Real Food Experiment Week 2
Hello everyone and how are you doing with eating Real Foods? This week, we focused on eating up quite a bit of the factory foods we had and planning for this next week. An interesting note is that while I was eating more regular factory food than normal, I gained 5 pounds. Getting back to […]
Real Food Experiment Week 1
Today marks the first day of a new way of living at my house. We are beginning an experiment to change all of our food into “real food”; food as close to nature-made as possible; food not make in factories and food that does not stop off in factories. See the introduction straight from my […]
Balance
This is really the key, isn’t it? When we are balanced, we feel good and centered. When we shift too heavily to one thing or another, we are unbalanced and start to feel frazzled and bad. It’s like the old balance scale above. If things are fairly even on both sides, it will stay steady. […]
Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit
Beans get a pretty bad rep sometimes for the gas and gastrointestinal pain that they can cause. They have complex sugars present, called oligosaccharides, which are very hard for the human body to digest. Instead of being digested in the normal fashion, beans can make it all the way to the large intestine before they […]
Coming out of the sugar month
The holidays are almost over. We can go back to our normal lives, get back to regular exercise, and eat healthy foods again. But, what if you overdid it with the sugar over the past month. Do you just stop cold turkey or wean off? I don’t try to be perfect during the holidays. […]
Do you know your colors?
Recently, I have been on a huge fruit and vegetable kick. I have always been good about eating fruits and vegetables until I really started counting how many servings I eat per day. The current recommendation is 9-12 servings. I was eating about 5. Most of the patients I work with are required to complete […]
10 Tips for Healthy Holidays
The holidays are here! If you are like me, this is the time of year when I often disregard my health, vowing to start fresh in the new year. This really doesn’t make that much sense since the new year is still almost 1.5 months away. That is almost 1/6 of the year! Do we really […]
Stay Healthy as Cold and Flu Season Approaches
As we approach the cold and flu season, I thought it a good time to discuss how to prevent illnesses from getting the best of us. I have already heard of a few cases of colds making their way to my area. Build yourself up now to avoid getting ill. First, the obvious stuff, […]
Fall Fruition
Today is the first day of autumn, the season of the harvest, the fruition of the hard work of spring and summer. It is the time to store our foods and our energy for the winter. It also begins the time when we personally begin to turn our energy inward for the season of rest. […]
How are you beating the heat?
We have had a pretty cool summer here in Indiana so far, but the heat has returned. At the request of one of my newsletter subscribers, here are some tips for beating the heat: 1. The obvious stuff: Wear a hat and sunscreen Stay out of the direct sunlight Drink a lot of water […]