tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:47:22 +0000Baby carrotsRetro foodCooking at homeFatartificial sweetenersDigestionChemicalsGadgetsVitamin DFishGreensLongevitylabel readingExerciseYogaDisease preventionKeeping food freshPesticidesMindful eatingGardeningLunchHungerLocal foodOrganicBody imageProduct recallsVegetarian dietsProducts I likeRestaurantsHealingWeight lossgumFast foodnatural brandsGluten freeSoyNot a Health FoodBath and beautySugarAntibioticsRecipesOsteoporosisProcessed foodEating disordersFactory farmingStress eatingSnacksIn pursuit of healthy eating... without getting too crazy about it.http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)Blogger255125MakeFriendsWithFoodhttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-6897745941897342794Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:14:00 +00002011-11-17T13:18:16.032-08:00Weight lossCooking at home ©Dreamstime.com “There are no unhealthy foods. Just unhealthy portion sizes.” I’m always astonished when I hear people say this. No food is bad for you, they insist. It’s just that people eat too much of it. (It's a popular view among processed food manufacturers, not surprisingly.) There’s often a certain smugness underneath. “I eat anything I want; I just eat moderate portions.” (Subtext: http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/11/help-with-helpings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/98OK-x1nTRs" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-2353953154297844030Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:57:00 +00002011-10-19T12:00:20.037-07:00Stress eatingMindful eatingThis post first ran on Make Friends With Food in Oct. 2009, and it made another appearance last year. I don’t recycle my blog posts as a rule, but with the holidays approaching, it’s an ideal time to pause and think about how you’re going to deal with the avalanche of sweet treats headed your way. These are my favorite strategies for enjoying holiday goodies without regrets. Have you ever eaten http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-deal-with-halloween-candy-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)3<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/wxQIIhG8Adw" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-4992794646270523034Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:27:00 +00002011-10-07T12:41:52.507-07:00Local foodLunchFast food Last April, to reward ourselves for surviving an especially grueling winter, my husband and I drove up to Montreal for the weekend. Now, Montreal might not seem like an obvious spot for an early-spring getaway, but we wanted to visit the Butterflies Go Free exhibit at the Montreal Botanical Garden. Piles of dirty snow still lingered on the street corners, but inside the greenhouse it was nice http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/10/celery-root-butterfly-of-vegetables.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)5<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/CM_UBTe94GI" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-6324244348248929236Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:44:00 +00002011-09-23T08:25:42.905-07:00Processed foodA cute teenage girl is washing her hair in the shower. Cut to a shot of blood running down the drain. The girl’s mouth drops open in a scream: sitting on the shower floor is a twin version of herself as a meth addict, hunched over, her body wasted, her face covered in scabs. It’s disturbing and graphic, but it’s not a horror movie - it’s one in a series of hard-hitting public service ads http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/09/change-your-consciousness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/LMUYc5r84VY" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-8723945037998733908Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:04:00 +00002011-09-13T06:09:21.175-07:00DigestionYogaMindful eatingAll of a sudden, fat is no longer evil. Fans of real food have known this for a long time, but now mainstream nutrition is beginning to wake up (better late than never!). In a TIME magazine cover story a couple weeks ago, TV health wizard Dr. Oz actually bestowed his blessing on whole milk and real eggs and chocolate. Chocolate! That means it’s no longer a guilty pleasure - it’s just a pleasure. http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/09/dont-drink-diet-kool-aid.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)7<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/iIiIK01kI04" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-1513097074145190346Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:59:00 +00002011-08-22T05:59:19.272-07:00Cooking at homeRestaurantsProcessed food © Gualberto Becerra | Dreamstime.com The guy bagging my groceries at the food co-op gazed at my bags of brown rice and kale and onions and walnuts and shook his head. “When I see people buying this stuff,” he said, “I just think about how much work it’s going to be to cook it when you get home.” The bagger was an older gentleman with some obvious health problems. I was tempted to ask him http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-to-eat-healthy-without-going-broke.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)7<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/WYa03xmJ2p0" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-449687064647207605Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:25:00 +00002011-08-06T12:51:40.003-07:00Local foodRecipes All right, I suppose it will take more than goofy ‘80s references to make beets sound appealing. They’re one of those vegetables, like turnips and brussels sprouts, that comes loaded with negative baggage - who knows why, but personally I place the blame on comic strip characters whose wives and/or mothers are forever pushing on them healthy foods that (haha, so hilarious) taste awful. Come on, http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/08/beet-it-just-beet-it-whoo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/5vKiYVwbXnk" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-1608373235594203075Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:17:00 +00002011-07-24T07:17:00.633-07:00Stress eatingMindful eatingI’ve just had one of those hellish weeks that come at you out of nowhere. One of our cats quit eating and wedged herself into a dark corner of a closet, never a good sign. We bundled her off to the vet, who ran tests, couldn’t find anything wrong, and sent us home. After two days things had gotten even worse, so back to the vet we went for more tests. Then, a long drive to another (fancier) vet http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/07/feed-yourself-first.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/piGbjzVfG18" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-8516686587392021444Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:46:00 +00002011-06-24T09:30:54.837-07:00Local foodRecipes All the good stuff is starting to come into the farmer’s markets now: lettuce, peas, kale, zucchini, beets, and those incredible STRAWBERRIES, so transcendentally delicious you could eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner (which I have, in fact, been doing). But up until a couple of weeks ago, the selection of local food round these parts was still pretty spare. Much of the real estate at myhttp://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/06/stovetop-baked-beans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)5<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/SCNEhER5iGw" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-7755415257633331873Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:24:00 +00002011-06-07T05:44:00.249-07:00Mindful eatingEating disordersHold on a minute, you say. I’m sick and tired of my food issues. I wish I could be like other people and just eat whatever I want without thinking about it. Sure, you could aspire to eat mindlessly. Or you could thank your lucky stars you’re not like other people and don’t eat unconsciously, the way so many people do. Often, when I start coaching a new client, I’ll ask them to keep a food http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/06/make-your-food-issues-work-for-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)4<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/eRDAOn_bEUY" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-1538354582389909940Fri, 13 May 2011 17:54:00 +00002011-05-14T08:21:53.000-07:00Stress eatingRetro food Photo by T. Yoshizawa At the royal wedding a couple weeks ago, while everyone else obsessed over Kate’s dress and the hallucinatory hats, my attention was snagged by a somewhat peripheral detail: the groom’s cake. Prince William - who could have had any cake he wanted, prepared by any pastry chef in the world - chose a childhood favorite, a chocolate biscuit cake. (Okay, I drooled over Kate’s http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/05/royal-comfort-food.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)4<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/ezPJMxW9qWk" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-2543773824668841570Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:15:00 +00002011-04-15T06:27:27.732-07:00Weight lossMindful eatingAre you starting to see spring flowers popping up in your neighborhood? I envy you! In northern New England, where I live, winter really hangs on for dear life. Here’s a picture of my muddy road right now. If you live in a frosty climate, you may be familiar with mud season. It’s a period of several weeks in the spring when the roads thaw and transform into a substance resembling chocolate http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/04/break-out-of-your-diet-rut.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)4<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/UhFsz9sbDtE" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-784499324187834679Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:02:00 +00002011-03-17T08:09:39.407-07:00DigestionRecipesI’ve always been fascinated by energy medicine, the healing tradition that suggests every disease has specific emotional issues behind it. For example, spinal and joint problems could signal your unconscious belief that you lack support in your life. Cardiovascular disease may reflect your difficulties in expressing love and intimacy. And so on. All right, this is something of an http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/03/sauerkraut-going-with-your-gut.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/2l38AaC6Vxo" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-2524815688888352713Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:22:00 +00002011-03-01T07:26:03.813-08:00Weight lossProcessed foodWell, the USDA’s 2011 Dietary Guidelines for Americans have been out for a month now, and after about thirty seconds in the news spotlight, they’ve faded out of view. Which is for the best, because even though I give the government credit for trying to steer people in the right direction, their official recommendations every five years on what we should eat are reliably lame, lame, lame. You canhttp://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/03/eat-less-good-luck-with-that.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)5<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/nJeoG2KmrE4" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-7502917688834642453Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:57:00 +00002011-01-24T09:00:56.134-08:00DigestionExercise © Galina Barskaya/Dreamstime.com A friend who’s training for the Boston Marathon sent me a Facebook message recently. “I need to change how I eat on race day,” he wrote, “so I don’t bonk like I did last time.” A delightful expression, “bonk.” It means to hit the wall, which is itself an expression that means completely running out of energy, so you’re unable to finish the race. Until now, my http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2011/01/what-to-eat-so-you-dont-bonk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)5<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/9h64U9foCNA" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-4665004621684674017Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:49:00 +00002010-12-06T09:01:33.211-08:00DigestionMindful eatingIn the middle of a violent wind- and rainstorm last week, the power went out. This was around lunchtime. By evening, the juice still wasn’t back on, so I dialed my husband and asked him to bring home some takeout Chinese food. “Sure,” he said. “What do you want?” At this particular restaurant, I usually get steamed shrimp and broccoli, with the sauce on the side. Or if I’m feeling a little morehttp://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2010/12/mistakes-were-made-what-to-do-when-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)7<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/umymdOfIZxk" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-8385400739525309088Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:08:00 +00002010-11-20T08:15:46.020-08:00 I’ve never been tempted to try a raw food diet, partly because I live in a chilly climate and the thought of eating cold food in the wintertime sends shivers down my spine, and partly because all the chopping, juicing, drying, soaking, and sprouting seems like a formidable obstacle. If you think cooking from scratch is time-consuming, you ain’t seen nothing until you’ve cracked a raw-food http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2010/11/cooking-even-more-important-than-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)6<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/kZy-PFr2bdU" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-4074500709261629082Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:49:00 +00002010-11-08T07:18:49.955-08:00DigestionGluten freeI’ll be honest: not long ago I considered gluten-free eating to be just another fad diet. Of course, I understood that people with celiac disease -- in which the body treats gluten as a foreign invader -- must avoid wheat and other gluten-containing foods or suffer serious health consequences. Suddenly, though, it seemed like everyone and their dog was claiming to be gluten intolerant. http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2010/11/whats-up-with-gluten-free-all-of-sudden.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)11<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/QYfleOKU8mc" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-4749543137531033520Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:16:00 +00002010-10-28T08:18:32.392-07:00HungerRecipesCooking at homeI’m not a big fan of soup served at the beginning of a meal, as an appetizer. The truth is, I don’t understand the point of appetizers in general. Are they supposed to whet your appetite? They usually subdue mine instead. Sure, I’ve heard the suggestion that you should eat soup in order to fill up and eat less of the main course. This is the kind of diet advice I find annoyingly http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2010/10/making-soup-main-event.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)11<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/HjZoxHDvnLg" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-7728982679650643936Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:35:00 +00002010-10-21T11:35:13.732-07:00Stress eatingSugarThis post first appeared on Make Friends With Food last October. With the holiday goody season on the horizon, I thought it might be useful to run it again.   Have you ever eaten too much of something, gotten sick, and from that day forward, you could never go near the stuff again? I overdid it on candy corn one Halloween, long after I was old enough to know better. The consequences were, uh..http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2010/10/i-want-candy-how-to-handle-halloween.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)2<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/6DQpmSpuuTw" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-8580993034883358854Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:54:00 +00002010-10-15T07:04:08.749-07:00Local foodOrganicI’ve been sampling a bunch of new food blogs lately, following random links, allowing one website to lead me to the next in that odd way the Internet has of taking you places you never expected to visit. It’s great how many sites these days are devoted to real food -- finding it, cooking it, enjoying it. Yeah, the calorie-counting diet folks are still out there, but whenever I land on one of http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2010/10/real-food-transcends-politics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)5<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/zZTh3Vl4g10" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-3841601358722177270Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:27:00 +00002010-10-08T06:32:36.307-07:00Weight lossStress eatingWait a minute... there’s an upside to out-of-control eating? Of course there is. Otherwise, people wouldn’t do it. If you really want to change your eating behavior but feel like something is holding you back, it’s worth taking a closer look at what the benefits of your current habits might be. How and why we break unhealthy habits has been the subject of intense study by behavioral http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2010/10/pros-and-cons-of-overeating.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)5<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/e0m4sCqQbqo" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-277935825376075956Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:10:00 +00002010-10-01T10:56:04.717-07:00SugarNot a Health Food“Tasty Vegan Food? Cupcakes Show it Can Be Done,” declared the New York Times, in an article spotlighting the vegan chef who won first prize on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars. I notice the Times called the vegan cupcakes “tasty,” not “healthy.” The award-winning recipes don’t contain any butter, eggs, or milk, but that doesn’t make them good for you.  Not even close! One dozen raspberry tiramisu http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2010/10/not-health-food-vegan-cupcakes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)7<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/Y7HYYu1inCw" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-830460589338879060Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:19:00 +00002010-09-24T07:29:58.277-07:00So you’ve been paying more attention to what’s happening in your body (see last week's post, How can I tell if I’m hungry?). You gotten better at distinguishing the sensation of true hunger from anxiety, boredom, and those other unpleasant feelings we often eat to distract ourselves from. Good work! Your next challenge is knowing when to push back from the table. This is a problem for many http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2010/09/help-i-never-know-when-to-stop-eating.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)5<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/-1h3-3bL2NY" height="1" width="1"/>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3919480816536855180.post-2106695528220869747Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:13:00 +00002011-10-17T05:51:05.076-07:00HungerMindful eating Photo by Ernie Kohlsaat Don’t laugh. It’s one of the most frequent questions I’m asked as a health coach. “How do I know if I’m hungry?” The sad truth is, we’ve grown so confused about food that we don’t even know if we’re hungry or not. Do you ever wonder if you’re tired, or whether you have to go to the bathroom? Those physical signals aren’t difficult to interpret. But somehow our hunger http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-can-i-tell-if-im-hungry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Eleanor Kohlsaat)4<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MakeFriendsWithFood/~4/g_Yk9RYxLZ0" height="1" width="1"/>