Lately I’ve been experimenting with very simple flavors: a salad of arugula greens dressed with olive oil and herbs de provence; a pan-seared pork chop seasoned with only salt and pepper and finished in the oven; a roast chicken with rosemary, oregano, thyme; kale sauteed in olive oil or finished off with sesame oil.
I tend [...]
We’re well into January now. Have you fallen off the resolution wagon? Get back on track with a lifestyle make-over! Try it for a week.
The backbone of all the therapies I recommend is lifestyle changes. Adrenal repair, hormone balance, detoxing, getting rid of parasites, yeast overgrowth, improving immune function, stress reduction…. not a one of [...]
Trying unsuccessfully to conceive a baby is one of the most disheartening and frustrating situations a couple has to deal with. Aside from conflicting medical opinions and deciding on options, the stress associated with cost of treatments and testing can cause further complication.
For women in the conventional medical system, most doctors will do blood tests [...]
We’ve been hearing a lot about vitamin D deficiency and its role in osteoporosis, depression, heart disease and stroke, cancer, diabetes, thyroid problems, immune function — even weight loss. So what’s the big deal?
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin, meaning that it is best absorbed when eaten with fat (as in full-fat milk, eggs, or [...]
Part 3 in a 3-part series from Holistic Nutrition Bytes’ Guide to what to eat in 2009.
We’ve covered breakfast, the most important meal, and lunch, a vitally important meal for blood sugar maintenance and stabilizing energy levels. What about dinner? The adage goes “eat like a king for breakfast, a prince for lunch, and a [...]
Part 2 in a 3-part series featuring Holistic Nutrition Byte’s guide to what to eat in 2009.
Now that we’ve gotten a good breakfast down, let’s do lunch. If you have eaten the proper breakfast, you should feel energized and clear-headed and satisfied for several hours, until lunchtime. Signs that you didn’t eat a good breakfast [...]
Forget all the buzz about acai berries (although, not a bad nutritional profile. however, how much longer until these “sustainably harvested” rainforest berries destroy some amazon environment?). Here is a remarkably unexotic list of some of the best foods out there.
Sure, they taste a little like dirt and they’ll tint your poop a lovely burgundy, [...]
Part 1 in a 3 part series featuring Holistic Nutrition Byte’s guide to what to eat in 2009.
For breakfast, instead of:
-cereal with soy milk (and yes, even your organic Kashi Go Lean, which has soy protein isolate and processed grains. Soy milk is high in plant estrogens and can adversely affect hormone levels and thyroid [...]
Do you experience frequent heartburn/reflux? Indigestion? Maybe you take over the counter antacid relief, or your doctor prescribed you Nexium (the purple pill!) or Prilosec. After all, it makes sense: if you have stomach acid burning your esophagus, you need an antacid to neutralize it for pain relief, right?
Actually, this is not always the case. [...]