Nutrition
Is Gluten-Free Always Better?
I believe gluten is best avoided for everyone, but you need to be sure you’re making wise substitutions. You don’t want to trade gluten-laden products for more junk causing inf. Yes, it’s good to get rid of gluten because it could be causing inflammation in your...
What You May Not Know About Diabetes (and sugar)
I have been thinking about diabetes since I was recently in Mexico, and sadly, it has one of the highest rates of this disease in the world. But there is hope. There’s evidence that type 2 diabetes can be prevented and even managed or cured with a plant-based diet....
Can I Go on Beauty Detox While Breastfeeding?
I see this question a lot. Moms want to do the best thing they can for their new babies, provide them with the best milk possible, and get the benefit of dropping the baby weight as quickly as they can. Yes, you can begin incorporating some of the Beauty Detox...
How to Lose Weight WITHOUT Counting Calories
Counting calories is not something I ever encourage for anyone, ever. It's simply not a natural way of evaluating what to eat or when or if something is healthy or not. We were meant to eat whole foods and listen to our bodies, not add up a bunch of numbers. By...
Are You Addicted to Wheat?
If you’re still carrying around some extra pounds and you’ve been doing everything you can think of to get rid of them, wheat could be the culprit. Worse? You might actually have a wheat addiction (keep reading for what I mean by that). It can make losing weight more...
How This Popular Children's Drink Could Be Harming Their Health (and What You Can Do About It)
The choice to avoid one very common kids’ food can potentially save your child’s health. No, it’s not Gummy Worms (not that you shouldn’t keep them away from those, too). It’s apple juice. Some kids drink more juice than water, which is an issue for more reasons that...
Could Junk Food Save the World?
It can be tough to give up, or even be confronted about bad habits. It can make us all feel a bit squirrely, can't it? Food-wise, if often comes down to a reductionist mentality where the one confronted may rattle off something numbers based, like, “This food’s not so...
Help! My Boyfriend/Husband Wants Meat at Every Meal
If your significant other is not as thrilled as you are about leaving the animal products behind and eating the Beauty Detox way, there are still ways you can enjoy dinners together without cooking two entrees every night. With only a little extra effort, you can each...
What Eating Too Much Protein Does to Your Body (Yes You Can Have Too Much)
Following a long list of flashy buzzword predecessors- low-fat, antioxidant-rich, whole grain, sugar-free, to name a few- protein (yes plain 'ol protein!) has been thrust into the media as the uncontested, current "it" word in the wild world of food marketing. Yahoo!...
What Your Hair Loss Is Trying to Tell You
Whether you’re male or female, hair loss can be a horrifying thing to deal with. Your body is trying to tell you it needs something or that something's wrong, but what on earth is it? In some cases, a deficiency in your diet could be causing it, and a couple of simple...
