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Category Archive for 'Healthy Living'

Nature’s Wonder

Posted in Healthy Living on Sep 28th, 2007

My extended family spends everyother Thanksgiving at Hocking Hills State Park. We eat, hike, eat, play dominoes, sleep, & eat some more. Did I mention that we eat?

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Gluttony

Posted in Healthy Living on Feb 3rd, 2006

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
–Henry David Thoreau

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Linux Recipe Manager

Posted in Healthy Living on Dec 28th, 2005

I’m going to give this a try. Somewhere I have a bunch of MealMaster files from days gone by.
From SourceForge.net
August Project of the Month (POTM): Gourmet Recipe Manager
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Gourmet is a recipe manager designed for the GNOME desktop but
functional on any platform with GTK, including Windows. Gourmet makes it
easy to search for recipes, generate shopping [...]

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DASH Diet

Posted in Healthy Living on Dec 28th, 2005

There is a newly packaged diet plan introduced by a department of the National Institute of Health that aims to reduce or prevent hypertension. The claim is that a healthy diet in combination with sodium reduction will reduce blood pressure levels - in some cases within two weeks. Get the PDF, review it carefully & [...]

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Low Sodium Cooking

Posted in Healthy Living on Dec 28th, 2005

Dick Logue has put together a nice site about low sodium cooking, and he has a book at Cafe Press. (I don’t make a dime from this, just want to make you aware of a resource). The blurb about the book talks about having recipes for sauces, mixes & dressings in addition to main dishes [...]

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Nutritional Recommendations

Posted in Healthy Living on Dec 28th, 2005

Caloric Requirements
Let’s start by figuring out what my caloric requirements should be. From this link, I need about 2200 calories per day. If I kick up the excersize, I should get about 2500. I burn around 3079 calories per day. To lose weight & burn fat, I need to eat 500 calories less per day [...]

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Getting Started…

Posted in Healthy Living on Dec 28th, 2005

I recently came across this which has links for some health related things I’m looking for.
The triglycerides link says that I’d really like to have the triglecerides under 150.
An interesting quote from the “Causes” page about High Triglycerides:
Although not a cause of high triglycerides, metabolic syndrome is closely associated with this condition. People with metabolic [...]

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