Blog

Are you driven to consume sugar, refined carbohydrate, salty snack foods or caffeine, even when you are trying not to? The first step to changing your relationship to food is to understand that relationship. Uncontrollable food cravings can make changing to a healthier lifestyle daunting and depressing. Social stigmatization can make it overwhelming and feel …

You promise yourself that today will be different. You won’t gravitate toward that donut at the office, you won’t eat a piece of that birthday cake at the party, you’ll stock up on broccoli and carrot sticks to prevent needing to eat that junk. You can do it. You can do it. Just do it. …

Jolted out of my slumber. Sitting straight up I look around. I start to panic. There is a man there watching me sleep. I yell at him and try to make myself feel big. I clumsily clamor for the knife I know I have hidden under my mattress somewhere. Somewhere… Where is it? I feel …

I remember the first time I attended a gluten free vendor fair. I was aghast! I felt as though I had stepped into a nightmare or a horror flick with hoards of zombies…pasty faced, walking stiff…uncomfortable… Thankfully, fixated not on eating my brains, but on eating as much of the gluten free processed food manufacturers’ …

Ever since I was the #wellnesschat guest on Twitter to discuss soy and its implications for our health, I’ve been fielding a lot of questions. I’ve decided that it would be helpful to have one place to send everyone; instead of continuing to regurgitate the same answers and research over and over (I’m starting to …

This month is Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month. And telling it like it is… The IBS diagnosis is a load of BS. As a practitioner specializing in helping people overcome fatigue and regain a vibrant life full of energy, I work with a lot of clients that have been labeled (and accept their label) as …

Here in Colorado it is time to rejoice!!! It’s March and while March is our most snowy month, it is also when the sun finally rises high enough in the sky again for us to synthesize vitamin D into our skin. WooHoo!!! Exalt, as our “vitamin D” depleted winter that is generally from November through …

February is a month all about heart health—emotional (e.g. Valentine’s Day) as well as physical (cardiovascular disease awareness), but what is often overlooked is how passion or love for something (as opposed to someone) unrealized can so deeply affect our heart organ, our overall health and can even affect our ability to love again. My …

I can’t count the number of times someone has come to a cooking class and become appalled that a nutrition therapist, who advertises the class as healthy, eagerly promotes high fat foods. They, like so many, equate consuming fats with becoming fat. Or how many times someone has thought me a dietician, not a nutritionist …

By Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer www.kitchenclassroom4kids.com Six years ago, my son was diagnosed with autism, and for my family, the initial experience of his diagnosis through us all off balance. As parents, my husband and I were consumed with grief and shock that our young son who seemed to be developing so typically was given what we …