Q: My kids visit me (the dad) pretty much every weekend, and I'm committed to feeding them nutritious food and teaching them about being healthy. But their mom, who's responsible for them during the week, lets them eat whatever they want. I don't want their visits with me to turn into "food fights" – any advice on how to handle this situation? Keep Reading…
Q: Is it better to eat several small meals throughout the day ("grazing"), or two or three larger ones, assuming I'm getting the same number of calories either way?
A: Let's say you run a business, and one of the things you need to do is check and respond to email. If you're like almost everyone I know, you get lots and lots of emails. More than you want. More than you know what to do with. And more than you can effectively respond to with 100% accuracy and attention.
You can't just stop doing email. If you didn't communicate effectively with folks, you'd be out of business. But you can't just do email either. You do the minimum to keep you functioning, and then spend the rest of your time doing more strategic work.
Q: I want to get my boys off the fast foods, but I'm not ready to start learning how to cook. What ingredients should I definitely stay away from And are there any ingredients that sound bad but are OK? Keep Reading…
Q: What does one do to start meditating? Do you have to take a class? Keep Reading…
Q: How do I get a kid to change from being used to eating junk food to healthy food? Sugar and fat just make foods so much yummier and I imagine there's some major withdrawal from being used to sweet and fat foods.
A: Sugar and fat make foods yummy not because God hates us and wants us to look bad in bathing suits and spandex, but because these substances are chock full of easily digested calories. For most of history, living beings faced two big problems: getting a date on Saturday night, and getting enough food to stay alive during the famine. In those days, it made sense to load up on the calories you found in a big slab of animal fat or hanging from an extremely ripe fruit tree, because who knew if that was the last food you'd see in a week.
Q: Is it really possible to get fit in 10 minutes a day?
A: Fitness does not have to take 30-45 minutes at a time, despite what the fitness industry may be promoting. Keep Reading…
Q: How can I retrain my body's natural clock to wake up earlier? I feel like I have become actually softer as I age and, though I know it would fix so many things wrong in my life, I still sleep in as late as possible before racing to the shower then out the front door off to work…
A: Our need for sleep is based on a number of factors, Keep Reading…
Here's a quick and simple granola recipe that lasts a long time in the cupboard without requiring refrigeration. It serves 4-8, depending on how hungry they are!