The Selfish Mom Diet

You drive the carpool, fold the laundry, take out the dog, handle the company’s high profile accounts, pick up the dry cleaning, hit the supermarket, provide the family with a hot supper and tuck everyone in at night. No, this isn’t the “Multi-tasking Olympics.” …It’s your life. And it’s about time you stop to think about yourself for a little while.

As women, we’ve got very different nutritional requirements than our Y-chromosome carrying counterparts. As we pass through each phase of life—from adolescence when we could use a little extra calcium for healthy bone growth, to our childbearing years when we need lots of iron and folic acid, to menopause when healthy monounsaturated fats and soy foods keep heart disease, certain cancers and mood swings at bay—it’s important to eat right. But don’t stress out (that’s not good for you either).

There are plenty of delicious foods for every stage that’ll have you grazing gracefully through your life. In fact, as long as you eat wholesome natural foods rather than overly processed and fast foods, you can justify just about anything. Gravitating to a gooey wedge of brie? Go ahead, it’s great for your bones. Salivating over a thick slice of juicy steak? Dig in to all that iron. Craving Carbs? Go for it. Just make sure they’re the whole grain kind. They’ll fill you up with all of the good stuff so you can run the hurdles that the day throws at you.

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