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Coffee | Connection | Community & Workforce Development and Metabolic Health Coach

West Michigan
Joined September 2008
My occasional thoughts & scribblings: praiseandcoffee.substack.com…
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Best podcast this year 🤩 WOW! I loved every minute of this 👏 So very important to understand addiction before we try to help Food addiction given VERY fleeting mention yet it’s 14% of the population PLEASE ask my wife @drjenunwin about this She is battling to get ultra processed food addiction international recognition You could help She has the first published clinical results in the world of treatment
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Not sure why but the pop up to “triage my emails” made me laugh today. Is it that bad?!
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I mean. I’ve had days like this.
Baby elephants don't learn to control their trunks until they’re about a year old.
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39 years with my best friend. We also work together. Partners for life.
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Bananas are a Sugar-Laden source of Potassium. Gram for gram, plain ground beef has more potassium than a banana. 100 g of browned 80/20 ground beef has 380 mg. 100 g of banana has 358 mg. Those numbers come straight from the USDA database. The real difference is everything else. The banana brings 22.8 g of carbs and about 1 g of protein. The beef brings 27 g of protein, zero carbs, and loads of B12, zinc and iron. The banana has zero B12. Doctors have been telling patients to eat a banana for potassium for decades. Meat is a health food. Carbs are optional & not ideal. I've done videos on the best potassium foods (see below)... So why does every leg cramp lecture still end with "eat a banana"? Sources and my videos below...
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Overnight success always takes a decade or 2.
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Don't punish yourself into becoming someone different. Nourish your body. Move it. Strengthen it. Take care of it. Make choices that align with the life you want. The goal isn't restriction. The goal is freedom.
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"I ate too much yesterday, so I'm barely eating today.” That's not balance. That's punishment. Take the lesson. Leave the guilt. Then go right back to nourishing your body.
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Food isn't something you earn when you're good or lose when you're bad. It's nourishment for a body you're learning to care for. That's a very different relationship with food.
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Stop using exercise to pay for food. Walk because it clears your head. Lift because you want strong muscles. Move because you want a capable body for decades to come.
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Nutrition doesn't have to be driven by fear. Whole foods. Better information. Pay attention to your own body. Awareness over fear. The goal isn't restriction. The goal is freedom.
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Eat the fruit. Don't drink the fruit. It's much easier to quickly consume the sugar from several pieces of fruit when they're turned into juice than it is to sit down and eat all of that whole fruit. The form of our food matters.
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I mean, when you put it like that... ❤️
How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects? Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner? CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS. Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song. Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been. Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on. Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about. There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable. There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.” Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable. A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE?? And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself? Your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to? The iron in our blood was made inside a star?? We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live? We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?
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Don't confuse “fruit-flavored,” “natural” or “made with real fruit” with sugar-free. Turn the bottle around. Read the label. Look specifically at added sugar. The more you know!
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You might be eating less sugar than you think… and drinking more. Check the coffee creamer. The sweet tea. The energy drink. The “healthy” juice. What's in your glass matters too.
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If you're trying to reduce sugar, don't just look at your plate. Look at your cup. Soda, sweet tea, juice, energy drinks, sugary creamers and fancy coffee drinks can deliver a surprising amount of sugar very quickly.
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Wow.
Incredible how her voice sounds much better as she gets older. Excellent artist.
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You are not required to prove your strength by repeatedly walking past the cinnamon rolls. Change the environment. Remove the cue. Make the better choice easier. That's not cheating. That's wisdom.
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Your environment is shaping your choices whether you realize it or not. Ask yourself: Does my environment support the woman I'm trying to become or continually ask her to fight against it?
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We tend to call it “discipline” when the healthy choice is easy and “lack of willpower” when temptation is everywhere. Sometimes the difference isn't character. It's environment.
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