A Bite-Size Read for Your Health and Your Waistline With a new season, a new year or new chapter in our lives, we often reflect on the previous ones and think about what we hope to accomplish in the next. In doing so, and if you listen to many “gurus,”…

A Bite-Size Read for Your Health and Waistline So…who else has a hard time throwing away food? Show of hands! This is a little confronting for a lot of us. It reminds me of what so many of us were told by our parents growing up: finish all the food…

A Bite-Sized Read for Your Health and Waistline Have you heard the term “antifragile”? It means we become stronger after exposure to stressors and challenges. Coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professor, former trader, and hedge fund manager, he mostly talks about it in the context of business, infrastructure, and…

A Bite-Size Read for Your Health and Your Waistline When discussing health and nutrition, we often talk about antioxidants and free radicals (molecules with an unpaired electron). You may hear experts and influencers use the word “glutathione” in relation to these two things, too…but what is it, exactly, and what…

Fad Diets, Marketing, and How to Navigate it All It All Comes from Within! Welcome to May aka National Nutrition Month! During this time, there’s a reminder of eating better, for yourself and those around you. Health is wealth, after all. Yet, whenever we talk about nutrition and wellness, there’s always that devil on the…

A Bite-Size Read for Your Health and Waistline Have you seen hemp in your grocery store? With the craze around plant-based products, hemp is on the rise. First, to dispel a common misconception…hemp is NOT the same as weed! While they are two varieties of the same plant, they have…

A Bite-Size Read for Your Health and Waistline Chia seeds’ popularity has grown exponentially in recent years, becoming a household name thanks to its superfood status. I’ve mentioned them in various episodes of my podcast, and recently a friend sent me a post from a big-time influencer. This “expert” said…

How to Make Nutrition Achievable, Easy to Incorporate, and Fun for All Ages How to talk about nutrition in our families is one of the most frequent questions asked of me…so here it is! Let’s first set the stage then outline how to make changes along with what changes to…

A Bite-Size Read for Your Health and Your Waistline Have you heard of black cohosh (pronounced koh-haw-shh)? How about black bugbane, black snakeroot, fairy candle, rheumatism weed, or battleweed? All of these refer to a perennial shrub-like plant that grows in the forests of the eastern United States and Canada…