Don’t Neglect Your Body as You Develop Your Mind.

I was talking to my husband late last night about the things that are preying on my mind these days. He leaves for a contract job 1000 miles away from us next week and I am hunkered down trying to ride out the emotional turbulence leading up to his departure: all of the last minute home improvements, the disorganized clutter involved with finding passports, social security cards, etc., the cleaning and packing.

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Idaho Teacher Sells Advertising Space On Tests : NPR.

I am bothered by this on many levels. First, I go out of my way not to subject my child to the consumerism that is so rampant in our society. He watches TV and as much as possible it is TV with no commercials; I want him to understand American culture and not be picked on in school, but I also don’t want him being indoctrinated into the gimme culture that exists all around us.

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Supercook: recipe search by ingredients you have at home.

Supercook is a recipe search engine that allows you to search for recipes that use only the ingredients you have on hand. It can make suggestions for additional recipes by asking if you have a few additional ingredients. It also “learns” what foods go together so it can offer substitutions for ingredients.

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There is an interview available on NPR.org. She gives her recipe for peas!

According to a study that was published on Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, cutting back on calories can help improve your memory. Just three months on a restricted diet helped improve performance on memory tests for the study volunteers. I always called it mommy brain and attributed my memory issues to sleep deprivation (which is still probably a large contributing factor), but maybe I just eat too much!

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The biggest impact on me from the moratorium on refined sugar is the speed and convenience at which I can stuff junk food into my gob. I can no longer go to the Dunkin’ Donuts drive thru window and eat anything I want off the menu (yes, I know that the idea that I could ever do that is flawed logic, but we are not talking about my “issues,” m’kay?). Now I have to stop and think about what I am eating.

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