What makes you grateful to feel your feet hit the ground every morning? What gets you up and out? Here are some of the things that inspire my work and keep me rockin’ and rollin’: Continue reading
Category Archives: Gratitude & Inspiration
A Poem for the New Year
In honor of the New Year, I share here a poem by the artist, author and educator Judy Chicago. I am inspired in particular by the last part of this poem, and by the idea that as health and wellness improve and flourish in our homes and communities, the medical-care delivery economy must, inevitably, shrink. More beans and greens means fewer dialysis centers. Fewer food deserts, fewer heart attacks. More physical activity, less depression. Continue reading
#Mindful Being
A few words today encouraging you to be mindful, to be kind to yourself, to help yourself to remain centered, especially in the spinning vortex of ceaseless activity that will characterize the coming weeks of nonstop celebration. Continue reading
Milestone Celebration: Your Favorite Posts
This weekend Your Health is on Your Plate passed 100,000 hits! Just two years old, the blog is being shared far and wide, across the country and around the globe. To celebrate, dear reader, I am sharing your 10 most popular posts. New readers, here is your chance to catch up with all the best posts and to share them with your friends and family. It’s not too late, in fact, it’s never too late.
So, drumroll please, your favorite choices for best blog post (in no particular order) are:
- Leaves, Stems, and Buds: Cruciferous Vegetables
- Instant Oatmeal, Steel-cut Oats, and Everything In Between
- Juice and Soda Increase Your Risk of Diabetes and Obesity
- Let’s Start at the Very Beginning
- Maybe Hillary Clinton Reads My Blog
- What the Vegan, Mayo Clinic, and Atkins Diets Have in Common
- Hospital Food
- How Low-Carb Can You Go?
- Don’t Eat Bread for Breakfast
- Coffee Whiteners (Go ahead and Google this phrase!)
That’s not all. I’m sharing my own favorite posts as well: Maybe you’ll discover something that speaks to you, or explains something you’ve been wondering about, or brings it all together, or raises the MOST important question you’ve ever thought of, in which case I hope you’ll send me that question immediately, so that I can think about it and respond as best I can.
By the way, if it already appears in your list above, I am not including it in my list.
Again in no particular order, a few of my own favorites for Best Post are:
Finally, speaking of favorites, many thanks to all of you for the great recipes that continue to come our way, and thank you for reading YHIOYP.