Side Effects may include weight loss
Health and comfortable longevity are the reasons to take one every day. Improved strength, balance and flexibility, too. The likely side effect: looking better in your swimsuit at the beach this summer.
Slower Sunday: Bend over and sniff
Hard not to stop, bend over and sniff every one. I feel like my dog. Even if you were blindfolded, you'd be overwhelmed by all the scents. Really slows you down.
June. I lose 5 lbs. It’s the lettuce.
Every June. I lose five pounds. I don't try to. It's all the amazingly flavorful greens we get from our CSA farm share. There's not much room left on the plate for anything else. So you eat a lot less of the high-calorie stuff. And you get inventive with lettuce.
To Train in Spain, Climb Above the Plain
I found myself in Spain during the final two weeks of training for my ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro. So I found a nice little mountain to practice on. Right in the middle of wine country, near the border of La Rioja and the Basque Country. You want to know about this place.
80 Ways: Lettuce. Size Matters.
80 recipes from traditional healthy cuisines around the world. From places and times that never heard of diabetes, overweight/obesity and cardiovascular disease epidemics. Like the time of the Great Depression.Hunger. Scarcity. Or just anxiety about scarcity. Something that's very right now for a lot of people, don't you think? Time for this big, fat sandwich that's a light, refreshing, crunchy and luscious Way to get more leafy greens into your diet.
80 Ways: To Cook A Wolf
80 recipes from traditional healthy cuisines around the world. From places and times that never heard of diabetes, overweight/obesity and cardiovascular disease epidemics. Like the time of the Great Depression. The wolf at the door was hunger. Or scarcity. Or anxiety about scarcity. Something that's very right now for a lot of people, don't you think? Time for this cool, flavorful lettuce soup.
Summer Stretch: butt up, hamstrings out
Because flexible muscles make everything easier and less tiring. Now, on the floor. On your back. To improve the flexibility of your hamstrings and the strength of the surrounding core muscles that support them and your lower back.
Slower Sunday: No draining this swamp
No alligators up here. No crocodiles. No politicians to drain. It's safe and it's quiet up here. Whole new way to think about swamps.
80 Ways: The Spanish Tortilla
80 recipes based on traditional healthy cuisines around the globe. They all have two things in common: no highly processed foods and very low daily glycemic loads. Like this flavorful and satisfying egg-and-potato preparation, a cool frittata-like dish. Perfect for today: National Egg Day.