In Good Company

INTRODUCTION

To help everyone reading this post understand why we need to care about caloric energy - and why at times it is important to pay attention to those "calories" on the packages we buy - (including me)....

it helps to understand how calories get measured and a brief overview of how they work within the body.

The following section should help you with this and assist in the secondary blog post "Fat by Percentage's not by Grams".

Happy reading!

THE SCIENCE OF CALORIC...

Note: a low-fat diet is consistent of 20% or fewer total daily calories consumed, by a person, coming from fat (and that is all types of fat). 

Fact: In nature, Fat does not exist in tidy short, medium, long, and very long chain carbon lengths independently of one another. While the overall percentage of fat carbon lengths in food may fluctuate, they all exist together. ONLY IN A LAB setting can you isolate the various fat carbon lengths. That is why it is IMPOSSIBLE to...

It’s officially fall! Well, at least for a few days now…..while I cannot wait for the beginning of a new season, new routines and new fall habits to set in (rainy nights, sweaters worn permanently, and just all-around fall activities).

This post has nothing to do with educational in-sights; and everything to do with encouraging the in-between season activities.

This time of year, there seems to be a highten urge to transition. There is the complex lure of light scarfs and...

Vitamins: What is the Deal?

Marketplace madness and what you need to know….

Vitamins, it seems like everyone is taking them (at least most of us are!) and everyone’s selling them.

You and I are told by the media, our healthcare system (legitimate factions and not so legitimate one’s) and seemingly every well-meaning random stranger on the street that if only we were taking (FILL IN THE BLANK HERE) we’d be cured, be skinner, have more hair, tighter...

In Good Company with Claire Held

My Story

Like many of you – my story starts off rocky. I was born 2 & ½ months premature, my mother had HELLP syndrome, and I lived in the PICU for the first part of my infancy. Over the next year and a half my body shut down twice – major organ failure, 2 different comas and many, many months in Seattle Children’s Intensive Care Unit. I was Air Lift’s Northwest poster child and Children’s Hospital Merical Network...