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Caring for your ‘winter organs,’ aka the kidneys

December marks the official beginning of winter – the season that beckons us to come inside, slow down, and rest more. When traditional Chinese medicine was first developed, it wa...

DATE: Dec 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Nourishing Morsels

8 health and wellness tips for the holidays

The holidays can be a stressful time for many. It’s been shown that stress and anxiety in all areas of life including family, finance, and health and wellness seem to increase dur...

DATE: Nov 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Strength in Well-being

Six nutrition principles most fad diets don’t include

It’s been almost a year since COVID-19 butted its ugly head in the world. That might mean your kids are still at home, your favorite gym is closed, your kids don’t have school sp...

DATE: Nov 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

What sugar cravings are telling you

As we approach the winter months and the holiday seasons, sugar tends to be omnipresent and more and more of a “struggle” for people I work with. When I ask sugar-craving folks wh...

DATE: Nov 4, 2020 | CATEGORY: Nourishing Morsels

When does the creep become a problem?

That darn scale – rarely reading how it’s supposed to, right?! Well, I have some good news: It’s normal for your weight to flux up and down. As much as you might like i...

DATE: Oct 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Strength in Well-being

Why making your diet part of your identity is bad for your health - and society

American dieters have a bad case of one-thing-itis. Every diet that has gotten traction in my lifetime, an unconscionably long time, has boiled weight loss down to one thing. Sure...

DATE: Oct 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

Fad diets: Let’s talk about intermittent fasting

As we learned in this three-part series, fad diets are defined as diets that are extremely popular for a short period of time. They often promise quick weight loss or health impro...

DATE: Oct 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Finding the pause as the fall sets in

This is one of my favorite times of year – the way the light changes, watching trees shed their skin, the natural world starting to slow down ... Autumn is a giant invitation to ...

DATE: Oct 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Nourishing Morsels

Weight regain: Why it happens and what to do

Weight loss is much more complicated than calorie in and calorie out. For decades, we have been told that if we just exercised more, ate less (or at least ate everything in modera...

DATE: Sep 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Strength in Well-being

Fad diets: Let’s talk about Keto

Today let’s jump into the second fad diet in this series “Fad Diet Demystified.” Today’s fad diet – the ketogenic or “Keto” diet – promises quick weight loss and lower total-body inflammatio...

DATE: Sep 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Nightshades and arthritis are often connected

This is the time of year when fresh produce is at its peak. The farmers markets and grocery stores are an abundance of nature’s glory. Fruit is literally falling off the trees. Ho...

DATE: Sep 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Nourishing Morsels

In the quest for a pandemic coping mechanism, I’ve become a cookie monster

I don’t know when it began, but at some point during the pandemic I became somewhat panicked whenever the household cookie supply started to run low. I may have even cut out, once or twice, ...

DATE: Aug 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Food

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