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Get Healthy Holly – Milk it!

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by Holly Hickman on 03/10/2010

A question from a reader:

Would Healthy Holly drink raw milk?

Yes, indeedy, Healthy Holly would — and has.  It’s delicious and makes me feel sassy.  (Don’t be put off by the word “raw”: vegetables, sushi and carpaccio are all raw, and normally just fine.)  Do I exclusively drink raw milk?  No.  I drink the best milk available at any given time.  How does one determine this?  Let’s milk a good/better/best list.

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Get Healthy: When Downsizing is a Good Thing

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by Holly Hickman on 03/03/2010

We’ll do more weightloss tips soon, but in the meantime, here’s a quick one you can take to the table tonight:

Do you eat your meals on hubcaps? The larger your plate, the larger the amount you’ll likely eat in one sitting.  Try downsizing to smaller plates and bowls tonight: you’ll trick your eyes into thinking you’ve got more food on your plate than you actually do, and if you eat slowly, you’ll likely eat less than normal.

These bananas are the same size. Trick your eyes by downsizing.

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Seven Tips for Losing – and Keeping Off — Weight

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Years ago, I gained 40 pounds.  The story behind that will have to take up a whole ‘nother post — and likely a drink or two and perhaps a modicum of Irish keening.  The point, my dear reader, is that through hard work and smart choices, I lost the weight.  Methinks it’s wandering around on [...]

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How to Choose a Good Egg, Part 2

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It’s part deux of our series on choosing high-quality eggs: let’s get right into making good, better and best choices when shopping for them.  A reader asked:
What kind of eggs would Healthy Holly eat?
Healthy Holly would eat the best choice available. Here’s how to determine what that is:

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How to Choose a Good Egg, Part One

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Free-range.  Free-roaming.  Vegetarian.  Pastured.  Farm-fresh.  White.  Brown.  Organic.  Omega-3 enriched.  Not Certified Organic, but Certified Humane.
Choosing a good egg on the shelf can be as confounding as choosing one in real life.  But here are some tips to get you started.

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Wanna be a babe? Sleep like one.

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I ran into a friend at a party the other night who said he’d spent the past week “recovering.”  Miami had just hosted the Super Bowl, and my friend, who’s normally in fine shape and not a night crawler, had just hosted a number of late-night events for some football-loving out-of-towners. “The food thing,” he [...]

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