CRAVE Business Chat: LOCAL INSPIRATION (Look for other great CRAVE events in Austin, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Hawaii, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, and Vancouver.) Description: Local celebrity entreprenesses doing amazing things in their industry will be sharing their experiences in the business world. Join us for coffee and treats, get to know these entreprenesses and learn their secrets to success! Speakers: Kami Gray, Sandra Colton, and Nubby Twiglet When: Sunday, March 28, 2010 • 10am-12pm Where: Little Urbanites – 916 NW 10th Ave, Portland,...

Go Red For Women celebrates the energy, passion and power we have as women to band together to wipe out heart disease and stroke. Thanks to the participation of millions of people across the country, the color red and the red dress now stand for the ability all women have to improve their heart health and live stronger, longer lives. – goredforwomen.org. Find out how you can organize an event in your hometown to raise awareness of this often preventable and sadly, number one killer of women in our country. In Portland, Oregon tonight, a fun-filled benefit takes place at The Candy Ultra Lounge...

Come join my new group on LinkedIn called THE GOOD LIFE for WOMEN. The group is for those of us women dedicated to living and promoting a healthy way of life and for those wanting the healthy, good life they were meant to live. Topics include food, health, fashion, beauty, green living, travel, style, fitness, diet, weight loss, aging, family, spirituality, and whatever else helps us to live THE GOOD LIFE. A mediocre life is unacceptable; strive for the perfect life and you’ve missed the point and all the fun — I say good is good enough! Come join us and share how you live THE GOOD...

Photo from ABCNews.com An article from Newsweek on September 11, 2009 explores yet another reason why 60% of Americans are overweight, obese, or morbidly obese — maybe some of us were “Born To Be Fat.” Newsweek reporter, Sharon Begley, begins with, “In 2006 scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health reported that the prevalence of obesity in infants under 6 months had risen 73 percent since 1980. “This epidemic of obese 6-month-olds,” as endocrinologist Robert Lustig of the University of California, San Francisco, calls it, poses a problem for conventional...

I hardly have to think about getting daily walks in during the summer. I walk everywhere — to the farmers’ market, friend’s houses, the wine bar, or my favorite vintage or resale shop. Now that Fall is approaching and the nights are getting cooler, the days shorter, and the weather will be wet more often than not where I live, I’m struggling a bit to get moving everyday. I could go to the gym, but that would last about as long as me trying to give up high heels, coffee, or wine. Thanks to a Twitter pal’s blog (www.fitthisgirl.com), I discovered an awesome tool to keep...

Cantaloupe with Red Wine Syrup from www.culinate.com I’ve just joined a new (free) social networking site that’s all about good food. It’s called Culinate and it’s a place to exchange recipes, store recipes, read cookbook reviews, and get the latest news about all things having to do with good food. It’s got a great interface and tons of pretty pictures of beautiful, healthy food. Members can also create their own blog. One of my favorite features is called LOCAL 50, which highlights regional specialties state-by-state. Here’s an example from my home state of...

Illustration Courtesy of The New Yorker The July 20, 2009 edition of The New Yorker offers up some fascinating answers to this question in an article by Elizabeth Kolbert titled, “XXXL, Why Are We So Fat?”. The article discusses several books that address this topic. In The Denim Diet, I boldly state that, “Giant food manufacturers have taken the food out of our food and replaced it with chemicals, preservatives, and poison that make us fatter and fatter and full of disease and cancer, and they’ve packaged our food in a way that creates truckloads of waste and ensures our...

Four from Forbes.com that are worth checking out… Photo from Forbes.com The Healthiest Foods On Earth by Jonny Bowden, author of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth Foods You Should Be Eating, But Aren’t by Susan Adams, Forbes Reporter Eleven Ways To Boost Your Energy by Jonny Bowden, author of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth Surprising Superfoods by Lauren Sherman, Forbes...