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Eleanor Kohlsaat

Norwich, Vermont
Blog: http://makefriendswithfood.blogspot.com/
I'm a certified health counselor and writer. I spent half a lifetime struggling with food and my weight, bouncing from one diet to the next, before I finally figured out the only way to win the diet game is not to play. Rather than viewing food as the enemy, I learned to love eating healthy,... Full Bio
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Your Halloween candy strategy by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Have you ever eaten too much of something, gotten sick, and from that day forward, you could never go near the stuff again? I overdid it on candy corn one Halloween, long aft ... Read on »
Your Halloween candy strategy by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Have you ever eaten too much of something, gotten sick, and from that day forward, you could never go near the stuff again? I overdid it on candy corn one Halloween, long a ... Read on »
R.I.P. Gourmet magazine by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating For years, my mother and I have shared a subscription to Gourmet magazine. The copy lands in her mailbox, but she doesn’t get around to reading it for a few months. Then she ... Read on »
Soda tax opponents insist all calories are equal. Not! by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating There’s been talk lately -- in New York City and elsewhere -- about imposing a tax on sugary soft drinks. The tax would not only raise money for economically strapped city go ... Read on »
Amazing amaranth by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating A friend recently emailed me to say he’d bought a bag of amaranth, and did I have any information about it? All I knew was that amaranth is a tiny seed from a plant native to ... Read on »
When good recipes go bad by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Strangely enough for a foodie, I don’t enjoy cooking for its own sake. What I mean by that is, I don’t putter in the kitchen to entertain myself, to relax and unwind, or expr ... Read on »
Should you keep a diet journal? by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Let me start out by saying: I’m not a big fan of food journals, most of the time, anyway. What? Just about every weight loss plan, diet book, and personal trainer worth ... Read on »
Local food: Green beans by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating We live 40 minutes away from the grocery store, the bookstore, the pharmacy, Home Depot, the Gap, and everything else in life, so we’ve learned the fine art of adaptation. If ... Read on »
Eating to prevent the flu by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating It's hard not to be freaked out by warnings about swine flu, or at the very least, confused by all the conflicting information out there. For every news bulletin predicting t ... Read on »
Let's hear it for convenience! by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Okay, so last week I went after processed food with a bit more zeal than usual. The truth is, my own kitche n is not a package-free zone. There are plenty of foods in my frid ... Read on »
Smart Choices are anything but by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Nutrition watchdog, author, and NYU health professor Marion Nestle calls out the ridiculous Smart Choices program this week in her blog, Food Politics. Smart Choices is ... Read on »
Who's making America fat? by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Our national discussion about America’s obesity crisis, and how to fix it, has reached a decibel level roughly equivalent to that of a jet engine. As with most heated argumen ... Read on »
Things to look forward to this fall by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I’m a confirmed warm-weather lover, so I always greet fall with mixed feelings. Sure, I like the colors, the crisp sunny days, everyone’s renewed sense of energy and purpose, ... Read on »
Are you a Health Cop? by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I always consider it a positive sign when one of my clients shifts her focus away from her own problems with food and starts complaining that her loved ones don’t listen to h ... Read on »
Waste not: Fried green tomatoes by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating It was only a few weeks ago that I was standing in my vegetable garden, surveying my huge, healthy tomato plants laden with unripe fruit and wondering what I was going to do ... Read on »
Exercise: No good for weight loss? by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating Last week’s TIME article reporting that exercise actually interferes with weight loss was a classic example of what’s so frustrating about health news. First something’s good ... Read on »
Local food: Cherry tomatoes by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I’m an on-again, off-again gardener, but even in my off years, I like to grow a cherry tomato plant in a container. If you think of cherry tomatoes as the one or two hard tas ... Read on »
Fresh vegetables a la carte by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating You might remember my recent post bemoaning the lack of healthy mobile food vendors. There are plenty of junky lunch trucks, and nowadays there are also gourmet wagons sellin ... Read on »
Women eat less in front of men by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating A memorable scene in Margaret Mitchell’s classic novel Gone With the Wind: Scarlett O’Hara is getting dressed to go to the elegant barbecue at Twelve Oaks, where, of course, s ... Read on »
A nutrition makeover for pancakes by Eleanor Kohlsaat Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthy Eating I’m an early riser and my husband is a late sleeper, so as you might imagine, we rarely eat breakfast together. But sometimes we have breakfast for dinner. Whenever time is s ... Read on »
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