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!
Clean Eating on your own is already an incredible milestone, and with your family on board it’s even more fun. The reality is, asking someone to change their lifestyle just for us never works. If we want to inspire change, education is the best way. People have to make their own decisions on their own time. Watching documentaries Read More!
7 Ways to Stop Sugar Cravings for Good! Do you ever crave sugar after a meal even though you feel full? If you’ve ever experienced an insatiable hunger for sugary foods that seem to consume your thoughts, or if you’re working really hard to shed extra weight and find yourself stuck in a loop of Read More!
We know that inflammation in our bodies not only causes us discomfort and pain, but it can also directly influence our ability to shed excess weight. Inflammation blocks important brain messages that tell the body to suppress our appetite and speed up our metabolism. But when we’re eating a healthy diet that reduces inflammation, we Read More!
Losing weight can be tricky, but not for the reasons you might think. Weight loss is often reduced to a simple formula. The formula is ‘eat less calories than you burn, count your calories and work harder’ a concept we’ve been force fed by the weight loss industry, and the truth is it doesn’t always Read More!
