How To Choose Healthy Food When You’re Busy
I know, life gets in the way, right? Just this week, I had extra work piled on, doctor’s appointments, and a family emergency. How do you choose healthy food when you’re busy?
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How to Get Yourself to Love Healthy Food (or at least like it)
The list is endless, Brussels sprouts and bean sprouts; cauliflower and quinoa flour; chia seeds and chickweed; sardines and pinto beans…the list of healthy foods I don’t like is endless, while the same can be said for the list of unhealthy foods I DO like. Damn you sugar, salt, fat and carbs. Why don’t donuts contain…
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So, you lost the weight. Here’s How to Keep it Off
You did it. Through dedication, hard work and being ultra-aware of what you ate you lost 15 pounds. Now the hard part begins. You’ve got to keep those 15 pounds you lost, well, lost…out there wherever lost pounds go (maybe they just move around, jumping from one person to the next). The last thing you…
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Foods High in Essential Fatty Acids
If you’ve read this blog with any regularity, you know I often begin with a definition or two and that’s the case with this one. Essential fatty acids are forms of fat which our bodies break down into fatty acids. The “essential” part comes from the fact that our bodies need these fatty acids but…
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Foods that are Good for your Gut Health
First, why do you need a “healthy gut”, and why is it so important? The short version is that you are born with a certain microbiome. A microbiome consists of trillions of tiny organisms, all of which we don’t need to know anything about. Suffice it to say there are good and bad organisms, and…
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How to Stay Healthy This Summer
Summer can be your best friend, your worst enemy or both. I tend to think it’s both. Why do I feel this way? Summer offers many enticing aspects. However, it’s the season that most reminds of the sirens from Homer’s Odyssey. You remember them, right? They were a group of beautiful looking and singing women…
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How to Ditch Your Soda Addiction
While not considered an addictive substance in the same category as, say, crack cocaine, crystal meth, or alcohol, for obvious reasons, soda does have addictive qualities. Those addictive qualities stem from two ingredients contained within; sugar and caffeine. Both ingredients release dopamine, the “happy hormone,” within the brain and that’s what gives sugar and caffeine…
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Bad Habits that Can Cause Weight Gain
We all have them, bad daily habits that contribute to our health issues. And many of those bad habits we are unaware of, which makes them especially nefarious (from my “word of the day” calendar). As I’m sure you’ve heard before, becoming aware of the problem is the first step to eliminating it. So, let’s…
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Everything You Want to Know About Collagen, but Are Afraid to Ask
No, I don’t know why anyone would be afraid to ask questions about collagen, but it makes for a good title. Anyway, let’s get started, shall we? It turns out that collagen is the most abundant protein in the body, comprising half the protein within us. It forms long, thin fibrils that act as a…
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Six Ways to Make Healthy Eating Easier
Yes, eating healthy can be quite a chore. If that’s the case, then the opposite must also be true and that is certainly the case. Eating in an unhealthy manner is incredibly easy thanks to fast food joints on every corner and how convenient and relatively inexpensive it is to buy and prepare processed foods….
