This year I’ve drastically cut down on coffee. After spending the better part of last year in New York City, nearly drowing in excellent coffee, my addiction had grown somewhat beyond something to be proud of. For a time there I was drinking 2 or 3 strong cups of coffee a day, which seemed necessary at the time, [...]
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The other night, after an unavoidable, packed full weekend, I found myself late at night in front of the tv with a bowlful of cereal. Kashi Go Lean Crunch to be exact. It was a raid through a sad empty kitchen that ended with a late night bowl of cereal. Something I can’t remember doing [...]
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“I was just thinking how weird it is that we eat birds…” Just one of many thought-provoking lines from the deeply and ever compelling 30 Rock. I did, in fact, have that thought before. I used to think eating animals in general was unhealthy before breaking my vegetarian state of living. And you want to know how I broke [...]
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In the film “When Harry met Sally,” there is one conversations between Harry and Sally that always amuses me: Harry: There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance. Sally ask: Which one am I? Harry: You’re the worst kind. You’re high maintenance but you think you’re low maintenance. Sally: I don’t see [...]
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This recipe is an attempt to sway my Dad to eat more greens; putting pork on a salad. This is very unlike my cooking of the past, most of which has consisted of roasted sweet potatoes and lentil salads. Pork is not something I would normally cook. Those who know me, know that I am [...]
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It’s no surprise that the main culprits of weight gain lie in trans fats, processed carbs and loads of sugar. Countless diets seem to hone in on one or the other (being it low-carb, vegetarian, or gluten-free,) making us all believe that doing so turns on some metabolic magical switch that creates fat-burning machines. In [...]
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This month Better Vita is dedicated to helping have your healthiest and most enjoyable Christmas yet. Honing down on being “healthy” may seem like a daunting task but think of it as setting yourself up for success. My friend Dr. Brooke is onto the same idea. She is a Nautropathic Doctor who is as brilliant [...]
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With my family, Christmas time is the perfect excuse to bake cookies every 7 days of the week. So many different kinds of cookies are in our house by Christmas that it feels like a live-in bakery. Buckeyes, thumbprint raspberry jam cookies, almond biscotti’s, double chocolate drops, cinnamon and sugar rugelach… you name it, we [...]
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“‘Tis the season”… to blow a lot of money on Starbucks holiday drinks. Who can blame you though, when visions of eggnog lattes and peppermint mochas dance in your head when entering the aesthetically appeasing franchise . Starbucks is a place I frequent – holidays or not. And after working there 6 years plus, you’d think [...]
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It’s official. Starbucks is now serving coffee in their red and loud, festive Christmas cups. The Holiday season is here! No other 2 months of the year seem to go by as quickly as November and December for me. Probably because I get so ridiculously excited for the holidays. As a kid the first week [...]
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