Category: Recipes & Healthy Eating
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Recipe: Homemade Chai Tea
Chai is a spiced black tea mixed with milk. Originally crafted in India, this spicy-sweet tea latte has become popular in coffee bars across the U.S. Whether you love chai or you’ve never had it, you’ll be happy to know that it’s easy to make at home! Ingredients (serves 4-6): 2-inch piece fresh ginger, cut…
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Recipe: Goji-Cacao Oatmeal Breakfast Bars
These delicious baked oatmeal bars are a great option for an on-the-go breakfast or snack. Oatmeal has tons of heart-healthy fiber that has been shown to lower cholesterol and aid digestion. The bars are also packed with nuts, good fats and a little natural sweetness. They’re sure to keep you full and satisfied! Dried Goji…
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Tropical Turmeric Detox Smoothie
This nutrient-packed smoothie is a play on a “lassi,” a traditional yogurt-based drink from the Indian Subcontinent. A typical lassi is made with yogurt, water, spices, and sometimes fruit. Many lassis are served as savory drinks, but sweeter, smoothie-like lassis have gained popularity in recent times. This “lassi” can be made with either mango or…
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9 Tips to Stay Light & Vibrant During the Holidays
I love the Holidays, many of us do, but I don’t love the fatigue, stress, and expanded waist lines that are all too often associated with the season of giving and receiving. This got me thinking, what nuggets of advice can I share with you? I have put together my best, simple tips for staying…
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Two Important Life Lessons I’ve Learned from My Relationship with Food
There is so much that we can learn from our relationship with food. Whether it be characterized by deprivation, indulgence, guilt, love, fear, anxiety, distraction, companionship, happiness, survival, or a combination of the above, what and how we eat provides us with a window into our tendencies and habits, and perhaps even the imbalances in…
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Love Your Salad: 5 Tips for Creating Salads You Can’t Resist (plus a few mouth-watering recipes)!
Does the thought of eating a salad ever seem like a boring chore? It doesn’t have to! Healthy eating is so much more sustainable when you fall in love with your nutritious concoctions. Check out some of our top tips for sprucing up your salad plate! 1. Make Your Own Dressing The general outline for…
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Recipe: Spaghetti Squash with Avocado Arugula Pesto
Here’s our updated take on pasta with pesto: spaghetti squash with a vitamin-rich homemade pesto containing avocado and arugula. It’s dairy-free, gluten-free, vegan, and absolutely delicious! This dish has some amazing health benefits, way out-competing traditional pasta dishes, which can be calorie dense and nutrient void. Avocados Avocados are full of healthy unsaturated fats, which are essential…
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How Do You Eat?
The way we eat is equally important as what we eat. When we are fully present for what and how we’re eating, we can derive more sustained pleasure from the eating experience, and our tendency to overeat or eat foods that do not serve us is reduced. Additionally, if we are stressed, tense, anxious and unaware when…
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The Scary Truth About the Standard American Diet & Lifestyle
Generally speaking, the standard American diet and lifestyle are inflammatory. Inflammation is linked to low energy/fatigue, acute illness and chronic disease. Thus, to address these concerns and optimize our health, we must actively reduce inflammation in the body by reducing our exposure to toxins, eating an anti-inflammatory diet, exercising, and managing stress. Inflammation is an…