Health
Stressed? Cut back on Garlic
#BeautyDetox Tip: If you find yourself easily stressed and irritable, cut back on pungent, "rajastic" stimulating foods like onions and excessive garlic. On the other hand, if you are sluggish, such foods can be helpful.
How to Speed Up Your Metabolism
If I had to come up with a list of FAQs, one of the most commonly asked questions is this: “Are there foods I can eat to boost my metabolism?” An efficiently functioning system allows your body to make the most of the nutrients you consume, and when you eat the right...
How to Explain to Others What You Eat (You Don’t Need to Defend Yourself)
Whether it's meeting a friend for lunch, having a family dinner, or grabbing a snack at a cafe with a business or work associate, in our Western society it overwhelmingly involves food. Explaining your choices to friends and family doesn’t have to be challenging. You...
The One Day Cleanse
As I've always said, cleansing should be considered a verb, not a noun. What I mean by that is that you should incorporate long-term shifts in your lifestyle, which are far more affective in cleansing the body on a continual and deeper basis rather than short-term...
6 Ways to Eat Your Way to a Happier You
In today’s fast-paced, high-pressure world, it is easy to let your emotions get the best of you. Once in a bad mood, it can be downright difficult to snap out of it. Everyone has his or her go-to default for stress management. For some, it involves exercise, for...
10 Tricks to Help Quell Cravings
We all know what it’s like to crave something. That indescribable feeling that seizes your body and convinces you that you will go insane unless you put __________ (fill in the blank) into your body. While over 70% of the population can resonate with this feeling,...
5 Simple Tips for a Healthy Labor Day
Labor Day is right around the corner and brings with it the return to school and the start of football season. As a national holiday, Labor Day is all about two things – rest and celebration (it’s pretty funny that they are completely opposite notions but oddly don’t...
The Best Beauty-Enhancing Foods
Minerals and enzymes are key elements that contribute to beautiful skin, nails and hair. These powerful substances are critical for proper cellular functioning. Minerals originate from the soil and are abundantly transferred to us through organic fruits and...
5 Superfoods That Improve Your Memory
Memory is crucial to success. In today’s technology era, we are constantly stimulated with information and overloaded with details concerning a new product or a project with a deadline. We are constantly managing our lives with blackberries, iphones, computers,...
Babies and a Breastfeeding Discussion
So I had a very baby-licious weekend. Saturday we went to the house of a friend who just had a baby, to meet her for the first time, and Sunday we met the very new baby boy of another friend! I wish I could share pictures of the adorable bundles of joy, but weeeeeel,...
