“I am a meat eater”. This label arose during a recent conversation with a friend who has toyed with different types of eating regimes after battling cancer. During a raw cleanse as part of her healing, she dove in to researching whether or not there really was a correlation between what she ate and how […]
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The philosophy that having an optimistic disposition in every situation in one’s life attracts positive changes and increases achievement is something often referred to as PMA (positive mental attitude); optimism and hope are vital to its development (1). But how much of it is attitude… and how much is belief? This all occurred to me […]
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On the way to enjoy a weekend getaway and thinking in order to enjoy yourself, you’ve got to throw caution to the wind with your healthy eating habits? Say goodbye to diet and deprivation and hello to enjoyable eating. Even those of us who consider ourselves to be foodies ( and yes, I’m included in […]
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What inspires you? The nurse who just won the Boston Marathon after she decided to do it, just for fun (1)? The world class athlete who, despite suffering a broken neck just days before the Ironman World Championships last year, rallied and toed the line at the very same race and executed a screaming fast […]
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If I were writing this about twenty years ago, and I were to discuss the idea of diet cola and one’s gut, a diatribe about how diet cola is a great way to prevent you from developing a one might have been par for the course. As a 16-year-old girl interested in health, fitness and […]
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What you’re looking at is not a commercially prepared workout recovery drink, nor is it what I personally what I drank for years and years. You’re looking at bone broth. Iced and blended. And maybe sometimes with just a touch (a touch only inasmuch as not to inundate the body with sugar) of fresh beet juice […]
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Sleep awareness week is one of the nationally recognized themes I am a huge advocate of, perhaps even more so than other health issues. Why? Because it’s something which, despite being a fundamental part of one’s overall picture of health, is often overlooked, as if hours spent sleeping were easily interchanged for more time spent […]
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You may be wondering why I’ve mentioned mezcal a few times over the past couple of months. No, I haven’t replaced it for water, but I do have some exciting news. The reason I’ve been so excited about sharing this one spirit in particular is, in fact, personal. Over the past 11 years that I’ve […]
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Does this look like a meal you could cobble together in a few minutes from less than five items purchased in a hurry at the grocery store? Aside from the plate, it is. Why is this important? Because life brings us tricky situations that can throw us off our eating regime when certain situations arise. […]
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Are you working the graveyard shift? A recent study has linked night-shift work to an increase in Type – 2 Diabetes (1). Compared with day workers, people who occasionally worked night shifts were 15 percent more likely to have diabetes; those who rotated shifts with some night work were 18 percent more likely; and those […]
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