How to Successfully Create New Healthy Habits
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” (Jim Rohn)”” Why is it often so difficult to start a healthy new habit? Perhaps you ‘know’ that you need to begin to eat more fruits and vegetables, drink enough water, exercise, sleep more and manage your stress better, but many times all […]
Emotional Eating and the Holidays: The Food-Mood Connection
As the holidays approach we are often faced with a barrage of sweets and treats everywhere we go. Even if you stared down that Halloween candy bowl and managed to not dive into it, the upcoming holidays and festivities are fraught with desserts and other ‘goodies’ that are often hard to pass up. The holiday […]
Giving Thanks Can Make You Healthier
The season of Thanksgiving is upon us. We gather, we celebrate, and we feast. The trappings of the traditional Thanksgiving meal may include a few things that are not always on our “eat healthy’ list. If we are really watching what we eat, some of us fret and worry as we head into the holidays […]
Comfort Food Healthy Hack: Cauliflower
Comfort food is defined as: “Food that provides consolation or a feeling of well-being, typically any food with a high sugar or (high) carbohydrate content and associated with childhood or home cooking.” When we are stressed, tired, lonely and/or bored, comfort foods seem to signal us with their beacon of consolation. Pizza, mashed potatoes, bread, […]
Surviving the Terror on Halloween: Candy!
Summer’s warmth made it easier to exercise outdoors. A plentiful supply of fresh fruits and vegetables, made healthy eating manageable. Now comes the challenging part of the year. The temperatures are c older. It is harder to embrace outdoor activities and we crave comfort food. Oh and the holidays!! Halloween is the first, in a […]
Superfood Spotlight: Butternut Squash
With fall in full swing and frosty nights befalling much of the country it’s a good time to reassess our fruit and vegetable intake and tweak our habitual selections to bring in the warming experiences and tastes of the season. When we begin to experiment and try out the fresh local fruits and vegetables of […]
Everything There Is To Know About The Omega 7 Fatty Acid
A lot of people have health issues. Doctors would usually recommend all sorts of pills so that those problems can be resolved. Others argue that it is not such a good idea to consume pills made out of chemicals all the time because they can end up doing more damage than solve the problem. Luckily, […]
Spice Up Your Health With Oregano
Spicing up your food with herbs may feel like an afterthought when it comes to nutrition. You may feel that a sprinkle of oregano on top of your food isn’t part of the spectrum of macronutrients you need like protein, fats and carbs or that it doesn’t impact your health like the vitamins and minerals […]
Ping with Stress: The 3rd Pillar of Wellness
When we think about ‘getting healthier’ we usually think about what kind of changes we need to make in our diets and what kind of exercise program we should engage in. Sometimes, we start to make these changes when our body gives us the ‘wake up’ call- we find we are developing a chronic disease […]
Flavonoids for Heart Health and Cancer Prevention
The latest nutrition research has shined a light on a particular nutrient in food called ‘Flavonoids’. It seems that even when things like smoking, high blood pressure and high cholesterol were controlled for, one single factor remained as a constant predictor of reducing your chance of death from heart disease or cancer- how many flavonoids […]