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Healthy Foodie Principles: How to Be a Healthy Foodie “The
Healthy Foodie” loves to eat, cook, eat out, and share good times with friends and family—and also wants
to live a long, vigorous life. Our philosophy is you can have both: revel in the enjoyment of food
and keep yourself in good shape.
| The culinary experts! A Course in Miracles Group |
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Our recipes use a fusion of great spices, low sodium and nutritious ingredients, everything you need to eat healthy but not compromise on gustatory delight!
We have articles and more recipes in the Whole Living Journal.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009
1:42 pm edt
Dining at Honey in Northside
Mary Ann & Pama, along with their husbands, had dinner
on Friday 9/25 at Honey--one of several good Northside restaurants. (It's Pama's
favorite among Northside choices and in my top 5 Cincinnati restaurants overall). Chef Shoshannah Hafner uses local ingredients
whenever possible and outdoes herself with every marvelous course--with the best of all possibly being dessert. Healthy foodies
don't always, or even usually, indulge in desserts, though. Mary Ann passed on a post-dinner sweet treat altogether, while
Pama finished up with a cup of satisfying Mexican Hot Chocolate--not rich with cream, but deep in flavor thanks to spices. 
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Welcome to the NEW Healthy Foodie website!
Mary Ann Barnes, an MD with a specialty in nutrition, and Pama Mitchell, a Cincinnati journalist and
University of Cincinnati professor, welcomes new readers to our site. Please click around the site, but note that we have
a lot more to add to it as the days and weeks go on. So keep checking back for more. And please post comments about what you
like, don't like, and would like to see more of.
Thanks!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Check out Pama's Healthy Foodies blog
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The Healthy Foodie website is all about: Helping you make healthy choices
when you eat out Finding
ways to add physical activity - exercise - to your daily routines Tips for snacking smart Creative ideas to add more fruits and veggies to your family's diet Separating fad nutrition and diets
from sound scientific information How to eat healthy on a budget Raising children with healthy eating habits Controlling/losing weight ... AND MUCH MORE!
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I have been blessed to have wonderful companions
with whom to study and grow spiritually. We are on our collective tenth time plodding through the Course in Miracles,
with interludes of other texts like The Practice of the Presence of God, and The Disappearance of the Universe.
We strive to be students of living in the moment, forgiveness and letting go of our ego. The group, however, serves as my tasters,
the assayers, who are the first to try my new recipes. I am certain they must lie awake on the night before our monthly
meeting, wondering what kind of dish I will serve them (usually tofu) and will it be spicy (one of the things I crave.
The other being dark chocolate!). Then, after coming hungry and watching me put the finishing touches on the meal, they
wait patiently as I fumble through the picture-taking process. These are great friends and wonderful people who love me as I am, an animated spirit
having an imperfect human experience. I appreciate their honest gustatory feedback on my successes and not-quite-so
successful experiments. A hearty 'Toast' to them!
 The Healthy Foodie goes to Terrys Turf Club! Eating healthfully doesn't
mean you can't enjoy going to this fun restaurant, known for having the best hamburgers in town! See our restaurant
review by clicking on the picture.
How did these pounds stick to me? Why
is it that weight seems to accumulate as our birthdays mount? Our
understanding of fat (weight) gain is not an exact science. Several theories suggest that weight gain tends to level
off with simple added calories. However, over time our caloric needs drop, making even small increases in our intake
stick to us like glue. The US national assessment health
(called NHANES) was started in the 70's and is reassessed every 5 years or so. The first assessment determined that
the average BMI for women aged 20 - 29 was 23 (19 - 25 is normal). In 2003, the average BMI for women aged 50 - 59 was
29 (overweight). These theoretically are the same women, which reflects a 30 pound weight gain over the 30 years.
One pound a year. The weight slips on insidiously, one pound at a time.
What kind of change is needed to cause an increase of 1 pound a year? Eating one extra 60-calorie cookie
a day. Or drinking 1 ounce of sugar-sweetened drink per day. Or walking 1 minute less a day. Small
changes over a life time make a big difference.
Whatever you do to control weight, you must do for the rest
of your life. Weight gain is insidious. Weight maintenance or loss needs constant vigilence!
Weight loss / maintenance is difficult. Watch those
small weight gains, as obesity happens 1 pound at a time. My book, Fat Cells, Beauty and You!,
brings together how your body stores calories, why exercise is important, and how to determine how much of which
foods is best for you. Psychological and spiritual factors of why we eat are also reviewed. And it's a bargain!
--- short, easy to read and inexpensive on Amazon.
Go to the book
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