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Does What You Eat Affect Your Appearance?
Does what You Eat Affect Your Appearance? When you look at your face, what do you see and what should you see? Does what you eat affect your appearance, does it cause inflammation? First and foremost, not all inflammation is bad. The inflammation that helps a sprained ankle heal is a good thing. That is called “acute inflammation”, and to survive, you need that type of inflammation. It helps you heal an injury and fight off an infection. When you have healed and/or recovered, acute inflammation should subside. That’s the way it is supposed to work when we are healthy. The other type of inflammation is “chronic inflammation”. That is…
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Tiny Steps for Big Changes – How to Change Your Eating Habits
Tiny Steps for Big Changes When I changed how I eat more than six years ago, I made huge sweeping changes very quickly. I did it because my husband was on a statin drug that was not so slowly killing him. By the way, if you take a statin, I suggest you review the possible side effects and be aware of rising glucose levels leading to Type 2 diabetes, memory loss, cataracts and so much more….but I digress. I did not make tiny steps for big changes; I made huge changes to our eating style because we had to get him off the statin. This meant normalizing his cholesterol levels…
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Eating Healthfully is Impossible
Eating Healthfully is Impossible…Here’s Why We all have heard how important it is to consume good food to support our long term health and wellness…both mental and physical. But what if eating healthfully is impossible? What if the state of our food production is so compromised that we are incapable of eating healthfully? In an article in the Huffington Post this week, this very topic was discussed in detail. Here is some of what really stood out for me that I want to share with you: “Food has been identified as a major cause of health problems in the U.S., with poor diet to blame for nearly half of all…
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What is Processed Food, and What Should I Eat Instead?
What is Processed Food? You’ve probably heard about the dangers of processed food. So many health experts are telling us to eat more vegetables and fruits, and to avoid “manufactured foods”. But what is processed food? Just about anyone can look at a chicken nugget and realize that whatever chicken might be present has gone through an extreme alteration. By the time it gets to our plate, it doesn’t resemble the chicken it was intended to be. Some foods that qualify for the definition of processed are “improved”. Some milk, juices and other beverages have vitamins added to them to make them healthier. For the most part, however, processed foods…
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What Processed Food Tastes Like and How We Got Here
What Does Food Taste Like to Us, and How Did We Get Here? Yesterday I was food shopping, which I actually love to do. My challenge was to find some sun dried tomatoes as my favorite brand seems to have vanished for the moment. My usual brand has olive oil and not much else which I love. It seemed everything I picked up had some kind of oil I won’t eat or sugar in it. In fact, why would you need sugar in sun dried tomatoes? All this made me wonder what processed food tastes like, and how did we get here? If you read your food labels, which I…
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How to Get Started with Healthy Eating
How to Get Started with Healthy Eating I thought it might be helpful to share some ideas for substitutions for your favorite processed foods to illustrate how to get started with healthy eating. I’m very respectful of how hard it is to change eating habits as the big food companies design their “food” to be addictive and hard to resist. We make clean eating promises to ourselves, and they might last a few days. Then the cravings for bread, sugar, pizza etc. just become too much. We fall off the wagon and get mad at ourselves; too often, we just give up. This pattern feeds into the yo-yo dieting, lose-gain-lose-gain…
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What Does “Glyphosate” Mean to You?
What does “glyphosate” mean to you? Let me ask that another way…If you found out you were eating the key ingredient in the week killer Roundup (known as glyphosate), would you care? I hope the answer is yes. If you are eating many common breakfast cereals and bars, then you are ingesting glyphosate with your morning meal. I want to share with you an article I read today. In it the author, Arman Azad of CNN writes: “In August, a jury in San Francisco ordered Roundup’s manufacturer, Monsanto, to pay $289 million in damages to a school groundskeeper who argued that the glyphosate-based weed killer caused his cancer. A judge on…
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Organic or Conventional?
Organic or Conventional? Which is better? The short answer is that organic is better for you, but we all know organic is more expensive and many of us try to stick to a budget. This begs the question, which fruits are best purchased organic and which can be conventional? I put together a short video to give you some guidelines to help with your choices when you go grocery shopping…to help you answer the question, organic or conventional…which should I buy? Please let me know if you have questions! Helping You Achieve Major Wellness in Your Life! Cheryl A Major, CNWC I am Cheryl A Major, a Certified Nutrition and…
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Healthy, Delicious Breakfast Frittata
Healthy, Delicious Breakfast Frittata Putting a healthy delicious breakfast frittata together with a few other items will give you a great start to your day, and yesterday I posted a video showing you how to make a terrific breakfast frittata. In case you missed it, here is a link to the post with the video…believe me, it’s so delicious, you won’t want to miss it! Today I want to share with you another video I’ve put together to show you what I include along with the frittata to create a delicious, healthy breakfast that is easy to make and that you will love! You can use different fruits, and…
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How to Make Quick Breakfast Frittata
Quick Breakfast Frittata I decided to share with you how I make a delicious, easy, quick breakfast frittata without having to start from scratch. This happened because one of my coaching clients told me I need to share more of myself with all of you; that is, more of what I eat to be healthy. What kind of meals helped me lose the weight and the chronic depression that plagued me for years is what she wanted to know. She also wanted to see how I make the meals. It’s hard for me to say “no” to my coaching clients and even harder to say “no” to this particular one,…
