Category Archives: Live Happy

Thoughts on Life Planning For The New Year

By ns | Published: December 5, 2011
It’s been five months since my vacation on Martha’s Vineyard where I wrote my life plan in my “Lil Fat Notebook” on the beach and posted the article “Dreams do Come True (If you Make Them).”
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Nancy Deville interviewed by Stephanie Stephens: Mind Your Body

By ns | Published: November 30, 2011
Nancy Deville interviewed by Stephanie Stephens Mind Your Body
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Shopping for Real Food on a Budget

By ns | Published: November 21, 2011
My last blog "How to Grocery Shop Like a Hunter-Gatherer," generated a lot of discussion. One complaint was that eating real food is too expensive for many Americans. I present ideals when I write about food. If only everyone could eat real, whole, living food our health care problems would decline. Unfortunately tax dollars do not go to subsidizing small farmers and ranchers, but to corporations that grow the soy, corn and wheat that go into making the factory food products that are ruining our health. Although I could go on a major rant about that, it's more productive to think of ways to help financially challenged Americans find ways to improve their nutrition.
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‘Tis The Season Of Sugar

By ns | Published: November 17, 2011
Of the 156 pounds of sugar Americans each consume every year, it’s likely that 20 pounds of that is consumed during the holidays. But before we laser focus on holiday bingeing, let’s clarify carbs. Because it’s really important to understand that it’s not just 156 pounds of sugar/high fructose corn syrup that deliver glucose into our bloodstreams. We also eat hundreds of pounds of other carbohydrates, like cereal, toaster pastries, potato chips, French fries, candy, cookies, pancakes, waffles, corn chips, pretzels, cake, pie, pastry, donuts, bread, pizza, pasta, muffins, granola, dried fruit, and cornbread.
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How to Shop Like a Hunter-Gatherer

By ns | Published: November 14, 2011
Just because we don't have to actually pick, gather, milk, hunt or fish for our food doesn't mean that we can walk into a market in a daze and load up the cart without thinking. We have to be as vigilant as if we're out on the savanna scouting for the next meal. We need to be modern hunter-gatherers.
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