Archive for September, 2006
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Oops, I Lost My Protein Power Plan Kit Booklet
Not a week goes by that I don’t get a handful of emails through the website from readers who had bought and used the original Protein Power Plan kit. I just received two more today. Invariably, the person writing to us had used the plan and had since lost–almost always–either the Phase I booklet or the Cookbook. Stands to reason, since these two would for most folks have been the ones most used and therefore most likely to disappear with moving or spring cleaning. Because the question has come up so often, I figured it might behoove me to answer the question here for all to see.
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Sunday, September 17th, 2006
Shaking the Brown Bag Blues with Lunchbox ‘Sushi’
When our boys were kids in school, I spent my early mornings every Monday through Friday of the school year, toiling on the lunch sack assembly line. It’s a lonely and often thankless task to try to plan something that is not only nourishing and healthy for your kids, but something they’ll actually eat. In my experience, admittedly only an “n” of 3, the first directive is decidedly easier to manage than the second.
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Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
Every Man A King…Size
I read with some measure of sadness a piece on the CNN website entitled: 1 in 5 Children Will Become Obese.
Like the rest of the nation, I worry that the corn-feeding of America’s youth will bequeath staggering medical costs on future generations that no economic engine, regardless of its strength, could possibly generate enough power to support. Not to mention what it’s doing to the individual kids.
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
The Cranberry: It isn’t just for turkey anymore.
In a blog a couple of days ago on the health benefits of cranberries I spoke of adding more of this antioxidant-filled, low-carb gem of a berry to the diet. I mentioned, as well, that for many people, the cranberry sadly makes only one or two appearances a year on the dinner table, perched atop the turkey and dressing on the holiday luncheon plate, usually in the form of jellied cranberry sauce (a concoctiion that I cannot abide, but, for reasons utterly unintelligible to me, my brother adores.)
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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006
Coffee, Tea…or Cran-berry?
It’s not press-stopping news that foods contain antioxidants or that food-derived antioxidant compounds are beneficial to health and detrimental to disease. Gallons of ink (or more correctly in this ditgital age, lots of electrons) have been dispatched in recent years informing us of the salutory benefits of fresh fruits and veggies and extolling the particular virtues of eating broccoli, cabbage, red wine, coffee, tea, tomatoes, pomegranates, and even chocolate. Just let a health benefit be uncovered for a substance and an army of ad men comes out of the woodwork to spin the news to sell whatever it is. Comes now the cranberry
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Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
Grand Opening: The Online Store Kicks Off!
As promised, albeit after several false starts, multiple personnel substitutions, a couple of coaching changes, and delay of game penalties, we’ve finally kicked off. Our new webmaster has succeeded where others failed in getting the online store open and working at last. When you’ve got a moment, click onto the ‘Products’ tab on the homepage and it will whisk you like magic to the online store, where you can browse around and get a look at what’s there so far.
