11Apr
Hello friends and happy Monday. Hopefully it’s relatively happy. Today is the last Monday of my twenties. That’s kind of strange for me to wrap my head around. Not that I’m upset or nervous or desperately trying to hold on to years gone by, it’s just strange to realize that growing up actually does happen.
I spent the last weekend of my twenties hanging out with a life long friend and two other friends who recently had a baby. It was great watching every little wiggle of a finger and kick of a foot, processing...
04Apr
The touch…. The feel…. Of Pesticides… The Fabric of our lives!
This week’s tip is to consider purchasing organic cotton products. Think sheets, towels, clothing. This is something that I am very interested in, especially in my future wellness center I am eagerly planning. I’ve been reading up a lot recently on the state of cotton production in the world and it’s a frightening picture. Cotton is apparently the most heavily insecticide sprayed crop in the world, with one popular chemical used...
28Mar
It’s spring time folks! Although the weather in NYC wouldn’t necessarily prove it. Spring is a time of renewal and your body wants to renew as well! If there’s any time of year to do a detox, or spring cleaning for your insides, this is the prime time. Detoxing doesn’t have to mean starving. It can just mean giving your body an added little push by helping it do what it does all the time anyways, by avoiding the things that slow it down and eating more of the things that encourage elimination and internal cleaning....
22Mar
I was reading an old Natural Health magazine at work yesterday and wouldn’t you know…I stumbled upon this great nugget of information to help drive home the point about the importance of “de-chemical-izing” your home and body products.
There is a book called “Slow Death By Rubber Duck; The Secret Danger of Everyday Things” by authors Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie. I can’t wait to get my hands on it, even though it will probably freak me out. Here’s the magazine’s original write up:
“By...
21Mar
Being healthy isn’t just about eating well and working out. There are so many other factors in our world that can affect our health. We may think that we only have control over what we choose to put in our mouths or how we work out, but there are many other things we can do to help us feel and look better.
Choosing environmentally friendly household products is a big player in that department. Our livers detoxify thousands of chemicals and bi-products of internal processes a day. Why expose yourself to a slew of other chemicals...
14Mar
Eat the yolks!
That is this week’s tip. Many people still think egg yolks are bad for you because they have fat and cholesterol. Well guess what? We need fat, and the cholesterol in eggs doesn’t do the same thing to our body that the cholesterol from factory farmed meat does.
Egg yolks have most of the nutrition of an egg, including some very important nutrients like lutein. Give those up, and you’re really only eating a couple grams of protein, which is only going to leave you hungry in a few minutes.
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07Mar
I’ve picked a very easy tip this week that can truly make a difference in your life.
Green Tea. Green tea is one of the healthiest and simplest things you can do in your life, just choose an organic brand to make sure you aren’t getting any added pesticides in those leaves.
The health benefits of green tea run the gamut from metabolism increasing to lowering LDL cholesterol. China has used it in their medicinal arsenal for close to 4,000 years to things from remedying headaches to cancer. A compound in green tea...
28Feb
If I take something that is whole and then break it into a million pieces and mix those pieces with some other things so that they take on a completely different form than the original, can you still call it “whole”?
This is the problem with “whole” grain marketing. When talking about the benefits of whole grains, your body benefits from eating them in their whole unaltered state. The layers of nutrients are cracked by your digestive system in a systematic and timely fashion releasing energy for some time to...
21Feb
Hello readers and happy Monday! Hopefully this week will better than last week for me. I’ve chosen a very important “Tip” for this week as it is something I hear people talking about regularly who are trying to be healthy. Eating fish.
We all know that fish can be a healthy part of the diet, but it can also wreak havoc on health. Unfortunately, our oceans are so incredibly polluted it is difficult to find a fish out there without carcinogenic contaminants in their tissue. Overfishing is a huge problem, and what...
07Feb
Welcome to my second Tip of the Week!
This tip is about an extremely important vitamin that a deficiency in is being implicated left and right from cancers to heart disease, strokes, even allergies.
It’s Vitamin D. The sunshine vitamin.
Vitamin D is synthesized when the sun hits our uncovered, un-sunscreened skin. All it takes is about 15 minutes of exposure a day to get what you need, but most people, even people in warm weather climates don’t always get this. It is essential to supplement with this immune...
