It’s time to change the way you think about fat. For the past 30 years well-meaning diet gurus have preached that eating fat makes you fat. I’m here to tell you that fat, in and of itself, is not what is making you fat. Instead, it’s eating too much of the wrong types of fat. [...]
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How many reasons do you have for loving or hating this time of year? For me, the holiday season is a time to be present with myself and my loved ones. I take pleasure in slowing down for a brief intermission from the daily grind to give some thought as to how I want to [...]
I can’t think of a better time of year than the holidays to embrace all that life throws at us. Stress levels tend to soar about potential disasters many of us fear this season. Does it seem inevitable that you will get sick, worry about family issues, blow your diet, or face delays at the [...]
In this final blog on raising healthy eaters I share effective tactics to introduce your little ones to the kitchen, create a playful and safe space for experimenting and learning, and instill a lifelong love for the process of nourishing themselves and their loved ones. Employing excellent tactics for tricking your kids into preferred behavior [...]
A baby nursing at a mother’s breast… is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature. -David Suzuki In Part I of the Raising Healthy Eaters series we talked about flexibility and guidelines. In Part II we continue the journey providing guidelines and hints for introducing your baby to the art of healthy eating. As [...]
As a father of two, I have had my share of parenting trials and tribulations. Raising children is the hardest yet most rewarding job I have had. What I have come to realize as a parent is that there is a great deal of letting go and going with the flow. Flexibility is the secret [...]
With the holiday season right around the corner, there is no better time than the present to fortify our diet and cement healthy eating. Ironically, while healthy eating is our birthright, for many of us it seems like taking the plunge into eating a whole foods-based diet is the equivalent to traveling to some distant [...]
The slow insidious displacement of home cooked and communally shared family meals by the industrial food system has fattened our nation and weakened our family ties. The Great Life Cookbook, written my oldest dearest college friends with whom I shared countless communal meals over 30 years ago, is the catalyst that can turn this tide [...]
The last thing we need is more junk food. But Americans have a love affair with junk food that will not soon be broken. Candy is a $30 billion industry, growing at $1 billion a year. At Halloween alone about $2.3 billion of candy is sold—an estimated 600 million pounds—and most of it is given [...]
Coffee is the magic elixir that keeps America humming. Before indoor plumbing was available and potable water was everywhere, Americans drank beer for breakfast and all through the day, resulting in a slow start to our nation’s prosperity. Then the coffee bean was discovered in the 1800s. Caffeine and coffee replaced alcohol and beer and [...]
“It’s much easier in hindsight to see how you’ve arrived at your current point than it is to have a grand design at the beginning,” says Dr Mark Hyman, variously the founder and medical director of The UltraWellness Center in Massachusetts, US, chair of the Institute for Functional Medicine, family physician, medical editor at the [...]
If you are like me, summer is a great time to catch up with friends and family which usually involves a fair amount of travel. I have always enjoyed travelling, but not until I ventured deeper into healing myself with Functional Medicine did my body return this affection for the road. When I first began [...]