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Mixed Berry Cobbler – and other ways to serve all those berries you picked

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It’s berry season where we are!  When Anna said she was going to write a post about all she learned while berry picking with her family at River Ridge Farm, it reminded me that we haven’t been berry picking in a LONG time. What do you do with all of your u-pick berries? Her post also reminded me of all the ways I serve berries in my house. My favorite way is to make mixed berry cobbler! 

Mixed Berry Cobbler

Cobbler is relatively simple to make and it offers an easy opportunity for kids to help in the kitchen: rinsing berries, mixing them with sugar and lemon juice and zest, mixing the cobbler and adding the cobbler on top of the berries.  

  • Add sugar, lemon zest and lemon juice to berries
  • Add cobbler topping

Serve the cobbler warm from the oven with either a scoop of ice cream or a good amount of cream poured over. It also tastes great the next morning at breakfast, warmed a bit and with cream.

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The Intersection of Anxiety, Eating Disorders, and IBS

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By: Jessica Long
Guest Post Writer

Trigger Warning: Mention of eating disorder behaviors.

If you’re a medical professional in the eating disorder field or you yourself have struggled with an eating disorder, the following statement might not surprise you: 

There is a significant overlap between anxiety, eating disorders, and gastrointestinal disorders (namely, IBS). 

Let’s dig into the research

To illuminate this, let’s dig into the research for a bit. 

DeJong et al.1 found that over 68% of patients with bulimia enrolled in an outpatient facility had IBS. Likewise, Boyd et al.2 discovered that 98% of patients admitted to an eating disorder unit had at least one functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID), with IBS being the most prevalent (in 52% of patients). Interestingly, anxiety was a strong predictor of IBS status.2 Patients with IBS have higher levels of both anxiety and depression,3 and research suggests this connection might have a genetic component.4

Although the current research cannot definitively tell us which comes first (the anxiety, the eating disorder, or the IBS), in 89 patients with both an eating disorder and IBS, the eating disorder came prior to the IBS in 78 cases.5 Most gastrointestinal symptoms significantly decrease following termination of the eating disorder behaviors (i.e. restoring normal eating habits and patterns).6 …

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