March 2016 - Helping Bodies Heal

Post Archive: March, 2016

Gluten: the hidden ingredient

So you’re trying to go gluten-free and you’ve eliminated the bread, white rice and pasta from your kitchen cabinet.  You’re all good – right?  Well sadly, probably not!  As it turns out, gluten is more pervasive than you probably imagined – it’s in EVERYTHING! I’m going to give you a list of places to check for gluten inside your cabinets…

Let’s get inside your kitchen – together!

I say it all the time – healthy eating does not have to be bland, boring or time consuming.  Now, I can prove it to you in your own kitchen! There’s one thing I know for sure about transitioning to a healthier lifestyle — it starts in the kitchen.  You simply CANNOT get healthy eating out – even at “good”…

Snack away on these…Matcha Bliss Balls

If I haven’t mentioned this to you before, let me set the record straight – I love to eat AND I eat a lot! I’ve just learned to channel those activities in a more healthful way.  No more toasty french baguette with melted gorgonzola cheese and a drizzle of honey as my daily snack; hello instead to my wonderfully crisp…

Toxins in our seafood – what you need to know to stay safe

I can be a skeptic about somethings and when it comes to seafood I’ve held the belief that farm-raised seafood was probably not a good choice.  Why?  Because I have little faith that for-profit farm fisheries have my health on their list of concerns.  They are there to sell their products to anyone that will buy it and will probably…