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I’m making my own meals now! I never cooked before this…Wicked rad! I’m making stir fry with a bunch of veggies and chicken. Yum!

CAN YOU SAY BOOKED!?

That’s my schedule filled with running club, dragon boat racing club, work, etc…

And I didn’t even factor in my 1/2 marathon training sched!

AWESOME!!!

“As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.”

- Adelle Davis

I just finished some nice breakfast. Blueberry pancakes. (if you can’t tell I’ve been craving pancakes lately.)

The recipe is:

1/2 cup uncooked oats

1/2 blueberries

1 tablespoon honey

1 egg

Just blend it together and let it thicken. Sometimes I put it in the fridge overnight and make it in the morning. It is super delicous! I won’t lie though, it isn’t totally a pancake you can say, but made similar. Tastes great though, believe. Expecially if you love blueberries!

As for the workout today, I may just go for a jog. Because today is my off day and after kicking ass all week, I believe bodies deserve rest.

BUT that doesn’t mean I need to sit on my butt all day! After work I am definitely enjoying this beautiful day.

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”

- Hippocrates

Vicky surprised me this morning by making a fried breakfast, complete with HUGE Yorkie Pudds!

"The permission was for a yoga camp for 5,000 not for 50,000 people for agitation. We have cancelled the permission and asked them to move out."


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“The food pyramid is dead. Long live the plate!

“The food pyramid is dead. Long live the plate!

The USDA today announced the latest attempt to conceptualize the government’s dietary advice in a way consumers can understand.

Half of the plate is made up of fruits and vegetables and the other half grains and protein, with the sections for vegetables and grains slightly bigger than those for fruits and protein. Off to the side is a cup representing milk or other dairy product.”

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I’m not sure this will have any observable effect on dietary habits of the American public, but simplifying nutrition recommendations is certainly a step in the right direction.  The food pyramid (the previous model used to illuminate portion distribution) was unnecessarily complex and made patient teaching harder.  I would print out the pyramid for my patients and they would immediately lose interest in what I was saying - a balanced diet seemed too complex and not for them. 

This simple diagram will be a easier way for patient’s to reflect on their current diets and also to model future meals.

Of course, I love the advice Michael Pollan (well-know food intellectual, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma) gives “Eat food. Not too Much. Mostly plants.”

He offers an impressively simple solution to one our nation’s more challenging questions - what do we need to eat to be optimally heathy? Or for most people, what to we need to eat to be healthier than we are right now.