Last week I was interviewed on Trudy Thomas’ radio show, “Living with HOPE,” on the Body Mind & Spirit network. Trudy focuses on issues facing the chronically ill and how they can face them with hope rather than despair. We discussed how I faced my own health challenges by focusing on diet and nutrition, and […]
Category: food sensitivities
Why You Can’t Always Believe What It Says On the Box When It Comes To Food
Food marketing follows trends as corporate marketers purposefully use hot buzzwords to describe all kinds of food products, whether or not they are true in relation to that item. Joyce Slaton posted a fabulous overview of trendy food marketing words over the past 50 years or so along with a witty explanations of what these […]
MSG Sensitivities and Quick Slaw Recipes
Recently, the Rocky Mountain MS Center included a few of my quick and easy summer slaw recipes in their e-newsletter (scroll down to check out these delicious recipes!). Shortly after the newsletter went out, I received this feedback from a reader: I noticed your Ramen coleslaw recipe uses the Ramen noodle spice package as an […]
What’s an ND?
You may have been wondering why my posts have become so sporadic of late, so I thought I’d share the news that I am now a fully-fledged Naturopathic Doctor (ND). These last 6 months have been a major push to complete my degree from Trinity School of Natural Health, but after several years of diligent […]
Gluten-free Chocolate Cupcakes
When I opened my second-grader’s backpack to insert his lunchbox on Monday morning, I noticed a flyer requesting home-baked goods for the bake sale Thursday night. A-ha! An opportunity to try out one of Elana Amsterdam’s recipes from her brand new cookbook, Gluten-Free Cupcakes: 50 Irresistable Recipes Made with Almond and Coconut Flour! I spied […]
