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    Nancy Roberts

    Nancy Roberts

  • User Post: Ways to Love Our Planet for Earth Day

    As Earth Day draws near, our minds turn to ways we can become greener, to reduce the pollution, carbons, and toxins that are destroying our planet, for future generations. Although I am sometimes guilty of driving when I could walk or ride public transit, not always thoroughly sorting my recycling,

  • Detoxing with Moxie

    Deprivation is never easy, but it's always done better with a friend. Come May, my post New Year's workout regimen was yielding mediocre results. With an event to attend in several weeks, I needed to up my game.One of my fabulous coworkers who was receiving acupuncture and seeing a naturopath, told

  • It Takes a Village to Change our Eating Habits

    Just today, Change.org's Sustainable Food blog released its Top 5 Foods You Should Avoid in 2010 list, a wake-up call for the New Year and decade. Unsurprisingly, the usual offenders were present: high-fructose corn syrup (HFC), seafood on the watch list, out-of-season produce, and factory-farmed me

  • Diabetes Robbed My Friend of Her Sight and Life

    On the eve of my high school reunion, I am slightly giddy with anticipation. Not because my life began and ended with high school: my 30s have been where I've really hit my stride. And I have remained connected with my high school friends who made an impact on me. But I am curious and genuinely look

  • An Ancient Treatment for a Modern Ailment

    I awoke one morning with frightening symptoms: three fingers on my right hand were numb. Convinced the cause was neurologic, I headed straight to WebMD, which pointed toward the telltale early symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome, especially given that symptoms were on my right (dominant) hand and on

  • 5 Tips for Surviving New York Dating

    Author's disclaimer: This piece is meant to be read as tongue-in-cheek and deliberately cynical. Still, it might elicit a few head nods from those in the trenches... New York dating is a jungle, a proverbial shark tank, a snake pit. Thrown in at the deep end, I had to learn fast, that the very tips

  • How "Julie and Julia" Helped Me Find My Voice

    I'm descended from remarkable, strong women, and thus it's no surprise, I'm inspired by remarkable, strong women, or those on their way. Julie and Julia, the 2009 film about Julie Powell, a frustrated 30-year-old cubicle dweller and unpublished writer who blogs and cooks her way through Julia Child'

  • User Post: Does Milk Really Do a Body Good?

    Growing up, I drank my milk, 2-3 glasses every night, like a good little girl. This was during the 70s, way before "lactose-intolerant-this," "nondairy that," let alone "hormone-free milk" and Whole Foods. I also grew...big. I was healthy, but developed rather quickly and was "cursed" with the curse