The other night I was having dinner with some old friends I hadn’t seen in a while, and my one friend was eating a lot of butter on his bread. My other friend was making fun of him, and I said: “Well! Butter is good for you!”. She looked at me and said incredulously: “No […]

The word “calorie” has a negative connotation. In reality the word is very neutral, even positive. Calories are how we have begun to measure the energy in food- which is a potentially harmless concept if it is seen as a positive thing. Calories are our sustenance and life force. It is the energy we consume […]

I turned to Paleo thinking I was being intuitively led to my health and hormonal balance. I was already pretty steady intuitive-eating-wise, but Paleo sent me back into another obsessed frenzy, nearly a year ago. Looking back now, I get frustrated and sad that I hadn’t learned my lesson from all my other diet fails […]