Benefit of Grass Fed, Organic Meat? Part 1

A topic that always comes up in my house is grass fed, organic meat vs. conventional meat. I can say honestly that I used to not pay attention to the difference. It wasn’t until I started on my elimination diet and started reading more and more about grass fed meat that I really started to …

Tis The Season: 13 Ways To Enjoy The Holidays Without Getting Stressed Out!

                    This post originally appeared as a guest post on Painfully Optimistic! Ross, from Painfully Optimistic, asked me to write a guest post for his blog. He’s a wonderful CRPS advocate who is living a great life, despite chronic pain. Make sure to check out his …

Am I Weird?

Happy Day After Christmas!!!!!! I hope Santa brought you everything you wanted … and more 🙂 During Christmas activities, Christmas movies came up a lot. Since Halloween my tv had been permanently set to hallmark and lifetime (with Up and LMN thrown in the mix every so often), watching cheese Christmas movies. The more cheesy …

Do You Know What Is In Your Food?

Food additives are a real problem in our society. There are SO many more children born these days with food allergies that are directly linked to different additives and chemicals in our food. We as Americans need to OPEN OUR EYES and learn the REAL truth! First, the truth about food additives:   To make …

DIY Anti-Inflammatory/Food Allergy Advent Calendar

I love everything Christmas. Christmas lights. Christmas carols. Christmas socks. And I most definitely love Advent Calendars. The ones with the chocolate, obviously. This year I knew I wasn’t going to find a calendar that had chocolate in it that I could eat SO I decided to make one myself. And let me tell you, …

WEGO Health Activist Awards 2014 Partner!

I wanted to take a moment today to let you know that I have partnered with WEGO Health to share their Fourth Annual WEGO Health Activist Awards. WEGO Health is an online network composed of Health Activists – leaders and influencers within the online health community – and they’ve put together this program to recognize and …

Chew On This: An Anti Inflammatory Thanksgiving

Last Thanksgiving I made a great dinner… well I thought I made a great dinner. (Want to see over 101 Holiday recipes? Check out this post here!) I had gluten-free stuffing, gluten-free gravy, steamed veggies, turkey and dairy free/gluten-free/refined sugar-free pumpkin pie. The stuffing was GROSS, but everything else was good. The pumpkin pie, if I do …

The Secret Side of Food: How To Heal Yourself In The Kitchen

New Year’s is around the corner and let me guess. . .  next year you want to exercise more and lose weight? Was I close? According to statistic brain, the number 1 2014 new years resolution was to lose weight. 39% people ACHIEVE their resolution, with only 14% achieving their resolution if you’re over 50. I know that …

Compassion, Mind, Body & Healthcare

This is the second post in a series of Dr. Siegel posts regarding his keynote speech and master class I attended at Medx. You can read the first Dr Siegel post here! I’ve discussed numerous times with other patients how important a connection with your doctor is. Unfortunately, the health care model we have today …