How much food is really enough?Written by Darryn Aldridge
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3. Don’t serve at table: I saved myself a lot of grief by taking action on this point. While it is very nice to have a table full of food served in nice dishes, for people coming to terms with their weight, this is a huge no no. The temptation that a table full of food presents to you will tempt even strongest of wills. Remove temptation by making sure that all food is portioned at time of serving in kitchen. You will be more likely to have seconds if food is sitting on table staring at you, invitingly, than if you have to leave table and go to kitchen. 4. Cleaning up: So you’ve done all right things so far and now it is time to clean up after your meal. We are now presented with another brilliant opportunity to overeat again. I love picking at food when I am putting it away. I could actually finish all left overs at this point and not even realize what was happening! Try and get a member of your family to clear away any of left over food before you tackle dishes, or put leftovers straight in fridge after serving to resist ”dishes overeating”. Most of these issues surrounding weight gain are just bad habits that have formed over years. Simple steps are often all that are needed to help break these bad habits and form better ones. All it takes is some self control and desire to get ball rolling towards a more fulfilling and healthier lifestyle.
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| | Mad Cow Disease RevisitedWritten by Thomas Ogren
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But then think of what this actually meant: they were feeding hens their own manure. Also, in these highly confined cages hens would often die and owners would just pull a dead hen from cage and toss it into manure under cages. Thus, when they "re-processed" all that manure, there were plenty of chicken carcasses in it too. This would mean that they were now feeding chickens to chickens. In mad cow disease we now know that prions are not killed by heat treatment. Feeding manure back to animals may make some sense from a purely monetary point of view, but from a larger, humanistic, holistic way of looking at things, it seems to be nothing but a recipe for disaster. It would seem that there needs to be more control exercised on what can be fed to not just cattle, but to all domestic farm animals. Our own health is at risk here, and in a sense of fair play, this practice seems to be more than a little insulting to animals themselves. Tom Ogren Author of Allergy-free Gardening, and of, Safe Sex in Garden www.allergyfreegardening.com
Thomas Ogren is the author of Allergy-Free Gardening, Ten Speed Press. Tom does consulting work on plants and allergies for the USDA, county asthma coalitions, and the Canadian and American Lung Associations. He has appeared on HGTV and The Discovery Channel. His book, Safe Sex in the Garden, was published in 2003. In 2004 Time Warner Books published his latest book: What the Experts May NOT Tell You About: Growing the Perfect Lawn. His website: www.allergyfree-gardening.com
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