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Emotional eating strategies

Do you find yourself reaching for food when you’re stressed, sad, tired, or anxious? If yes, then you could be an emotional eater. As a dietitian who has worked closely with emotional eaters...

DATE: Jan 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Insulin Resistance the pre-cursor to diabetes

November is National Diabetes month, and it’s a great time to raise awareness about diabetes and to learn how to prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes, especially if it runs in your family. Well,...

DATE: Nov 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Vegetable oils: The hidden dangers in your kitchen

When it comes to vegetables, it’s generally not difficult to determine which ones are good for you, right? Unfortunately, this simplicity doesn’t carry over to vegetable oils. Today, let’s s...

DATE: Oct 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Balancing act: The immune systems role in gut health

Do you suffer from symptoms such as gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea? If so, it’s important to understand that these gut problems are NOT normal. They are your body’s immune system te...

DATE: Sep 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Boosting brain power through nutrition

We’ve all experienced it, that moment when you can’t think of the word, and you just sort of babble as you try and get your thoughts straight. This mental “clouding” has been labeled brain f...

DATE: Aug 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Ditch the evening snacks to sleep better and feel your best

Do you know that feeling? The one where you’ve finished a healthy dinner and then thought to yourself, “I need a snack.” Then, before you know it, the entire bag of chips or carton of ice cr...

DATE: Jul 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Overcoming dieting frustrations: Navigating common struggles

Diet overwhelm is all too common: the lack of results, the difficulty of adhering to restricted eating plans, social pressures (welcome summer!), and emotional eating struggles all play a ro...

DATE: Jun 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Finding balance in your eating habits, not fads

The potential for diet overwhelm is real, and common struggles of unsatisfying results, difficulty of adhering to restricted eating plans, social pressures (welcome summer!) and emotional ea...

DATE: Jun 12, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Nourish Your Liver: The Key to Sustainable Detoxification

It’s springtime! Let’s all pull out the green detox juice to rinse away all the winter’s guilty pleasures. Green juice and smoothies are healthy, nutrient-dense additions to your diet, and I...

DATE: Apr 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Eat to heal: Transforming your body through nutritional wisdom

Have you ever considered that the food you eat could be the most potent medicine for your body, or conversely, a slow poison that undermines your health? If you're plagued by digestive issue...

DATE: Feb 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Harnessing power of protein for diabetes prevention

November is National Diabetes Month. Do you have a family history of diabetes? Do you have parent, grandparents, uncles, aunts with insulin resistance, prediabetes or diabetes? If so, today’...

DATE: Nov 7, 2023 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Stop counting calories – seriously

Every dietitian just lost faith me with the title of this article, but hang tight, it gets better. Calorie counting became all the rage starting in the mid to late 20th century, fueled by a...

DATE: Oct 17, 2023 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition