Posted in Smart Choices, Wellbeing on Jul 14th, 2009
There are very few governing boards in the natural health industry. Anyone can call themselves a natural health practitioner, wellness consultant, nutrition coach and the list goes on. I suppose this is what lead two of my clients’ physicians to refer to holistic nutrition as ‘Hocus Pocus’ and “A load of huey”. I have been [...]
Posted in Dessert, Happiness, Health, Nutrition, Organic, Recipe, Smart Choices, Snack, Treat on Feb 21st, 2009
When I was a child, and thought of myself as a teenager, I thought I would be a grown up by sixteen. When I was a teenager, my friend Matt and I decided that if we weren’t married by thirty, we would marry each other, as if thirty was some age of desperation. (Incidentally, he [...]
Posted in Announcements, Disease Prevention, Happiness, Health, Holistic, Organic, Smart Choices, Wellbeing on Jan 1st, 2009
Happy New Year! I wanted to take a quick moment to add a resolution to your life, as outlined in my video. Mostly, though, I wanted to wish you the happiest and healthiest year to come. As we begin to contemplate what resolutions will make the cut for 2009, it would be difficult not to [...]
Blueberry jam on a slice of old cheddar. Yes, it may sound positively disgusting, but it is one of my most favourite things. Unfortunately, I had to give both up a few years ago because of health reasons- the jam because of the sugar and the cheese because of, well, because it was cheese. Having [...]
Posted in Health, Junk Food, Nutrition, Poison, Wellbeing on Sep 21st, 2008
Often we eat things, despite our better judgment, because they are easy, available and taste good. These reasons are acceptable to a point, but sometimes, depending on what those choices are, we really are better off eating nothing. My dad was recently in New York and sent along this photo of a pair of vending [...]
In Michael Pollan’s book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, he is telling his reader to stop being so paranoid about macronutrients (those would be fats, carbs and proteins) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) and instead just get back to the basics and eat what our grandmothers would recognize as food; that means no [...]
Posted in Green, Health, Nutrition, Recipe, Video, Wellbeing on Sep 21st, 2008
Welcome to my shiny new blog. For those of you coming over from The Healthy Cookie, I hope you didn’t miss me too much over the Summer, but rest assured, I am back. For those of you who are new to me and what I do, allow me to explain. I have, what I consider, [...]
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