Now that the pantry and freezer are stocked for our upcoming 28-day diet, it’s time to shop for fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as a few other items. Either Wednesday or Thursday I’ll be heading out to purchase:
Eggs, free-range grain-fed
SoyTein protein powder (vanilla)
Apples, small to medium Red Delicious
Bananas
Green beans
Cabbage
Broccoli
Romaine lettuce
Tomatoes
Summer Squash
Zucchini
Cucumbers
Carrots, matchstick
Carrots, whole
Green peppers
Avocado
Raisins
Almond [...]

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Kathy on June 9th, 2010

I started keeping a calorie count yesterday in preparation for our upcoming 28-Day Diet to determine the body’s metabolic rate.  While Dr. Siegal (Is Your Thyroid Making You Fat?) allows diet sodas and other non-nutritive diet foods, we are going to take a higher road here on OsteoDiet.  We may be cutting back on calories [...]

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I’m stocking up the freezer and the pantry this week in preparation for the 28-Day Diet to determine my Metabolic Function Index.  Next week I’ll be shopping from the deli and the fresh produce section of the store.
In his book, Is Your Thyroid Making You Fat?, Dr. Sanford Siegal gives a long list of recommended [...]

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After reading Dr. Siegal’s book, Is Your Thyroid Making You Fat?, I am ready to be OsteoDiet’s guinea pig in following his 28-Day Diet to determine metabolic rate.  It looks simple enough to do, is not time-consuming, and looks healthy enough.  I can use OsteoDiet’s 80% alkaline/20% acid ratio as part of my eating plan [...]

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Kathy on May 27th, 2010

Similar settings–a diagnosis of osteoporosis in mid-life–but two different plot lines.  Reading these stories will make you grateful you’ve chosen to fight osteoporosis naturally.  After all, the only side effect of the alkaline diet, weight-bearing exercise, and daily sunlight is…good health!
Read “A Tale of Two Ladies: Which Would You Rather Be?” at:
http://saveourbones.com/a-tale-of-two-ladies/

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Kathy on May 13th, 2010

Every now and then, the effort to cook and eat only those foods that build strong bones and a healthy body can result in feeling sorry for yourself.  You watch other people eating foods you know you must avoid, and you wonder, “Why me?  Why do I have to miss out?”
Although you know deep [...]

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Kathy on January 16th, 2010

Did you ever notice that life seems to come at us in waves of activity?  I find this especially true of my life as a teacher.
On the job I tend to vacillate between high energy and burnout. Maybe it’s because I’ve always looked at energy as limitless commodity rather than as a renewable resource. [...]

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