Category Archives: Nutrition Primer

Nourishing Yourself With Joy

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Joy has been in the news lately, and that’s what I want to talk about today. 

Eating is meant to be a source of joy, as satisfying as the sunrise. Like listening to music. Talking with friends, or sitting together on a bench at the park. The wind at your back. Trading backrubs. Dancing. Stretching. A hot shower. A book that transports you to the other side of the universe. Walking along the shore. 

Eating is deeply satisfying. It speaks to your soul. Eating is sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, umami. Crunchy, soft, toothy, smooth, sticky. Beautiful, colorful, warm, cool, icy, bubbly. Expressive, imaginative. Fun, chaotic, quiet, or peaceful. Continue reading →

Returning to the Beginning: Two Core Messages

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Today I want to focus on two of the core messages to which I continue to return time and time again: First, there is an enormous difference between real food and manufactured calories. And, second, as we have been discussing at length in recent weeks, manufactured calories have been associated with an epidemic of chronic diseases, including not only diabetes, coronary artery disease, and obesity, but also depression, dementia, and other brain diseases. Continue reading →

Milestone Celebration: Your Favorite Posts

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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:

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.