Omega-3 fatty acids are vital to both mother and baby, yet many of us fall short in eating enough. As a mom of two, I was lucky enough to breastfeed both of my boys through their first year of life. This wasn’t only a beautiful bonding experience, but breastfeeding also offers many benefits to […]
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Is Your Collagen Supplement Really Working?
If you have been taking collagen supplements to tighten your skin, you may just be wasting your money. Find out what really works instead. No doubt you have heard of adding collagen to your diet. You may even be sipping on a beverage with collagen powder mixed in right now. The collagen craze is so […]
Slimmed Down Black Forest Cake Recipe to Celebrate National Black Forest Cake Day
It’s National Black Forest Cake Day! You read that right- there is actually a cake holiday. Aren’t you glad I didn’t let you miss this one?! Have you been telling yourself you can’t have cake? If so, why? Is it a food you feel like once you start eating you can’t stop? Or do you […]
Focus on how you eat, not what you eat for weight management success
Did you set a resolution to achieve a healthier body weight in 2018? Focus on HOW you eat and NOT WHAT you eat. Sure food choices matter to a point, but restrictive diets don’t work long term. If you instead focus on how you eat, by sitting down to meals, eating mindfully, and really getting […]
How to Help Manage the Holiday Sweet Tooth
On average, Americans consume about 20 teaspoons of added caloric sweeteners daily.1 This is two to three times the recommendation from the American Heart Association, which suggests that most women consume no more than 100 calories of added sugar (about 6 teaspoons) per day, and most men consume no more than 150 calories of […]
Successfully Managing Diabetes Throughout the Holiday Season
It’s that time of year again. The holiday season is upon us, and with all of the festivities can come the seemingly inescapable holiday weight gain, or so your patients may think. Although a research study found perceived weight gain throughout the holidays to average around 3.5 pounds, in reality, actual weight gain during the […]
The #1 Reason You Are Not Losing Weight
If you are like most parents I know, you probably strive to be perfect. Your trying to be the perfect mother, the perfect friend, perfect spouse, etc. And on top of it, you are trying to eat perfectly and be in perfect shape. STOP TRYING TO BE SO FREAKIN’ PERFECT! 🙂 It’s doing more harm […]
5 Reasons to Add Plant Based Milk to Your Diet
There is a new plant based milk in town and you are going to love it! I just discovered Bolthouse Farms Plant Protein Milk, which made its debut last month and it is pretty much everything you would want a plant-based milk to offer. This new refrigerated, non-dairy milk alternative is made from pea protein, […]
3 Easy Ways to Improve Bone Health
Today marks World Osteoporosis Day, which is a day near and dear to my heart. Ever since witnessing the debilitating impact this disease had on my own grandmother, who actually fractured her back from just coughing, I have been determined to learn more about how to prevent osteoporosis. If you had asked me before I […]
Seven Omega-3 Rich Lunch Ideas the Whole Family Will Love
Are you struggling to come up with a variety of brown bag lunch ideas now that school is back in session? I usually start out the first week with lots of creativity and then after a few days of packing lunches, I run out of ideas. Sound familiar? To help you out (as well as […]