Using At-Home Time to Create New Habits

It’s not only adults who may be finding themselves overdoing it on the snacks during quarantine, it turns out emotional eating in children is also on the rise. A recent article in the NY Times (1) focused on how boredom and stress are two big contributors to emotional eating, and children, just like adults, have […]

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Avoiding “Quarantine 15” Weight Gain

What you eat during self-quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic can help you cope better, stay healthy, focused and fit…or make your stress worse, increase inflammation and cause weight gain. When quarantine began, we saw a situation not unlike what I’ve been told by a handful of elderly neighbors was experienced in times of war:  stocking […]

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Finding the Calm

This might seem a tad off topic from nutrition or optimal performance at first blush, but in actuality, how calm (or not) we are plays a large role not only in how our overall stress is, but how capable we are of digesting and assimilating our foods. Given the current challenge we’re faced with, one […]

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BOOST YOUR IMMUNITY NOW

Wondering what to purchase when the stores are packed with panicking people, but completely devoid of packaged items on the shelves? In this time when so many are panicking, I believe we need more voices and thought leaders to help us all find our calm in the chaos. By no means am I downplaying the […]

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