Dark chocolate or chocolate sorbet: an honest treat, one that your body will actually realize is a food. Which is far more than can be said for far too many other items that are no longer really food these days. “I’ve been eating so clean; I deserve a treat!”, I overhead the other day at […]
Read More ›What will 2025 bring for you? According to the Cleveland Clinic (1) , the top five New Years Goals are are: Eat healthier · 2. Work out more · 3. Drink less · 4. Manage stress · 5. Quit smoking Not too surprising, giving the landscape of our current society. But how long have these […]
Read More ›MTHFR, Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase, is the rate-limiting enzyme in the methyl cycle, and it is encoded by the MTHFR gene (1). Every human has two copies of this gene, one from each parent and some, in fact, many ( an estimated 40% (2), have a gene mutation. I have it, my husband has it, and so […]
Read More ›What comes to mind when you hear the words ‘chicken nugget’? Likely, something offered up at the drive through window at a fast food place that may or may not actually contain chicken as one of fifty ingredients but certainly is not something that would be considered a healthy option. For instance, McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets’ […]
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