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Is This Still Good?!?

Food Safety  I am always ask these questions, “is this still good?, do you think this has been in here to long?, should I eat the turkey from 2 weeks ago?”.  My least favorite is “smell this, do you think it’s okay?”  With the holidays, I imagine that you will have the same questions at [...]

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How to Shop at the Grocery Store

I have a fundamental rule when it comes to food: if it’s lying around available, I’m likely to eat it.  If it’s not, I won’t.  I really can’t rely on my somewhat shaky willpower to make sure I always make the best choices in what to eat.  So what’s the best way to make sure junk [...]

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Eat to Live, Don’t Live to Eat

When I think about the phrase “I’m starving to death” I think about what a physician….no, not your wonderful, sweet, kind, thoughtful, caring (is that overkill?) surgeons, told a patient of mine a long time ago…….”It takes a body approximately 40 days to starve itself to death.”  We may have those thoughts but, in reality, [...]

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7 Rules to eat by

This past weekend my little hometown paper (that would be the New York Times) dedicated the entire Sunday magazine to diet and food.  Michael Pollan, who writes often on health related topics, recently collected 2500 different peoples’ “rules for eating” and shared his results in this issue.  Paraphrasing some of them, here are a few [...]

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