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It’s 3pm. You are at your desk at work. You can hardly keep your eyes open. The day seems like it’s barely dripping by. Ahh dripping…visuals of coffee are conjured. Coffee… Yes. That will give me energy. Coffee… Ooh and maybe there’s still a donut left in the break room that the sales guy dropped off …

January is the month of New Year’s resolutions. How many of us start the new year with great intentions to lose some extra weight, improve our eating habits or better our health yet don’t follow through and are making the same resolutions the very next year? Why is it so difficult to follow-through with health-related …

If you breathe, eat, drink water or use electronics in this modern world, than you need to detoxify. We are exposed to harmful chemicals every day, even if you’re careful with the products you use. The air itself carries toxins like mercury. Even organic foods contain chemicals, hormones and pharmaceuticals that don’t break down from …

I’m a big proponent of Raw Foods Fusion. What? You may ask is that??? Raw foods fusion is like my philosophy of life and food or rather what my philosophy has or is becoming in life and in food… Everything in moderation and never get too extreme. This is actually a fairly funny philosophy for …

A couple weeks ago,   I was teaching a cooking class and had the opportunity to have a guest chef join and assist me. This of course was a frightful proposition as even though I’ve been to culinary school, managed a restaurant, catered 100+ people events, done personal cheffing and I even own my own cooking …

Is this you? Do you have a difficult time getting up in the morning? Even if you get seven or more hours of sleep, are you still tired and still dependent on coffee? Do you get lightheaded or dizzy when you stand up too fast sometimes? Around 3pm do you start feeling really tired and …

Today I am sitting at the hospital, waiting for a friend of mine who is in surgery for a spinal cord injury. As a result of having my tonsils stolen from me (which I would still like back, pleeeze), I’m a tad skeptical of surgeries, but her’s, sounds like a good idea. Without the surgery, …

At least 3 million people living in North America are gluten intolerant, with 90% not even realizing it (1). Although some dairy and gluten intolerance symptoms manifest in the digestive tract, other symptoms are neurological; affecting mood, attention span, cognitive capabilities, behaviors, and sometimes even manifesting as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD. As a …

Not Even A Crumb and the Celiac Disease Foundation are creating a series of public service announcements to raise awareness about Celiac Disease. How exciting is that! The first PSA aired in May and if you missed it, you can watch it now, it’s embedded below. Celiac disease is the ONLY autoimmune condition that we know, …

Okay, I have to admit it. I used to love, love, love Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. I couldn’t get enough. But then I got all healthy and somewhere along the way read the ingredients and they were quickly and efficiently but not deliciously eliminated from my diet: Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate, Nonfat Milk, Milk …