When you make the decision to start eating more healthfully, it may seem like the hardest part is over. Once you choose your diet, you just hop on the bandwagon, buy the food and everything goes the way it should. You lose weight. You stabilize your cholesterol, your blood sugar, your digestion, etc. Your skin…
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Taking the Frustration Out of Eating & Being Healthy While Being Comfortable In Your Own Skin
Tag Archive: Fad Diet
I’ve Just Gotta Be Me
There’s this song that goes through my head every so often. I’m not the world’s best singer, so I won’t post a video of me attempting to sing but if you’re lucky, you might catch me singing along while I run. That is, if you ever find me in Central Park or on the road…
Guilt Sucks!
I don’t know if it was my upbringing, but I learned from a very young age that if you don’t have anything nice to say, then you don’t say anything at all. Well, in my opinion, that only works half the time. And this is not one of those times. If I…
What Is Your Body Crying Out For?
Diets are a funny thing. First off, I hate the name of them. When does anything with the word “die” in it mean a good thing? Second, they just don’t work. Okay, maybe they work for a little bit, maybe a few weeks, a month or even a few months. But long term, they just…
Diets Don’t Work Long-Term
I’ve seen it all and done a few of them myself, but the studies are done, the proof is there- diets do not work long term. In the matter of 3 days, I received the same article published by a research lab at UCLA by 3 very different but very respectable medical or health newsletters….
The Mediterranean Diet
Diets Based On Culture & What That Means To You For some reason or another, I never really entertained the thought of my culture, my familial background, as being something I should take into consideration when I was deciding what to eat. However when I began my training as a Holistic Health Counselor at the…
The Blood Type Diet
I was first introduced to the Blood Type Diet, “Eat Right 4 Your Type” as written by Peter D’Adamo, ND, in early 2006. I heard him speak as part of my training at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. I found the concepts fascinating and completely realistic. Although I can see how following the recommended blood…