November 2012

Misleading Commericals

Commercials can be very misleading!  They can make you think you are helping a good cause, going to lose weight if you buy a specific product, or can help your child meet their nutritional needs without practicing eating balanced meals.  Most of the food and dietary supplement commercials we see on TV are selling products we don’t actually […]

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Five Tips To Make Your Waistline Thankful

Oh, Thanksgiving here you come with all your glorious food, making it hard to watch portion sizes and get away from the buffet table.  It’s is even harder to say no to seconds when you have a Nana, Grandma, Mother, or even a second cousin trying to give you their love through food.  Thanksgiving makes it […]

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Seattle Bites: Walking Food Tour

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I checked out the Seattle Bites walking food tour with my family this past weekend.  It was a very tasty tour around Pike Place Market in Seattle.  Below is a map of a few of the places we stopped at.  I forgot to take pictures of the food at some of them, because I was […]

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Proposition 37: Your Vote. Your Label.

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Today is Election Day!  So, if you haven’t voted yet…go do it!  Californians are also currently voting on Proposition 37. What is Proposition 37? Prop 37 is a genetically engineered food labeling initiative statute.  It is hard to find a reliable list of all foods containing GMOs, but the estimate is that 75-80% of all […]

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