I recently read a couple of really good articles about calcium that I thought I would share with you.  Getting enough calcium seems to be on the minds of many these days.   Yet why is this a tough question?  In some instances calcium intake has become controversial?  Too much calcium has been said to increase heart problems and kidney stones.  …

Your gut, aka “inside your belly”, has been proven to be your bodies literal “second brain”. For years, the medical world has been trying to figure out what causes our moods to change and what causes common problems that most of us face like stress, anxiety, and even depression. These are common problems, and we know they are linked to …

With the new year, most people are looking to better themselves in some way.  Lose weight, eat better, cook at home more, get into yoga or just start exercising.  There is a good way to start such endeavors.  It’s called creating new habits.  We do things because they are familiar to us or an easy non thinking path we take …

Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, barley and triticale.  Gluten acts as glue that holds things together and gives our baked goods their wonderful texture.  Its also found in almost everything that is processed. Being gluten free is vital for people with celiacs disease.  But what about people who dont have celiacs?  There are people out there that …

So I was asked about good, healthy lunches for kids going back to school.  This has been a dilemma for many mom’s at the start of the school year.  And it was my own when my kids were in school.  So I began a search for what’s in for lunches these days.  One site I got a lot of great …

You are what you eat.  Well, actually you are what you absorb from what you eat.  If you are trying to improve your health and are eating better foods, you want to make sure you are absorbing all those important nutrients from that good food you are eating!  Here are 10 tips from Holistic Nutrition Lab you can incorporate into …

Posted on June 23, 2014 This year I helped a client take back his health. He had high cholesterol and was pre-diabetic. His doctor gave him 3 months to get his sugar in check or he would go on diabetic medicine. He had already been on his cholesterol lowering medications for 4 years. He worked hard with me and really …

Posted on June 5, 2014 Being a health coach is definitely an advantage when I go to work at the doctors office. It’s not that they all eat healthy there because they don’t. Snacks and goodies are brought to the office all the time either by the office staff, the patients or by the drug reps that come in. So …