Category Archives: Terveys

Health.

Biker dyke in the making

Posted on Sat, 29 April 2006 by Mel Green

Bike helmet & pomegranate tea Took the bike up today to Side Street for writing. Instead of taking the steep hill up E Street to get downtown, I took the bike trail towards Westchester Lagoon and cut right to take … Continue reading →

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Bike day #2

Posted on Fri, 28 April 2006 by Mel Green

I just got done huffin’ & puffin’ to work, my second day on the bike. Today I did the 4 miles in 35 minutes, instead of the 40 it took on Tuesday, but believe me it’s not because I’m in … Continue reading →

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A brief spiritual history

Posted on Thu, 27 April 2006 by Mel Green

In an online group I’m in, the topic came up of our religious/spiritual history, & how it integrates or doesn’t integrate with our sexual orientation as lesbians. Here’s the short version, as written there (with some emendations). 1. Junior high … Continue reading →

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Bike day #1

Posted on Tue, 25 April 2006 by Mel Green

I finally did it. Sometime last fall, we started driving the car less often, & began taking the bus to/from work & other destinations more often. For me, that’s usually meant taking the bus sometimes as many as three or … Continue reading →

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Enough with the rut

Posted on Fri, 21 April 2006 by Mel Green

Discussion on one of the lists I’m on has returned to an old issue, to the effect of: I was losing weight, but now I’m at a plateau — how do I get out of the rut? Lots of the … Continue reading →

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Berry inaccurate

Posted on Thu, 20 April 2006 by Mel Green

Much though I appreciate the Glycemic Index Newsletter, & all the GI people behind it, I wish they would be a little less lax about their inaccuracy about how many species of berry are native to the North American continent, … Continue reading →

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GI Group rebuts the slam

Posted on Thu, 20 April 2006 by Mel Green

Back in mid-March, I wrote about a study published in the British Journal of Nutrition that slammed the glycemic index. Now the good folks at the Glycemic Index Newsletter have themselves responded to the study (see last item) with a … Continue reading →

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Say what….?

Posted on Mon, 10 April 2006 by Mel Green

The GI Newsletter thinks there are only three berry species indigenous to North America. Oh please… there are many more.

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School vending machines

Posted on Fri, 7 April 2006 by Mel Green

My letter to Sen. Lisa Murkowski thanking her for her cosponsorship of the Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act, which would create nutritional standards for foo sold through schools including vending machines. Meanwhile, Anchorage School District is gonig to begin phasing out sale of junk food & vending machines ASD schools.

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My feet have veins!

Posted on Sun, 26 March 2006 by Mel Green

Well, duh, of course they do. But it’s not till recently that I’ve been able to see them, having suffered from edema for a good long while. I really like looking at my feet now. Rozz tells me it’s because … Continue reading →

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