Q: What is the difference between a food sensitivity and a food intolerance? A: Here is how I define it (you may find other definitions elsewhere). A food sensitivity is genetic. You are born with it, and it is lifelong. The only way to successfully address it is to completely eliminate the food from your diet.Continue reading “Food Sensitivities, Allergies & Intolerances”
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The Transformative Power of Practice
Would you like to be the kind of person who handles her day with grace? Who navigates adversity with admirable aplomb? Who is able to find resilience in the worst of circumstances, and optimism to share through the best? One way to develop these qualities is by developing a practice. What is a practice? TheContinue reading “The Transformative Power of Practice”
Sleep: Health Essential #1
If I had to pick one thing that would improve quality of life for most people, it would be to increase both the quality and quantity of sleep they get. Falling asleep easily, staying sleeping soundly, and waking up feeling rested. Here are some tips to do just that.
A Natural Approach to Flu Prevention
I continue to get questions from anxious clients about swine flu every day. Please don’t panic. The best thing you can do is strengthen your immune system. Here is how. I know the first thing everyone wants to know is “what can I take?” and I will get to that below. But the truth is that your overall health is more essential. Never underestimate the power of lifestyle choices to determine your health, both short term and long term.
Get Healthy to Lose Weight!
If you feel like you have done everything right—with no success. If you have found that watching your diet and limiting calories, even with exercise, does not work. You are not alone. If you have had this experience, it is not your fault! So many people have tried dieting, tried exercise, and still have not successfully gotten to the weight and body composition they know they could have. One of my specialties is helping people identify the problems that have kept them from succeeding in the past, and helping them finally succeed in reaching—and even surpassing—their goals.
A Gluten Free Vegetarian Visits Egypt
I am back from Egypt, and what an adventure! You can see lots of photos on my Facebook page, so please take a look, and leave your comments. The best part of the trip, of course, was spending time with my remarkable daughter Lily, briefly getting to be part of her new and very fullContinue reading “A Gluten Free Vegetarian Visits Egypt”
Gluten Sensitivity: You Are What You… Digest
Most people wouldn’t think that these could all be caused by a food sensitivity, but they often are. Sensitivity to gluten, the protein in wheat, barley, oats, spelt and other grains, can cause these problems, and many more. People often undergo years of treatment for these symptoms without ever being diagnosed for the true underlying problem: gluten sensitivity. Although gluten is not always the cause, it may be possible to successfully manage many of these health issues only if gluten is removed from the diet.
Food Sensitivities
Identifying food sensitivities and helping clients adapt to eliminating them has been one of the most important keys to successfully assisting my clients reach their optimal health and well-being. Many clients come in with a long list of chronic symptoms, each of which has been treated, often unsuccessfully, with different medication, by a different specialist, and all of which we have been able to resolve within months simply by identifying and eliminating food sensitivities.
5 ways to help break the cycle of stress
Stress. Not only have we all got it, but it seems we’re experiencing it chronically and in increasing amounts. Chronic stress takes a huge toll physically, emotionally and mentally. Because it is linked to inflammation, it contributes to many degenerative diseases, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and arthritis. On top of all that, stress actually rewires our brain: It compromises our ability to think clearly and make good decisions. Under stress, we tend to repeat habitual behaviors, even when they don’t serve us well and perpetuate the very circumstances in which we are stuck.
Women: How to make your 40s and 50s fabulous
Is it true that, for women, aging means gaining weight, lost libido, thinning hair and increasing aches, pains and physical woes? Absolutely not! This can be a wonderful time of life, if women learn to take care of themselves as well as they’ve taken care of everyone else in the decades before.
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