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Food Rant: America’s Fat Problem
Michael Ruhlman is a noted food writer and he served as a judge on the recent competition on the Food Network, “The Next Iron Chef”. He recently posted about fats on his blog. Timely considering my post yesterday. I gotta get to the grocery store and buy some fat-laden foods!

Self Magazine: Eat Like Me
This blog has been fascinating to me for quite some time now. Basically it’s just an RD posting what she eats for every single meal. She follows the government’s MyPyramid stuff pretty closely, and I’m not entirely sure I follow that philosophy 100%. The Harvard Nutrition pyramid is kind of interesting to me and I think I’m going to read Walt Willett’s book Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating. But this is still a good site.

Kath Eats Real Food
Do you ever follow the links to other blog postings that appear under the BlogHer ads on various sites? You should, you never know when you might stumble upon something good. That’s how I found this site. The thing I love about Kath’s site is it reminds me that you can eat really healthy food, it is absolutely delicious and you can eat a lot of it when it’s truly good for you. The whole principle of volume in eating is a great concept for me to remember. I am really eager to go buy some bananas so I can try her recipe for Classic Kath Oatmeal. It sounds heavenly. (Oh, and her husband contributes to the site some too. He makes bread, how awesome would that be? My hubby needs to learn some kind of specialty dish in the kitchen. – I’m only teasing honey, no pressure!)

My nutritionist told me I need to incorporate more healthy fats into my diet. She suggested olives, at which I promptly wrinkled my nose up in disgust, I hate olives. So then she suggested nuts, hummus and avocado. Yeah… now there’s a plan I can deal with. The Peanut Butter, Avocado & Hummus diet, my new book – it will sweep the nation and you’ll be able to read about all the celebrities following my plan.

Last week when the eye doctor told me my eyes were hopelessly dry and that I can’t have vision correction surgery of any kind right now (and will never be a candidate for LASIK), he started to tell me about some pills he’s heard about recently that are supposed to be a “natural” support for dry eye sufferers. The pills contain omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, in the form of flaxseed oil usually. He actually recommended just going out and buying my own flax supplements and not buying the brand specifically marked for dry eye sufferers, kind of surprising since there were brochures for the supplements in his office’s waiting room.

But after having a couple professionals tell me I need to eat more fat, I have to take that advice to heart. It’s not like I’m going to run out and start dining on prime rib (because honestly, that stuff freaks me out. My husband ordered it at a holiday party once and I almost couldn’t even look in his direction because that fatty cut of meat grossed me out so much.) I’m trying to add ground flaxseed to my yogurt each day, eating some nuts as a snack. I’ve already been taking Fish Oil pills daily for quite some time. Just slowly adding different things to my diet.

But getting more fat in my diet should be good for my eyes, my joints and my waistline. It’s just challenging for me. I know that probably sounds incredibly odd to most people, but that’s the way I roll!