Health Hack #6: Know your Produce Codes – Embrace the #9s
The price look-up (PLU) code system is used by most produce distributors but also allows consumers to be in-the-know to identify conventional and organic produce at the grocery store. Even though the defeat of Proposition 37 means that genetically engineered information will not be added to labels at this time, PLU codes do have the potential to…
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Health Hack #4: Swap Pasture Raised Eggs for Free Range Eggs
According to a 2007 Federal law, chickens labeled as Free Range (or Cage Free) can instead be crammed inside a warehouse and fed corn and soybeans as long as a door to a small patch of grass is left open for at least 5 minutes a day. Five minutes a day!?! Of course, crowding alone prevents…
Read MoreHealth Hack #3: It’s time for an almond flour swap!
Glucose and Gluten = bad. And both are key culprits in white sugars and white flours. Not only does sugar spike insulin levels in the body, it wreaks havoc on our internal inflammation leading to all sorts of heath issues. And it literally feeds cancer and supports its growth. And gluten…well basically it’s destroying our…
Read MoreAlmond No-Bake Energy Balls
Swap your white flour for almond flour! These Almond No-Bake Energy Balls are simple & easy. Indulge your sweet tooth the healthy way! Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 0 minutes Ingredients 2 cups almond flour (you can substitute tigernut flour or walnut flour) 1 tsp pure vanilla extract *homemade if possible 5 tsp…
Read MoreSetting Daily Affirmations
Daily Affirmations? Surely something I never had time for or didn’t slow down enough to appreciate before things changed. I could barely think, let alone remember an intention for the day. Who has time for that, right?!? But everything is different now and setting a daily affirmation is one of the first things I stumbled…
Read MoreHealth Hack #2: Swap Bare Almond Butter for Peanut Butter
Did you know that peanuts aren’t actually nuts at all but rather legumes (aka beans)? For that reason alone, they need to be avoided. If you haven’t already read my blog on lectins, start there first or this post will make your head spin. Long story short – peanuts are FULL of lectins. Here’s a…
Read MoreNutrition Matters! Winning with the Plant Paradox approach
I had the pleasure of first being introduced to a lectin this year, and it has truly changed my life. In a world where we are constantly being inundated with the word “diet” and short-term, quick win programs to appease our need for instant gratification, it’s challenging to sort through the chaos. Throw in a…
Read MoreAlternative Care: A Holistic Approach
This topic is one near and dear to my heart in so many ways and will for sure be the crux of so many more blogs in the future. For me, it started on day one after diagnosis – well maybe not literally day one (more like week one) but still, the critical necessity of…
Read MoreSetting Short-term Goals
I can assure you that after an initial health diagnosis everything is a blur, with a capital “B”. Mind swirling, a revolving door of doctors, nurses and tests, and family members in shock and sadness….and so much more. Suddenly it came to me – I need a goal, my first “finish line” – and I…
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