Make today, the day, you take back control of your health!
Full disclosure… I am not a recipe blogger! The thing is, as I play with various low carb recipes and come up with a keeper, I feel an obligation to share. This awesome low carb cookie recipe is no exception! The way I see it, I can email this keto-licious …
CoEnzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a compound, made by our bodies, that plays a variety of roles. One such role includes it acting as a powerful antioxidant that slows the aging process. It is used by EVERY cell. CoQ10 is part of the electron transport chain and aids in producing adenosine …
Eating on a new diet is, without a doubt, challenging. You are hit with a lot of unknowns. You are likely wondering if the diet will even work. The last thing you need to be thinking about is what, when and how you are going to eat! To get the …
In short, magnesium is critically important to a healthy, happy body and mind. Here’s why. Magnesium is a metal; a mineral that is essential to our bodies. In this context, essential means that we require it but can’t make it on our own, so we need to get it from …
If you’ve ever experienced brain fog, you know it. It’s this feeling of being mentally sluggish and disconnected from the world around you. It’s like the processor in your head is overheating and you can’t quite think straight or fast enough. Your memory is toast and focus and concentration is …
The practice of eating low carb, high fat and moderate protein has been around since the dawn of man, quite literally. Our bodies evolved to survive and in order to do that we had burn multiple types of fuel. Most people, today, believe that our primary fuel type is sugar …
Being a newbie or beginner at the gym can be intimidating, if not scary. You’re in a foreign place, there’s a bunch of strangers, weights are slamming, and obnoxious people are grunting to high heaven threw their sets. All you can think of is where am I? What did I …
Stress is bad. Chronic stress is worse. A growing body of evidence shows that the impact stress has on our general health and wellness is significant. So what is it and how can you manage it? Stress is a physiological response to danger originating from our time as a primitive …
The food industry wants us to believe that we are getting more and more overweight because we eat too much and exercise too little. This position takes the responsibility off of them and puts it squarely on us! Sadly, many of us have fallen victim to believing this fiction. What …
Cold and flu season is upon us, but bacterial and viral threats are ever present. At a time when society is so very conscious about the spreading of infection and disease, it is a wonder why cold and flu season continues to wreak havoc in our communities to the degree …
Type II diabetes is a spectrum. It starts with insulin resistance, moves through metabolic syndrome and ends with full blown diabetes. Within each of these states there is, again, another spectrum. I point this out, simply, because most medical physicians treat diabetes more like a switch. Either you have it …
I was born in 1970. I remember eating very differently than we do today. I remember my grandmother cooking real food, that was savory and delicious by anyone’s standards, but I remember loving the boxes of mac-n-cheese that my mom found so convenient to fix, frequently. Boxed food was a …
