As an American, I’m fortunate to have had lots of opportunities to visit Canada throughout my life, first as an East Coaster and over the last decade as a West Coaster. Aside from the beautiful terrain and super friendly people, I always thought the food just tasted better north of the border. From a social/cultural, […]
Try These Tasty No-Bake Energy Bites
It’s already mid-June and with only two weeks to go in the month I’m just getting to my quarterly blog post now. While I write for a living in my marketing communications career, I find blog writing in my nutrition work to be excruciatingly challenging. It’s not out of a lack of things to write […]
Making Your New Year’s Resolutions Stick
New Year, New You I can’t tell you how many times I’ve written the “New Year, New You” mantra throughout my many years as a Marketing Consultant for nutrition and wellness companies. It’s true that January is the perfect time to start afresh with goals and visions toward better health. But good intentions are just words without a […]
How to ‘Cleanse’ and ‘Detox’ for Life
My patients and clients often ask me about a quick ‘cleanse’ or detox program they can do such as juicing or special supplements, inquiring as to which ones I recommend. Once used to mean weaning the body off of alcohol and drug addiction, the word detox is now thought of as the panacea miracle for […]
Managing Adrenal Stress with Diet, Exercise and Adaptogens
This next topic is near and dear to me as Adrenal Stress affects so many of my women clients, and I’ve personally experienced it! So many of us are in the midst of an energy health crisis fueled by unmanaged stress and too much sugar and caffeine. We’re eternally tired, craving sweets, carbs and fatty foods, feeling anxious, […]
Helpful Resources
Interested in learning more? We’ve compiled a list of helpful websites for additional information on vegetarian nutrition, vegan shopping, sustainability, compassionate organizations, and herbs/ supplements/ complementary / integrative functional medicine. Our list is by no means comprehensive and was freely compiled – we do no accept any compensation of any kind from these organizations.
Naturally calorie-free, economical and delicious refreshment without the controversy!
From Soda to Seltzer A couple years out of college, I visited a dietitian to learn how to slim down and eat healthfully on a vegetarian diet. She immediately cut out my soda consumption – I had been drinking a Coke with meals everyday since I was a child. I never liked the taste of diet […]
Here’s an easy Vegetarian Butter ‘Chicken’ recipe
Traveling through Vancouver, BC Canada, one can’t help but notice the very sizable South Asian ethnic community here which has helped to mainstream Indian spices and dishes into Canadian cuisine. One local dish that everyone loves is known as “Butter Chicken”, a rich and spicy tomato-based curry with marinated chicken served over basmati rice. With […]
Botanical Nutrition™ Rejuvenated!
Wow, this site looks so different you hardly recognized me, eh? I’m refreshed and launching a new Whole Food Health Advocacy blog broaching such topics as food policy and politics, vegetarianism, environmentalism, nutrition, recipes … all the things I love to talk about! I’ve been speaking up and speaking out to educate folks for years and many of my […]
