Halloween Aftermath: Your Gut Halloween is over, but the holiday food indulgences are just beginning! Several of you have mentioned your sugar cravings are out of control from too much Halloween candy. If this sounds like you, add fermented foods into your diet to help balance your...
I’m sure you’ve read enough posts about Halloween, so I’ll keep it brief! As most of you know, I have a love hate relationship with Halloween. I love the spooky, scary aspects and catching up with friends while the kids trick-or-treat. The massive amounts of candy...
The athletes in the Olympics are truly awe inspiring! It’s amazing what they can do with their bodies and their minds. I read a great article the other day from Tom Langton at Gabriele Fitness. He was discussing 'What Michael Phelps' can teach us. What...
I had an interesting conversation with a new client the other day. She wants to feel better. She suspects certain foods she’s eating cause digestion issues. She has a good idea of the right types of foods to eat (healthy carbs like fruits and vegetables,...
Lemons are one of my favorite fruits. They are so versatile. Use them to dress your salads and vegetables, to flavor your water, to add zing to your seafood and to reduce the bitterness in green juices. The juice from one lemon has 1/3 of...
I read an interesting essay in Aeon by Michael Graziano, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, who has a new take on hunger and weight loss. Graziano experimented on himself for about a year, eating the same thing every day to establish a baseline. He would...
You have to watch this one minute clip from Jimmy Kimmel as he surveys people about gluten. Their responses are hilarious. It’s amazing how people just jump on the latest band wagon whether they understand it or not! What is Gluten? Gluten is a protein found in...
I don’t know about you, but after the holidays, I’m feeling bloated and exhausted. I was trying to figure out why and then I realized – of course, it’s what I’ve been eating! I’ve been so busy stressing about family get-togethers, purchasing the perfect presents and...
I went to a great presentation a few weeks ago by a local therapist, Cara Maksimow, and something she spoke about truly resonated with me. She talked about a tool that she uses each day: What’s in your B.A.G.? Rather than only ask her children what three...
I believe our bodies are perfect. They constantly give us signals, or whispers, but the question is “Are we listening”? Most of us don't wake up one morning and feel lousy. Instead, we start feeling minor symptoms, often caused by silent inflammation, that we ignore. ...