Does food affect your mood? If you have ever been out shopping on a busy Saturday, running errands much later than you expected, and your mega-caffeinated beverage of choice wears off leaving you wandering store aisles – tired, foggy and grumpy – then you know the answer is a definite YES! [...]
Why was I in Long Beach last weekend, wearing red and looking for the healthiest places to eat? Attending the largest health coach convention in the world – the Institute for Integrative Nutrition Mega Conference. Over 5000 attendees, some from places as far away as South Africa and South Korea, gathered to [...]
You know the telltale signs. That scratchy throat, increased fatigue or congestion that tells you that a cold is coming. A week of general crumminess feels inevitable. But as a health coach, I am always looking for ways to beat the odds with healthy eating. You can take charge and circumvent, or [...]
I have a large, leggy thyme plant in my kitchen. It grew to abundance over the summer, and I rescued it from the back deck when the first snows hit in late October. This time of year, it spends most days on my kitchen floor, near the sliding glass door, surviving on [...]
Last weekend, with a container of fresh blueberries and an unexpected half-hour on hand, I decided to revamp a blueberry waffle recipe to make it healthier. What I hadn’t expected is that they turned out to be off-the-chart scrumptiously delicious – way better than the original. Bake up a batch this weekend. [...]
Did you know that today is Ditch Your New Year’s Resolution Day? Yep, there is a national day to officially cut ourselves ourselves loose from resolutions that we have been unable to maintain. This reveals a reality: Real, sustained change can be difficult. Well intended New Year’s Resolutions to lose weight, exercise [...]
This week the dangers of cookie dough hit the newswires. A report on the 2009 E. Coli outbreak, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned that “you shouldn’t eat cookie dough raw, no matter where it comes from.” People have been (unwisely) sneaking bites of raw cookie dough for [...]
Grocery store aisles are overflowing with packaged and processed foods and drinks. Filling our baskets and carts with sodas, frozen prepared meals, and boxes of snack foods is just, well, normal. But have you ever wondered why our taste buds are tantilized by the initial pop and zing of the latest soft drink? Why our [...]
After reading about Kamut®, the trademarked, giant, high-energy, ancient khorosan wheat from Egypt (maybe even found in a pharoah’s tomb,) I just had to try it. I found a bag in the packaged bulk grain aisle at my local organic grocery store. The grains looked like large golden rice, and the package said [...]
Cinnamon . . . there’s no mistaking its beckoning aroma, the one that tickles your nose and makes your stomach growl for apple pie. But did you know that while this lovely spice is tantalizing your taste buds, it is also doing some real and serious work inside you? […]
