Asian Flavors Dressing This dressing is a wonderful addition to any salad or bowl or you can use it as a marinade for shrimp, pork, or poultry! Yum! Once you discover how easy it is to make your own, you will never buy store bought again! When you use it in a bowl, you can combine tons of veggies for a flavorful and high antioxidant lunch option! Ingredients 1 Tbsp Fresh Lime Juice 1/4 cup Olive Oil 1/4 cup Soy Sauce 2 Tbsp Sesame Oil 1 Tbsp Maple Syrup 1…
Pomegranate Yogurt Parfait These pomegranate yogurt parfaits are so wonderful for a snack or for breakfast! Here is a helpful tip: Make the crumble ahead of time and use it all week long! I like to store the right portions in a mini muffin tin in my refrigerator. Storing the crumble in the refrigerator helps keep the healthy fats fresh! Nutrition benefits: a daily dose of probiotics can help keep your gut in tip top shape! This parfait has wonderful antioxidants in the pomegranates to help you reduce inflammation and…
Easy Summer Citrus Dressing Making your own salad dressing is actually very easy and much healthier because it eliminates many of the preservatives found in store bought dressing! This is one of my favorites! Citrus fruits have so many great benefits! They are loaded with vitamin C and antioxidants to help you fight chronic inflammation and chronic disease. We know that eating more whole foods, especially vegetables can work wonders for your health. Each color of vegetable has different nutrients, antioxidants, and phytochemicals that boost your immune system and help…
What is happening? COVID-19 is spreading fast. As I am writing this, over 140,000 people have died and there are over 2 million cases worldwide. Everyone is wondering, “what is happening?” Besides wondering about daily life, and how in the world am I going to teach both of my children, and work, and keep my house clean, and cook meals…??? I am also wondering, how can I reduce my risk of severe illness or even death from this deadly virus? What are some easy (because let’s be real, I don’t…
What are toxins? Toxins include everything that our bodies don’t need that can be harmful if accumulated. They are actually made by the body through metabolism: lactic acid, urea or other waste products. They also come from outside the body and can include pesticides, mercury, lead, pollution, chemicals in tobacco, drugs, or alcohol. Toxins can accumulate in our bodies in fat, muscle, and bones. How does our body naturally detox? Our bodies are constantly detoxing naturally. It is the process by which these toxins are removed from our bodies through…
Lime Coconut Shrimp and Black Rice This amazing Lime-Coconut Shrimp gets an super food boost when you use black rice. With a hint of the tropics you can make this slightly more spicy if you decide to add some red pepper. This recipe is easy, delicious and full of nutrients! Black rice contains more fiber and more protein than brown rice. It also gives you some great antioxidants! These antioxidants help to protect your cells from damage and are linked to lower risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other…
A Magic Pill Many of us are always looking for something new that will “fix” all of our health issues. Whether it is an ache or pain or a chronic disease like heart disease or diabetes. Or maybe, you have tried every weight loss pill on the planet, and you hope the next one will be the one that actually works. The truth is that there really isn’t a magic pill. Being healthy takes some work and some discipline. However, we do have some nutrients that may be good “helpers”…
More Sides Please! I had a request this week from a client for some more ideas for side dishes. This request really got me thinking and wanting to do my own side dishes with a little more flare this week. Today I decided to make my kale into something different and it ended up being truly amazing! There are a couple of tricks to this. 1. Make sure you bake them at a high temperature. 2. The amount of time you bake them for is very important as you don’t…
I had the honor last night to speak for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Cancer Survivorship Seminar. We had some other amazing speakers last night also including Dr. Arana Yi, Anastasia Estocin, and Kathryn Fearnside. It was a wonderful evening of good food and fellowship with fellow survivors. A special thank you to the LLS for organizing this wonderful event! http://www.lls.org/who-we-are/about Healthy Lifestyle My portion of the seminar was of course on good nutrition both during chemotherapy and also after chemotherapy in the context of improving quality of life and length…
