Holly Hickman | Author of Healthy Eats Here! — Health, Wealth and Wisecracks from the Author of Healthy Eats Here!

Get Healthy Holly – Milk it!

by Holly Hickman on 03/10/2010

A question from a reader:

Would Healthy Holly drink raw milk?

Yes, indeedy, Healthy Holly would — and has. It’s delicious and makes me feel sassy. Do I exclusively drink raw milk? No. I drink the best milk available at any given time. How does one determine this? Let’s milk a good/better/best list.

Click HERE for the long tall glass of awesome.

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Get Going: How to Love Your Body — Part One

by Holly Hickman on 03/09/2010

Step number one?

“Be present. Be present in your body.”

So says Shannon Mairs, a remarkable woman who empowers people — women in particular — to fully inhabit and love their bodies.

photo courtesy of Shannon Mairs

How does she do it?
Click HERE to find out.

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Get Wise: Celebrating Yourself

by Holly Hickman Get Wise

‘Fess up. You’ve done it, too: made your Oscar acceptance speech into the shampoo bottle.
It’s OK. We all want to be lauded, feted, celebrated. (No wonder the word celebrity shares the same Latin root, celebratus.) The honoring and lauding of each other is one of the reasons we get into relationships: we shine the spotlight [...]

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Get Going: Where the Health to Eat this Weekend – Acme Edition

by Holly Hickman Get Going

Ya’ll.
I’m in my hometown right now, one we Texans like to call Big Day. And I’ve got some delicious information for you: it’s Thursday, so it’s time for the Chews Well Weekly Letter, suggesting Where the Health to Eat this weekend. The full letter — with all the restaurant names I omit here — goes [...]

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Get Healthy: When Downsizing is a Good Thing

by Holly Hickman Get Healthy Holly

We’ll do more weightloss tips soon, but in the meantime, here’s a quick one you can take to the table tonight:
Do you eat your meals on hubcaps? The larger your plate, the larger the amount you’ll likely eat in one sitting. Try downsizing to smaller plates and bowls tonight: you’ll trick your eyes into [...]

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How to Age Gracefully – the Whole Hog

by Holly Hickman Get Wise

Dusk. A full moon and an Indian paintbrush sky loomed over the Oklahoma prairie. A coyote (“kah-YOTE”) howled somewhere in the vicinity, but just for a flash. How stunningly quiet can our lives be when we remove ourselves from the hustle and flow of the daily grind.
I had pulled over to the side of the [...]

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