How to Identify Food

It seems simple right? Seems a dumb thing to write about because doesn’t everyone know how to identify food? It’s the stuff you put in your mouth when you’re hungry (or just want it) that you then chew and swallow. Why is this a question? This how to identify food thing that everyone from birthContinueContinue reading “How to Identify Food”

Sugar & Health

Without extreme measures, which may or may not be absolutely necessary, is it possible to have a healthy relationship with sugar? Can we have our cake and eat it too as they say? For clarity, when I speak about sugar, I don’t mean the artificial stuff. Most artificial sweeteners are incredibly dangerous and while offeringContinueContinue reading “Sugar & Health”

Why You Eat Sugar

Sugar comes in many forms these days. It is hard not to find sugar. I think I am most surprised to find where I wouldn’t think it is needed and yet there it is. Subtle and sweet underlying almost everything we eat. It is not that sugar is inherently bad for us but rather thatContinueContinue reading “Why You Eat Sugar”

What It Takes to Break Up with Sugar

Sweet, sweet sugar. The essence of every dessert. The delectable treat of every holiday, major and minor life event. It is the sweet comfort of tears and broken hearts too! Yes, sugar is both celebrator and comforter cornerstone ever present. How then can we even imagine a life without it? Is it even possible toContinueContinue reading “What It Takes to Break Up with Sugar”

Why We Eat Fake Food

In true dramatic movie fashion, my image of fake food takes place in a desolate place that has long been vacated. I search the cabinets, drawers and places people normally kept food, when life was normal. Finding this small left behind package of some cardboard looking flat thing that is colorless and odorless is myContinueContinue reading “Why We Eat Fake Food”