-of-family. I enjoy my particular sitcoms and dramas and guilty pleasures (coughTheVoicecough), too. So, when I say we are tv-free,...
Read MoreSugar Is Toxic: Avoiding Sugar & Changing Your Diet (Part 3)
Welcome to Part 3 in Healthful Mama’s Sugar is Toxic Series! Just finding the series? First read Part 1 and Part 2. Resetting Your Body Because sugar causes addiction-like cravings, and because your body craves more and more of it to get a “fix,” the best way to eliminate sugar is to ELIMINATE SUGAR. Most diets or diet foods want you to reduce sugar or simply use a sugar replacement–and that won’t work. I find that when I don’t have sugar, I don’t want sweets, and when I do indulge in something like ice cream, I notice wanting MORE of it. However,...
Read MoreChange One (More) Thing Challenge Revisited
Last month, I presented a challenge: Change One (More) Thing in your quest for eco-friendliness. I posted a list of changes I wanted to make and asked readers to do the same. You can view my original list HERE. My change this month: We’re Back in Cloth Diapers! Sometime mid-summer, my son developed a funky rash that required the use of an anti-fungal cream. We were doing some traveling as well, and began using one of my favorite disposable options, the GroVia Biosoaker, a compostable insert made of eco-friendly materials. (However, if you read my original list, you’ll see that...
Read MoreChange One (More) Thing Challenge
CHANGE ONE (More) THING CHALLENGE Long ago, I created a list of the eco-sins we were committing that I wanted to change. This helped reign in my crazy tendency to get everything done at once. I revisited the list a year later and realized we had accomplished many of the goals on the list. Here’s my current eco-sins-list of things we have/things we do that I’d like to see improved: -Gas guzzling Jeep Liberty SUV (I wish we could change this soon, but we’ll likely have it forever…) -Disposable razor blades (Such a waste of plastic!) -Electronics constantly plugged in (We need...
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