Juicing and smoothies are both popular with the healthy eating crowd. Juicing especially has really grown in popularity over the past few years and now you can find businesses dedicated to juicing and even Walmart sells green juice. So how do juicing and smoothies compare and is one healthier than the other?
Valentine's Day is right around the corner, so I decided to make a Valentine's Day gift guide for you! This list includes some of my favorite gift ideas for the health conscious person. I think the best gifts for Valentine's Day are the ones that help you take better care of yourself and pamper yourself a bit, so that's the theme for this list. Everything here feels a little special and sometimes luxurious. If you're looking for healthy Valentine's Day gifts, you're in the right place.
HEALTHY VALENTINE'S DAY GIFTS
Baths salts
- Lavender
- Eucalyptus
- Seaweed Detox
Deep Steep Candy Mint foot creme
Numi flowering teas
Counter Culture Coffee
The World Atlas of Coffee book
Coffee tasting
New fitness gear
Fun fitness class passes
Massage
3 Valentine's Day Chocolate Recipes (apparently I decided to wear the same shirt 😂)
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Whenever I talk about not dieting, not counting calories, and not weighing and measuring your food, I often get some push back. The question is usually something along the line of: "I mean eating a healthy balanced diet and not tracking everything sounds great, but don't you NEED to track your food to make sure you eat the right amount? You can't just eat unlimited amounts of food! What's to stop you from eating more than you need? This is a great question and one I think is important for us to discuss. I think this question really shows how dieting and the diet mentality are a part of our general culture and it reveals two main ideas about food and eating.
One of the hardest parts about eating healthier can be figuring out what exactly you're going to eat. That's where this What I Eat in a Day video comes in! My hope is that this peek at what I eat as a dietitian will give you ideas and inspiration for your own healthy meals. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are all included.
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The key to eating a healthy diet is creating new habits and having a plan. But what happens when life doesn't go according to plan and gets in the way? Whether you get stuck in traffic on your way home from work or something unexpected comes up that needs your full attention right away, it's a good to have some things in place to help make healthy eating easier.
The Food Standards Agency in the UK recently launched a new campaign to educate people on the cancer risk associated with acrylamide and how to reduce exposure. Acrylamide is a naturally occurring substance and levels of it increase when starchy foods are cooked for too long at high temperatures. With this in mind, the campaign is recommending that people cook starchy foods like bread and potatoes until they are golden yellow or golden brown to reduce the amount of acrylamide that forms. So is this something to stress out about? Here are my thoughts.
It's that time of year when all of the motivation and excitement around New Year's resolutions is fading and a lot of people are quitting or giving up. If you're in that boat, but also know that you don't want to find yourself making the same resolution again next year, I've got your back! Here are a few things to think about and try so you can get back on track with your resolution and reach your goals.
Detox diets and cleanses seem to be everywhere. Whether it's the Master Cleanse, a juice cleanse, or any of the other detox diets out there, the main idea is to eliminate or severely restrict the amount of the food you eat to give your digestive system a chance to rest and help remove toxins from your body. But how does the body detox in the first place and do these detox diets and cleanses actually work? I'm sharing all of that, plus the best detox diet out there. If you've been on my channel for a while, you probably already know what it is. ;)
Just the name of the show Revenge Body sent up some red flags for me. Name aside, I looked more into the show and watched a lot of the preview clips they've posted online and I definitely have some thoughts about it. Overall, it seems to me that the show is based around a lot of messages about weight, appearance, and health that I think do more harm than good.
Food allergies are a big deal and everyone wants to know what we can do to prevent them. Some recent research has suggested that early and frequent exposure to peanuts could reduce a child's risk for developing a peanut allergy and we now have formal guidelines to go along with it! The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has released new guidelines for introducing peanuts to kids based on a child's risk. Overall, these guidelines recommend early introduction, rather than delaying introduction of peanuts.
New peanut introduction guidelines from NIAID
LaCroix seems to be everywhere and lots of people love it. This carbonated water with fun flavors has taken over many shopping cart, but you might be wondering if LaCroix is good for you. Is it healthy to drink LaCroix or is there something to worry about? The first thing I like to look at with any food is if it's real food. In this video I'm giving you my thoughts on that, as well as people using LaCroix to cut back on soda.
Healthy food has a reputation for being more expensive, which isn't necessarily true, but either way it's nice to save some money on your healthy groceries. I've been testing out a few different apps over the past few months and I'm excited to share them (and one old favorite) with you! The apps I'm talking about today include rebates, coupons, and discounts all to help you save money on your healthy groceries.
Weight loss challenges are quite popular and they seem to pop up all over the place. They can be at work, at the gym, with a group of friends, or with an online community. Unfortunately, they have one big problem. So, if you're wondering whether or not weight loss challenges are good for you or if weight loss challenges work, this video is for you.
December is almost over so I'm here to share some of my favorite things from the past month! This month I have a healthy dinner I've been loving, a couple produce items I've been eating a lot of, a fun adventure, and a new favorite TV show to tell you about. This is also my last monthly favorites video after doing them for 2 years. I explain why in the video.
What I Eat in a Day
Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown vlog
I'm trying something new here on this channel and I want to know what you think! I want to try uploading vlogs here every now and then when I go on a fun trip, go to a YouTube event, go to a food or nutrition event, etc. These would be extra videos in addition to my normal Tuesday/Thursday videos. This first one is from a trip Jasen and I took to the Historic Triangle in Virginia. We went to Colonial Williamsburg, Historic Jamestowne, Jamestown Settlement, the American Revolution Mueseum at Yorktown, Yorktown Battlefield, and Busch Gardens Christmas Town. It was a packed trip, but we had a lot of fun seeing so many historic places and listening to the Hamilton cast recording while driving between locations. :)
As a dietitian, I know people are often interested to know what I actually eat! In this What I Eat in a Day video I'm giving you a look at what I ate on a day in December. This time of year brings lots of hearty, comforting food to combat the cold weather, so that's what you'll see me eating. I try to stick with real, whole foods as the foundation of my diet and this day was no different. I hope you get some healthy meal ideas and inspiration from seeing what's on my plate!
Today I'm sharing some of my thoughts on holiday food. This time of year can be tough if you're trying to eat healthy or are working on your relationship with food and now that Christmas is less than a week away, things are at their peak. With that in mind, I wanted to give you my message about holiday eating and navigating all of the food that's coming your way.
A lot of diets and eating plans set a time to stop eating each day. Maybe it's no food after 7 PM or no food after 8 PM, but whatever it is the idea is that eating later at night is somehow bad for you gets in the way of weight loss. But we have to ask ourselves, is that really true? Is late night eating actually bad for you? And where did this idea come from anyway?
Granola is often thought of as a health food and can have a kind of health halo. The word "granola" is even used to describe people, places, and things that are healthy or "crunchy." But is granola actually as healthy as a lot of people think? Not exactly. There are a couple things about granola that can make it not so healthy, so if you love granola you definitely want to keep these in mind.
Lots of people make New Year's resolutions every year and many of those are around health and wellness. Whether it's weight loss, exercise, or eating healthier, taking care of our bodies is a popular category. Unfortunately though, a lot of these resolutions don't pan out and a lot of people have gone back to their old ways by February. So how do you make a good resolution that you can stick to and that actually works? Here are some tips to do just that.
