Nutrition
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How your Diet can Kick Pre-Diabetes to the Curb
Lowering stress and having a healthy diet are two great approaches for preventing pre-diabetes and ultimately Type II diabetes. Limiting processed foods, increasing the variety of healthy choices and ensuring a balanced variety of trace minerals will keep blood sugars in check. Read more about nutrition from Jennifer in the blog… Read More
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How is Sprouted Grain Bread Different?
Sprouted grain bread is becoming mainstream, and for good reason. Sprouting makes seeds come to life, as they literally begin to grow little shoots, making their nutrients more digestible. Whole grains naturally contain valuable vitamins, minerals, amino acids, proteins, and phytochemicals; sprouting makes these valuable nutrients more bio-available. Read more… Read More
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The Discomfort of too much “Comfort” Food
Getting a Handle on Emotional Eating During the holiday season, eating healthy can be hard when you are surrounded by temptation. The holidays can also be stressful and trigger psychological reasons to munch, even though we’re not hungry. Whether it’s due to loneliness, or to distract from an issue brewing in our life, it’s tempting… Read More
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Nutrition Tips for Beating the Winter Blues
By Jennifer Keirstead, Holistic Nutritionist Do you get the winter blues, and eat more sugar and junk food than you care to admit? The weather and season affect our mood and health in profound ways. The lack of sunlight affects our serotonin and melatonin levels and disrupts our circadian rhythm – the body’s internal clock… Read More
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Are Protein Bars Really a Health Food?
By Jennifer Keirstead, Holistic Nutritionist Investigating “Healthy” Meal Replacements in a Wrapper It seems that in today’s fast-paced world, we’ve developed the need for quick snacks and meal replacements. Protein bars saturated the market in the 80’s and have since been widely accepted as a healthy snack, or a quick meal on-the-go. While these bars… Read More
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Healthy Workday Lunch Ideas
By Jennifer Keirstead, Holistic Nutritionist Do you make your workday lunch, or buy one? That little thing called lunch can actually be holding you back from meeting your goals to eat better. We know, it’s not always easy to eat a healthy lunch. Sometimes, you might not have the energy in the morning to pack… Read More
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You Are What You Absorb
By Jennifer Keirstead, Holistic Nutritionist Are you speed-eating, and getting a “food hangover”? Given that we rarely chew our food properly these days, you might say that chewing is somewhat of a lost art. In this fast-paced world of rushing here and there, we are literally shoving food down our throats, and inhaling our meals… Read More
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Free (to) Range
We all love eggs but did you know that not all eggs are created equal? You’ve probably heard of “free-range” before. According to Wikipedia, “free-range is a method of farming where animals are permitted to freely roam about. This principle allows the animals as much freedom as possible to live in a reasonably natural way.”… Read More
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Spring Cleaning For Your Body
It’s not just your home that can use some spring cleaning. There are some paths to health that use the natural rhythms of the seasons to assist the body’s own natural cleansing systems. For instance, in traditional Chinese medicine, each season is associated with a different organ, and spring is the season of the liver.… Read More
