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 […]
Botanical Nutrition Therapy
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, […]
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 […]
