Discover mindful Thanksgiving eating tips to enjoy your meal without guilt. Learn how to stay full, savor every bite, and honor your body’s needs this holiday season.
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How to enjoy Thanksgiving without sabotaging your healthy habits
Learn how to spot hidden food rules that sabotage healthy eating at social gatherings. Take control this Thanksgiving with mindful, guilt-free choices.
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Why you need Vitamin D: The secret to better health and wellness
Discover why optimal vitamin D levels are key to better sleep, mood, immunity, and pain management. Learn how to test, supplement, and thrive!
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Here’s why you need to know the word iatrogenic
I was finishing my continuing medical education credits this weekend. I was flabbergasted by what I was hearing in this pharmacology webinar. The only conclusion I could draw is that most of the drugs that patients are prescribed are poisons. They may affect some small positive change, but cause 10 x more problems than they prevent. This diabetes drug I was learning about can cause gangrene and death. But the pharmacist who was presenting didn’t think it was necessary to tell his patients that - he said maybe only if the patient seemed paranoid - so he wouldn’t get in trouble later. And here’s why you need to know the word iatrogenic.
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Improve your overall health now with this one thing
Considered worse than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day - this is of utmost importance for
your overall health. Contributing to diabetes, stroke, cancer, heart disease and a myriad of other
health issues, this one thing can improve your health in countless ways.
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7 Reasons you may be feeling tired
If you are tired a lot, you know what it’s like to be an energy chaser. And if you’re a mother, you definitely know what I mean. My kids are 8,11 and 14. So I’m not in the early stages of motherhood anymore, but I remember how it felt to be counting the minutes until they would go to bed or take a nap. Or think, “I must not like playing with my kids!” I used to think this and then I realized that when I did have lots of energy, it was just that I was tired!! It was a relief, but also a frustration that I had spent so much time struggling. What is the number one reason for fatigue in most people now? Men AND women?
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The best way to focus on being healthy…always.
If you’re reading this blog it’s very likely that you have an interest in your health. Do you
exercise? Take supplements? Do gluten-free? Avoid dairy? Avoid sugar or refined oils? What is
actually the most effective way to prevent disease? And it’s the same thing our forefathers
would need to have focused on for robust health.
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How to untangle the most complex human hunger
If you’ve been reading my blogs about hunger, you can probably guess this one. It’s number six and the last of human hungers. It’s why most people think they’re overweight. And the hardest one to get a handle on...
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Here is the secret human hunger driving your food choices
If you’ve been reading my blogs the last week or two, you know about the first 4 human
hungers. Today we are on human hunger number 5. It’s why you get bored eating the same
thing over and over. And it’s tightly linked to another human hunger. What is it?
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How to satisfy the most essential human hunger
Why do we scarf down a whole bag of sour cream n’ onion chips? Or eat a tub of ice cream in one sitting? And maybe that’s not you, but maybe you’ve been known from time to time to have a few more pieces of pizza than you should. I acknowledge the fact that yes, these foods are designed to be addictive, there is another reason why some of us may have difficulty eating just a little. I’ve written about the first 3 human hungers recently. The number four human hunger, and the only true human hunger is for…
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