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Food for Thought: High Fructose Corn Syrup

Have you guys seen that commercial where the guy and girl are about to share a popsicle, and he’s like, “wait, doesn’t that have high fructose corn syrup in it?” and she’s like, “yeah, so?” and he can’t come up with a reason it’s bad, but he thinks he remembers hearing something about why [...]

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One Size Does Not Fit All

So here’s an interesting study:
http://bit.ly/d0guzy

“In the long-running debate over diets—low-fat or low-carb—Stanford University researchers reported Wednesday that a genetic test can help people choose which one works best for them.

In a study involving 133 overweight women, those with a genetic predisposition to benefit from a low-carbohydrate diet lost 2 1/2 times as much weight as [...]

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The Nutrition Divas Step Out!

Exciting announcement! My business partner, certified nutritionist Karen Diggs, and I have officially launched our holistic wellness workshop & coaching business here in San Francisco. Visit www.nutritiondivas.com for info on our upcoming classes, workshops, free teleseminars, tips, and MORE TREATS!

If you are in San Francisco, we are having an open house on Saturday, April 3. [...]

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Three Breakfasts

You’ve heard it before: “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!” This is true, sure, but also: what are you eating for breakfast? Let’s imagine you are beyond eating pastries and coffee for breakfast and are making an effort to eat better. You can eat a great, organic, nutrient-dense meal for breakfast, but [...]

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The Herbal Pharmacy/First Aid

Who needs Pepto or Tums when you have botanicals to help you recover and support you through illness, without the harmful side effects? Think about it next time you have a hay fever attack and are sneezy and snotty and you pop an anti-histamine: whatever the offending agent is, your body is coating it with [...]

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Sugar Detox Wrap-Up

How did you do? I emerged fine, with a little chocolate slip-up, but the entire process was very enlightening not only for myself, but for what I can now bring to my clients: a better understanding of how powerfully trigger foods work on our physiology. Trigger foods are foods that cause you to lose control [...]

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Delicate & Delicious

Want a dish to boost up your immune health? Add more antioxidants to your meal with this dish I made tonight. The fish is high in omega 3 fatty acids and is poached in green tea, which is very high in antioxidants. It would be perfect to cook for your sweetie on Valentine’s Day. It [...]

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How This Little Issue Can Ruin Your Digestion

Hypochlorhydria. It’s a fancy way of saying you have low stomach acid: not enough of it, or the PH of your stomach acid is too high (the higher the PH, the less acidic and closer to neutral), so your food is not properly broken down. You see, your stomach is a very acidic environment, with [...]

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The Great Sugar Detox, Day 18

So, I cheated. Everything was going along fine, no cravings, lost a few pounds even. But one day I just *had* to have some dark chocolate (PMS rears its ugly head). So I had some dark chocolate (85 percent, so little sugar added). A little was fine. I was careful to notice: did it make [...]

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What is “Normal?”

You know what’s not normal? Here is a list:
-pooping less than once per day (yeah, let’s talk about poop first)
-feeling groggy or tired after meals
-feeling tired in the afternoon
-burping and farting your way through the day
-waking up and not being able to fall back asleep during the night
-waking up frequently during the night
-waking up groggy [...]

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