Cravings are your body speaking to you and telling you what it needs, or what nutrients you’re lacking. But one of the challenges in this is the reality that our food processing has gotten to the point of destruction. Our brains are wired for excess fat, salt and sugar and we crave what we “think” will Read More!
Inflammation can force your body to hold on to excess weight longer than it should. Weight loss often happens more effortlessly when the foods you eat are “inflammation friendly”, meaning they support healing rather than causing your body to go into defense mode. Clean Eating is a whole-foods approach to living without dieting. You’re crowding Read More!
Sauerkraut, yogurt, kombucha, and kefir. What do all of these items have in common? They’re full of the good bacteria called probiotics. You may have heard this term used before, considering probiotics are the hot new trend now, but what are they exactly? With a market value of $35 billion in 2015 (1), probiotics have Read More!
Does Eating Organic Have to Kill Your Grocery Budget? Â And Does it Even Matter? Â Here are the Facts! The label of organic has come to mean that something is better for you than non-organic, whether it is a food or any other product. Â This usually means a higher price on that product as well. Â Read More!
Soccer practice pick-up, family dinners, grocery shopping… the list never ends, does it? With all the activities on your to-do list it’s very easy to feel overwhelmed and stressed. To add to it, being stressed often leads to a new host of problems, including anxiety, sugar cravings, and even weight gain. Talk about adding more Read More!
A lot of us gravitate to salty foods as much or more as we do sweet ones, and there are good reasons for that. Salt doesn’t just make food taste way more delicious: our body has a real need for the nutritional value of salt from the right sources. Adequate sodium (salt) intake is essential Read More!
Let’s be honest, sweets make life complete.  We all have some kind of a sweet tooth, and that’s normal and healthy as long as we honor that desire in the way nature intended.  Nature has provided well for our need for sweetness, so that we can enjoy sweet foods and sweeteners that are truly natural Read More!
 1. Make Cooking Together Fun All you have to do is observe for a few minutes to realize that kids absolutely love being of service in the world. They try to open doors for adults and are finding ways to assert their independence as well as feel useful. One of the funnest ways to inspire Read More!
Eczema can appear in many forms and on any part of the body. It’s most often described as dry, flaky skin and often times can become itchy and inflamed. If you or someone you love has ever experienced eczema, you know how difficult it can be to find products that not only give positive results, Read More!
Since the 1970’s we’ve been told that fat is the enemy and eating anything with fat will cause weight gain. Unfortunately, that nutrition advice was wrong, and increased the rates of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and more. In fact, the obesity epidemic started around the same time as when the government recommend following a Read More!
