A lot of articles have been written lately claiming sitting as the new smoking, and damaging your health. With summer just around the corner, the warm weather can help facilitate getting out and doing something, anything! Plan out a fun summer with the family or friends around doing different activities to move your body. Let’s start setting aside time to focus …
Minimize the Toxins in Your Home
Why all the fuss about toxins lately? Because they affect your health. They are pervasive in our environment and although we can’t be completely toxic free, lowering our exposure can have profound effects on our health. So how do we lower the toxins around you? We should start with knowing what they are! What is a toxin? It helps to …
The Sugar Season is Over. Now What?!
What is a Health Program, and Why It Can Help? Let’s start with a real example: I was working with a client who was continuing to suffer from upset stomach and bowels, even after she incorporated health advice from her naturopathic doctor. She was miserable. To find the culprit, I designed a personalized Health Plan that used the Elimination Diet, …
Creating Habits and Making Them Stick
Watch Those Small Things Become Big Things Sometimes making new healthy habits can seem insurmountable. I know, I have made some changes in my life that I never thought possible. It didn’t happen overnight, but it did happen, and that’s what’s important. An example is that I used to hate blueberries. Yes, crazy! But I grew up on a farm …
Gifts to make cooking easy and fun!
A superb kitchen tool expedites cooking. While an old and poorly designed utensil causes frustration … and it can even be dangerous. With the holidays coming, it is perfect timing to buy (or ask for!) new kitchen gear. Plus, if you have good kitchen tools, you’re more likely to enjoy cooking, and I’ve noticed as clients have tools that work …
Cooking as light exercise?
“Get your body moving the way it wants to get moving.” Huffpost Living Canada released a short and informative video that pinpoints the modern problem of sedentary living. Our lifestyles, including our jobs, require too much still time. It’s not that we’re not productive … it’s that we’re not moving physically. Dr. Alice Chen, who narrates the video, explains that …
The Truth about Olive Oil
So whats the big deal when choosing olive oil? We have all heard about the health benefits of olive oil, so I want to focus on helpful tips for finding fresh and genuine oil, but first some background. Learn what negatively affects the industry Sadly, the olive oil market is full of fake, mislabeled, or diluted product. It’s such a …
Vitamin D—all year round!
Lately, with all the talk about Vitamin D, it’s easy to assume that it’s just hype, but continuing research reveals Vitamin D’s multifaceted role in your life! Just scan these headlines from news and research source Science Daily to see the big picture. (You can even click the links to learn more.) Higher levels of vitamin D correspond to …