I’m giving you permission to give in to your sweet tooth, in moderation, so that you don’t feel deprived and then dive into the deep end of the sugar pool. But make your choices count.
During spring, our warmer days can quickly turn to cooler evenings, and people often look to lighter but warming options for dinner. Spring soups are the perfect answer.
Spices are packed with disease-fighting compounds and although unproven and largely uninvestigated by modern Western medicine, the nutritional value of spices continues to intrigue and benefit those willing to explore their unique properties.
With overwhelming rates of cardiovascular disease in this country, we’ve probably all heard the basic tenets of heart health: control your weight, exercise regularly, watch what you eat, drink in moderation, shun cigarettes, and practice stress management. While all are legitimate suggestions, no matter what the condition of your heart, there are often some finer points regarding heart health that many doctors overlook or don’t understand.
Once thought to be a condition that only afflicted teenagers, acne can trouble us into our 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s, as if we were fresh-faced high schoolers. Indeed, the stats are high; acne affects us all at some point in our lives. But the disorder continues to be misunderstood, even by the medical community.
Whether your choice of comfort foods is based on the season, the occasion, your personal history, or your identity, there is always an emotional component to what we eat, as emotions play a significant role in what we crave. No matter the reason, there is certainly room in a healthy diet to moderately partake in whatever your heart and mind desire.
Eating cheap, processed food void of nutrition may be good for the pocketbook, but doing so puts our wellbeing in a deficit.
Skin conditions are not just skin conditions. What’s inside will always come out. Our skin is the great communicator (think megaphone) when it comes to imbalances and chronic health issues and it’s up to us to look beneath the surface for the underlying problem.
Quality, antibiotic-, and hormone-free meat is condensed nutrition. For some, eschewing red meat means denying the body of nutrients that can improve health, energy, and vitality.
Given our world of brightly lit supermarket aisles proudly displaying picture-perfect fruits and vegetables, massive distribution warehouses where foods sit in waiting, questionable post-harvest handling practices (think the E. coli outbreaks from spinach), inhumane and toxic feedlots, and less-than-flavorful produce harvested before its time in a faraway land, the growing season is the time of year to visit your local organic farmers’ market and experience the difference.
