Ah, the holiday season is officially in full swing. For most of us, this means fun parties and cocktails and entertaining and running around crazy to pick out gifts and decorations. Not to be a party pooper, but the average Thanksgiving dinner has over 2,000 calories. This doesn’t count pumpkin pie for dessert! Or wine [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Vacation!
Holistic Nutrition Bytes will be on vacation until November 25. Please check back that week and stay tuned for some delicious and healthy Thanksgiving recipes.
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Women’s Health Monthly: The Bitter Pill
Ah, the pill. Liberation for women for almost 50 years now.
Hormonal birth control - including the pill, the patch, the ring, and depo provera - is the most popular form of birth control. On the surface, it seems perfect: conveniently pop, apply, insert, or inject whatever form you choose and then relax. Your chances of [...]
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The Latest Pharmaceutical LIE
A new study (click to read) has made headlines and has people buzzing. Apparently, if everyone takes the cholesterol-lowering statin drug CRESTOR, you’ll have a 54% lower risk of a heart attack! It’s a miracle!
Folks, this kind of information is disturbing for many reasons. First off, guess who funded this study? AstraZeneca, maker of Crestor! [...]
A Tribute to my Favorite Tonics
Let food be they medicine, said Hippocrates, the father of medicine. Foods can be wonderful tonics, supporting health through the seasons and also through detoxification and periods of sickness. I grabbed some honey off the shelf the other morning after slightly overindulging in some delicious wine the night before, knowing that the enzymes and minerals [...]
First Class Holistic Nutrition Consultation
Just reminder about the special offer I’m extending to celebrate my arrival at Dr Morgan Camp & Associates’ integrative medical in Mill Valley. Through the end of December, we are offering 3 holistic nutrition consults with me for $150. This is nearly 50% off what you would normally pay for 3 sessions. Dr Camp [...]
What Did You Have for Dinner?
Thanks to my brother and his girlfriend, last night I enjoyed the awesome jambalaya recipe that I posted a couple days ago. Boy is it tasty! I whipped up a mixed green salad with some avocado and a quick homemade balsamic vinaigrette: 1/2 cup high quality extra virgin olive oil to 1/2 cup balsamic, add [...]
Love Your Liver!
Do you have migraines? Bad PMS and periods? Do you feel generally sluggish, or do you carry excess weight around your midsection? Did you know that your liver could be an unhappy contributor to these symptoms?
Let us honor the liver, the hardest working organ in the body. Every single thing you eat, drink, breathe, and [...]
Are You Drinking the Whole Foods’ Kool-Aid?
I’m not talking about whole foods (apples, kale, anything unadulterated that comes out of the ground, off the vine or the stalk or the tree), I’m talking about Whole Foods.
After reading public health lawyer Michele Simon’s post on a recent ground beef recall from nationwide Whole Foods’ grocery store chains, I got to thinking. First [...]
A Celebration Recipe!!
the whole nation watched with bated breath as we made history and voted for CHANGE. in honor of this election day 2008, here is a celebratory recipe, good to feed a crowd. Excellent for dinner parties. So delicious and festive and chock full of healthy, hearty yumminess. I switched out white rice for brown to [...]
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