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    • The Sneaky Chef
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      This is a book that I'm very excited about. I've only tried 2 recipes from it (and 1 was so-so), but the premise is great. It's written by a mother of a picky eater and she's devised ways of cooking foods with hidden nutrients: beans, spinach, cauliflower, carrots, sweet potatoes, etc. While Kadie loves broccoli and green beans, I haven't been able to get her to eat sweet potatoes since she was a baby (and I haven't even tried spinach). Even someone like me, who loves most vegetables, finds it...

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    • HFCS
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      Not for the faint of heart, but certainly good info for parents and anyone interested in their own health. If you can get past the high frequency of the term"murky," this website contains good info.This one's a little more in-depth.One from the San Francisco Chronicle...And one from the Washington Post...I could go on and on. This is in reference to some current research into whether or not Kadie's diet is contributing to her sometimes overly active behavior. While we try to feed her...

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    • Take It or Leave It...

      Found this at ediets.com...It's long so I won't indent with quotes.Here are five easy tips to guide your eating decisions on a regular basis. Even if you just choose one aspect to follow, your body will thank you for it.1. Know your fats. There are three kinds of fats found in food and regulating your intake of them can have dramatic effects on your health.First, try to eliminate trans fats. These show up in packaged foods as hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils. Read the labels and if a...

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    • New "sugars" That Won't Raise Your Insulin

      Erythritol and Inulin (or a"subspecies" of it - Oligofructose) are fairly new products that I've been doing some research on and they're sounding really good. For those of you that are interested in watching their carb and/or sugar intake, they sound like wonderful products - especially inulin.Here's some of what I found (most of it is copied text, but I didn't want to push it over with block quotes because there's a lot of info here):Maltitol (the main sweetener in most low-carb or"sugar...

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    • Diet
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      Just a quick note to any that are interested...I've been reading a book that makes a lot of sense when you get right down to it. It's called Metabolic Typing Diet by William Wescott.It has some wonderful advice to help clarify all the"nutritional information" that we're constantly being bombarded with. The book's main focus is on developing a healthier you, from the ground up. It maintains that, instead of"diagnosing" your ailments and treating them, piece by piece,"fix" yourself on a basic...

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