Hidden Sources of Gluten + Can You Feel What Your Antibodies are Doing?
Gluten (Latin word for “glue”) is the substance that gives bread its airy and spongy texture and dough its sticky texture. Gluten is an inflammatory protein found in many grains such as wheat, semolina, spelt, kamut, rye, and barley. But gluten was not always a part of our food supply. You can read more about it…
Apricot-Quinoa Cereal
Apricots are those beautifully orange colored fruits full of beta – carotene and fiber and rich in vitamin C. Apricots are rich in antioxidants which means they protect against the damage of free radicals. Other health benefits include protection of eyesight, heart health, apricots protect against inflammation, help control blood cholesterol levels, and support…
Amazing Bone Broth!
Excerpt from the Young at Heart French’s Forest: The Amazing Health Benefits of Bone Broth Besides the exquisite flavor bone broth imparts into any savory dish, it also: Is full of minerals Fortifies the immune system Enhances digestion Nourishes all body parts related to collagen. This means the joints, tendons, ligaments, skin, mucus membranes, and…
Are Grains Healthy?
For years our society has been grain-obsessed and centered on the notion that bread is the “staff of life.” However, today’s bread and grains are not the same as what our ancestors consumed – wheat has been genetically modified to include gluten and researchers say this has affected all the grains we consume. Even with…
Are Low Carb Diets a Trigger for Thyroid Disease?
I’m sure you’ve encountered a doctor who at some point advised you to “eat less and exercise more.” We ladies with Hashimoto’s or hypothyroidism hear it all the time, right? With that said, and because it can be a challenge to lose weight, it can be difficult to avoid being on a diet. The problem…
Clean Eating versus Dieting
Speaking from experience, I cannot tell you how many diets, and how much money I spent many years ago (as a young health-conscious woman) on pills and programs to lose weight, only to gain it right back. You know those programs where you must “count this or that,” and write everything down, or eat certain specific packaged meals…
Do Diets Really Work?
Does this sound to familiar? You hear about this wonderful diet that will guarantee weight-loss, and all the celebrities and mainstream media are raving about it and you feel you just have to try it! So you do, and it does work at first – and then you are left with gaining more weight back almost as…
Gelatin Helps Calm Inflammation
Last week I woke up with pain in my right foot. On a scale from 0-10 it was a 9 and I had difficulty walking without crutches. What’s so odd is that I did not do anything I could recall that would have caused it…I simply woke up with horrendous pain. By the next day…