Nutrition
Buy Produce From Local Farmers Markets
Want to know where your food comes from? Head out to a farmer’s market and talk to the vendors. They’ll tell you exactly how they grow and how to eat healthy on a budget.
How Certain Foods Can Change Your Mood
Feeling grumpy or a little down in the dumps? It could be the foods you eat! The food-mood connection has been the subject of recent research, and many experts now recognize that certain foods have a powerful effect on mood. Motivating our decisions is also money, as...
Eliminate Gluten For Improved Digestion
The human body doesn’t process gluten well. Try eliminating gluten-containing grains including wheat, rye, and barley. Check to make sure the oats you eat have been processed in a gluten-free plant, as well. Foods that help burn fat are usually free from gluten, think...
Hungry? Grab Some Raw Almonds
Starved? Try a few raw almonds. They are a great source of vitamin E and protein, taste good, and fill you up. They are the perfect post workout snack and foods that help burn fat.
Why You Should Choose Colorful Vegetables
The best way to ensure your body gets the nutrients it needs is by choosing vegetables from across the spectrum of color. Colorful produce has different vitamins and minerals depending on its hue. When you choose a variety of fruit and vegetable options with different...
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...
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...
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,...
More Random Thoughts: Raw Food, Yoga…
Yes, my brain does like to jump around sometimes. Not in a frenetic ADD way, but more in a way where I get really excited about a lot of different thoughts all at the same time that I want to share! While they don’t all really seem interrelated- well, I think...
Why Table Salt Makes You Fat and Bloated
When it is this cold, I do love the occasional hot soup. If possible- I would rather make it myself to avoid unhealthy fats. If the soup is a clear vegetable soup, similar to my cauliflower soup recipe. I do not worry so much about the soup being cooked-as it will...
