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Get Going: How to Love Your Body — Part One

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by Holly Hickman on 03/09/2010

Step number one?

“Be present.  Be present in your body.”

So says Shannon Mairs, a remarkable woman who empowers people — women in particular — to fully inhabit and love their bodies.

photo courtesy of Shannon Mairs

How does she do it?
Click HERE to find out.

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Ya’ll.

I’m in my hometown right now, one we Texans like to call Big Day.  And I’ve got some delicious information for you: it’s Thursday, so it’s time for the Chews Well Weekly Letter, suggesting Where the Health to Eat this weekend. The full letter — with all the restaurant names I omit here — goes out to buyers of Healthy Eats Here!, my healthy dining guide.

Although I’m in Dallas, this week we spotlight a chef who is reason in and of himself to move to North Carolina.  (Reason number dos: they speak ya’ll there.)  He’s the Keeper of the Spatulas and the Whiz-Bang of Knives at Acme.  He’s also the eco-chef who manages to stay so slim, and everything else he had to say was so interesting and thoughtful and sizzlin’, I figured I’d slap our whole dang interview into a podcast.  Enjoy!

Click HERE for Good Grub!

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Get Going: Vancouver/Whistler in the Summer

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I have confession to make: I didn’t watch the Olympics this year.  OK, there was the Men’s Curling event that I half-caught on TV one afternoon at the gym one day last week.  (And, I must admit; I kinda liked it.  Curling is geeky.  It involves physics.  And the Canadians were pretty yummy.)  But because [...]

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Where to Eat Out | Eat Well | Eat Healthy This Week

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It’s Week 2 of my Healthy Eats Here! letter, which goes out to buyers of my sustainable dining guide.  (If you’re looking for clean meat, organic dairy and/or local produce when dining out, Healthy Eats Here! is THE guide.  And it’s packed into a portable e-form to boot!)
I’m posting the newsletter here, omitting a few [...]

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When a Vegan Cooks Duck: Limits, Paths and Shifting Sands

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So, the other night, a gentle, lovely vegan whom I cherish made me dinner.  Among the 273 dishes she just happened to casually whip up in our honor: Roasted duck.  Pâté.  And an egg-and-milk-happy Swedish cardamom cake.
It was, no doubt, the best duck of my life.
“But isn’t she a vegan?” my husband whispered as we [...]

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If you want to lose weight, help someone else lose weight.

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So says Craig Ballantyne, a jaw-droppingly fit, soft-spoken, highly intelligent young man I had the pleasure of meeting while squealing like an idiot over Queen Latifah and Wyclef during some midnight South Beach Stupid Bowl shenanigens.
I should clarify: CB was not squealing.  He is Canadian and therefore modest and classy.  I, however, was so shocked [...]

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