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At times I like to believe I am super woman and I can run a 20 ring circus and keep it all together…all the time. But, I must admit that although I maybe able to do many many things at once and do them well… there is always a price to pay… something always [...]
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Lately, I have this weird desire to grow things. ANYTHING. I want to know I can keep something alive I suppose. But, I have literally killed every flower and several cacti I have ever been given or purchased. BAD! SO BAD! But, no one in my family gardens. I don’t live near a garden. The [...]
Sometimes I can get so unbelievably run down. Maybe it’s stress, fatigue, or the chronic Vit D issue. A few years back a nutritionist friend suggested I looked into Coenzyme Q10 or (CoQ10). I had never heard of it before so I did some searching…as usual. I read up on it and quickly ran to [...]
Hi Ya’ll, This month I am starting a brand new cross blogging relationship with the awe inspiring Heather Robertson. She has a wonderful site called Halfsizeme.com which chronicles her amazing weight loss. Heather lost 170 pounds (108 of it since starting Weight Watchers 18-months ago) and she did it all while having 3 children (all [...]
DAY 1: CARDIO PLYOMETRIC Starting back to the beginning of the disc in week two really allowed me to see how far I had come in just one week. I have definitely gotten stronger. Well..at least I was able to go further into he video before feeling as if I was totally going to die. [...]
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I use to be a super fit person. The operative words here are USE TO BE. I played sports my entire life, danced, and living in NYC meant lots and lots of walking. I was able to keep up the my 5-6 day a week regimen pretty well up until a few years ago. Then [...]
To Juice or Not to Juice… If you asked me this time last year what I thought about “juicing”, the first thing to pop into my head would have been yet another pro-athlete accused of taking performance enhancing drugs. It most definitely would not have involved vegetables. But, now when I talk to family and [...]
OOOH FIBER! I had an off-hand conversation with a friend from work that lasted 45 minutes about her confusion over fiber. It went something like: “why do I need fiber? Isn’t there more than one type of fiber? What kind of fiber do I need? Is one better than the other? Why does fiber make [...]
Have you ever heard of Vitamin U? Don’t worry you’re not alone. I was walking around my favorite big box store a few weeks back and I saw an older man grabbing two giant bottles of Vitamin U supplements. What the hell is that I wondered. I have never heard of Vitamin U. Is this yet another fad in the health world? I needed to investigate. Dunt dunt dunnnn… Fingerlickinkitchen to the rescue.
Vitamin U was discovered by Dr. Garrett Cheney in 1952. He found that cabbage juice helped heal stomach ulcers. Which is how Vitamin U got it’s nickname from the Latin word Ulcus. Vitamin U, or S methylmethionine, is not actually a vitamin at all, but a derivative of methionine an essential amino acid (check out my Amino Acid blog entry)
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“Everybody keeps telling me to eat Kale. Seriously, what in the hell is the big deal about Kale! ”
I was talking to a group of writer friends last night and the subject of Kale came up randomly. Well, not so randomly actually. Someone asked what I was up to and I mentioned fingerlickinkitchen of course. Which another friend so lovingly described as: the place where I make “cookies out of water”. Not really what I do but, hilarious none the less. The conversation some how meandered to Kale to which the statement above was made. I love these sorts of conversations! It is fodder for me to write about but, also a concrete way I can help others in this maddening quest to breakdown the mystery around food! So yeah, what the hell’s the big deal about Kale? Continue reading