Articles & Recipes
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Yogurt Marinated Chicken with Massaged Kale
This chicken dinner dish is bursting with traditional eastern flavors, but packs a modern healthy punch. Served with a massaged kale salad, this recipe is a balanced, healthy meal that is high in protein and vitamins, and low in carbs and calories. The yogurt marinated chicken is juicy and flavorful, while the kale salad is…
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Golden Almond Butter Dip Recipe
This dip is incredibly easy to make and wonderful with raw vegetables for a healthy mid-morning or afternoon snack. You can also turn it into a salad dressing or sauce for cooked vegetables—just dilute with a little rice vinegar or lemon juice and water. If you are serving as a dip, sprinkle with a bit…
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Our Secrets For Navigating Restaurant Menus
If there’s one challenge to maintaining a well-balanced, nutritious diet, it’s eating out. Whether for work, travel or convenience, restaurant food is incredibly high in calories and can derail even the best of diets. Check out our tips for navigating restaurant menus so you can stay on track. How to Eat Healthy While Dining Out…
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Mountain Trek Granola Breakfast Bowl
This easy-to-make, yet packed full of nutrients and protein, breakfast recipe starts with a base of plain greek or regular yogurt, followed by our cinnamon granola, and then topped with your favorite fruit or phytonutrient-rich berry. Breakfast is a vital component of your balanced health—this one will certainly fuel your energy needs for the morning.…
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Why You Should Take Your Next Wellness Trip Solo
Solo wellness travel is growing in popularity. As individuals realize the value of recharging alone, and without all the responsibilities of home to bring with them. This is something we’ve long known and treasured at Mountain Trek: the return to the self while spending time in deep nature. Check out the top three reasons why…
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What’s so hot about Hot Springs? Reasons to go for a soak
Hot springs have an especially high mineral content and comforting hot waters. Soaking in the healing water is natural therapy for mind, body and spirit.
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The Key To Self-Care: Deservedness
In conversations about wellness, you may have seen “self-care” pop up. We believe self-care is crucial to whole-self wellness and lifelong vitality — but what we don’t talk about when we talk about self-care is the underlying value that makes it possible. First Things First: What Is Self-Care? Self-care is anything you do deliberately to…
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4 Reasons Why Fad Diets Fail
At Mountain Trek, we’re used to hearing all about fad diets that people have experimented with — the Keto diet, the Mediterranean diet, paleo diet, military diet— and we don’t recommend any of them. The very definition of the verb “to diet” tells you exactly why this approach to achieve vitality fails: “to restrict oneself…
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The Real Commitment That Will Turn Your Health Around
As a culture, we’re obsessed with quick fixes: the newest workout class craze, the buzziest new “superfood” ingredient, the shiny new supplements — we’re incredibly seduced by the idea that health and wellness is just one consumer decision away. The truth is, there is no pill for vitality. It’s not easy — as Kirk likes…
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Thriving During The Holidays
The Key To Surviving The Holidays? Kindness. The holidays can be a fraught time for health goals. With an influx of food, family, and oftentimes stress, many people feel overwhelmed and powerless to maintain a healthy balance. At Mountain Trek’s fitness retreat and health spa, we spend all week detoxing from what the body, mind…
