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Cindy Hatcher

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Cindy Hatcher is Associate Editor of Healthy Living at CookingLight.com. This means she works mainly on non-recipe stories, covering topics like travel, dining, beauty, and the magazine’s annual Taste Test Awards. She is married to a constantly traveling comedian, which means she often faces the challenge of cooking for one (or what feels like ten when her very tall, hungry husband is home).
Inspiration
She did it! You did it! We did it!
Posted on December 12, 2011
Remember how I bugged you about voting for the wonderful Gretchen Holt Witt in L’Oreal’s Women of Worth contest? The prize: $25,000 to her foundation, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. Well, Christmas came early last Thursday night in New York City when it was announced that Gretchen won! “It was an...BulletRead More
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Be Portion Aware | Real-Life Challenges
How to make "less is more" happen more often
Posted on November 22, 2011
“Be portion aware!” It’s the mandate shouting at me from this month’s 12 Healthy Habits pages. It’s not really shouting, of course. That’s just my own portion “noise.” Because trust me: I am very portion aware. I’m actually more portion disregard. Because I know a grape from a galette—and will...BulletRead More
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Eat Mindfully, Be Thankful | Inspiration
If you’re going to eat a cookie, you might as well make it count
Posted on November 15, 2011
Some people just have that extra special something—a sparkle, a light, a ripple of good energy—that instantly draws you in and makes you want to share a pot of coffee and a plate of yummy cookies, lingering until only crumbs and dregs remain. Gretchen Holt Witt is one of those...BulletRead More
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Go Vegetarian | Small Successes
It's time for a "Come to Tofu" moment
Posted on August 30, 2011
Though I’m not vegetarian, I consider myself a meatless master. I rarely cook meat at home—with the exception of browning some ground beef or turkey for soups or throwing some salmon into a grill pan—and I only order it at restaurants when I know the source is local and/or humanely-raised,...BulletRead More
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Focus on Healthy Fats
Fat isn't your frenemy
Posted on July 6, 2011
Eat more…fat…you say? Now this is a healthy habit that should be easy to embrace, right? Turns out the nutrition gods are talking about healthy fats. And healthy doesn’t mean the mozzarella and pepperoni that weighs down my pizza. Though you may find this mantra confusing after surviving the 80s...BulletRead More
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Get Moving | Get Stronger | Real-Life Challenges
Why I need to stop weighting it out
Posted on June 3, 2011
Ok, I already know that adding muscle helps burn real calories while I’m watching Real Housewives, but I’ll confess I’ve fallen off the weight lifting wagon. I was a devoted Body Pump attendee—a class at my local Y where you lift dumbbells in sync to Top 40 hits—until a few...BulletRead More
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Eat More Grains
Wave that whole grain flag proudly
Posted on April 30, 2011
We’ve already established that figuring out what constitutes a whole grain can be tricky (honestly, if they were a category on Jeopardy!, I might not take home the grand prize). What I’ve been noticing increasingly, however, is the overall attitude about whole grains is shifting to one of pride. Whole...BulletRead More
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Get Cooking
Date night in
Posted on March 28, 2011
My obstacle to frequent cooking is a relatively luxurious one—there aren’t children with ballet lessons or little league politics hindering my path to the kitchen. It’s more my inconsistent dining partner. My husband travels a few weeks out of the month for his job. When he’s home, he wants “manly,”...BulletRead More
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