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articles by: Sarah Cooke
5 Insights About Emotional Eating
Earlier this week, I started writing what I hope are inspirational insights about food and our relationship with it, that I intend to post on my blog, Real Food Underground. I will soon be posting one…
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A Diet of Compassion Will Help You Lose Weight
During the holiday season, I had three celebratory meals, all in the span of a week. I had beef roast, turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, dim sum, cake, pie, sugarplums and crab bisque. Eve…
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Why You Should Care About Gut Health
This week, I've been experimenting with taking lactase supplements before eating anything with lactose. Lactase is the enzyme that helps us digest lactose. I suspect I might have trouble digesting lac…
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Geeky Food Trends, and Why They’re Awesome
At the risk of sounding a little geeky, I'm going to tell you something about myself. I think canning is super cool. A few months ago, I was given a steam canner as a gift and let me tell you, it's am…
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Could Extra Weight Help You Live Longer?
A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control found that being a little overweight (not obese) seems to be associated with about a six percent lower risk of premature death. Predictably, there are…
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Could How We Eat Be As Important As What We Eat?
As I write this blog, I'm getting ready to heat up a bowl of crab bisque for lunch - leftovers from Christmas dinner. In fact, I had three celebratory meals this holiday season, all in the span of a w…
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Maybe Happiness Isn’t So Complicated
A few days ago, I had a wonderful conversation with a friend about what it takes to be happy. The conversation convinced me that we often make it more complicated than it needs to be. Of course, the…
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3 Chocolates Making a Difference
When we think of decadent indulgence, we often think of chocolate. And with the antioxidants present in dark chocolate, this indulgence (in moderation, of course) has some health benefits, as well. …
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3 Alternative New Year’s Eve Celebrations
With Christmas rapidly approaching and the New Year not far behind, this is a good time to slow down and mindfully consider how we'd like to end this year and start the next one. The end of December i…
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Should We Lie to Kids About Santa Claus?
I really love Christmas. The tree decorating, the egg nog, the cheesy Hallmark movies - I love it all. And that's partly due to the fact that I'm lucky enough to have had a lot of great Christmases as…
79 commentsabout Sarah Cooke
Sarah Cooke is a writer living in California. She is interested in organic food and green living. Sarah holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Naropa University, an M.A. in Humanities from NYU, and a B.A. in Political Science from Loyola Marymount University. She has written for a number of publications, and she studied Pastry Arts at the Institute for Culinary Education. Her interests include running, yoga, baking, and poetry. Read more on her blog.
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