Are You Stress Eating?
September 17, 2019Are You Stress Eating? Here's How to Find Out Stress is a very common reason for overindulging in comfort foods. Our brain's chemical responses to certain foods lead to habit-forming behavior, and even thinking about eating induces self-rewarding brain changes. A whopping 38% of adults...
Read More >Sugar Awareness
August 17, 2019Sugar Awareness: By Any Other Name It Tastes as Sweet Sugar is a concentrated energy source that causes body chemistry changes similar to addictive substances. Naturally occurring sugars are part of healthy eating and are linked to beneficial nutrients, but free or added sugars bring no added...
Read More >Feeding Our Feelings
July 17, 2019Feeding Our Feelings: Understanding Emotional Overeating Your personality, genetics, and personal history all have an impact on your relationship with food. One way that disordered eating develops is through emotional eating. When we use food to bury or avoid thinking about our emotions, we lose touch with physical...
Read More >Elimination Diets
June 17, 2019Elimination Diets: Why Dietary Diversity Is Better for Our Bodies A medically necessary elimination diet is used as a tool to identify or treat gastrointestinal allergies, but, even with supervision, these limited diets present a medically recognized risk of nutrient deficiencies.1 Essential micro-nutrients which are present in only...
Read More >Why Diet Cycles Are More Harmful than Helpful
May 15, 2019Why Diet Cycles Are More Harmful than Helpful With new diets popping up on the horizon all the time, it’s no surprise that these passing trends can often leave people feeling unfulfilled once their diet plans have neared completion. People love quick fixes; however, diet...
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