Sustainable Nutrition  Blog...

Thanks to those yogurt commercials, we all understand the importance of the healthy little “bugs” for your digestive tract.

It’s so important to get probiotics from food and not just a pill. Probiotic pills are good, but food is so much more powerful for healing you from the...

Happy October! As we are in the first week, we are all starting to think about what is right around the corner...the holidays!  

With the holidays approaching us, it's a time of year where a little more nutrition support and accountability will come in handy.  Today let's...

Let's face it, the nutrients you feed your body will impact the amount of energy and vitality you will have to survive your day.

BUT, it's not easy to find healthier great tasting recipes that your family will love. Here are a few that my family loves.

It's important to always bring our focus to...

It's that time of year when many of us are looking to clean up our diets, get serious with exercise again (or start for that matter), and just get back on track after our summer time fun. 

Fall is an excellent time of year to enjoy fresh and seasonal veggies; however, as many of you will...

Have you been watching the summer Olympics?  Wow, what an inspiration it has been to enjoy the world’s greatest competitors achieving their dreams with my family .

So what can these extraordinary athletes with their triumph, achievement, strength, endurance, and...

NEWSFLASH: Symptoms such as gas, bloating, constipation, and diarrhea are NOT normal. 

These symptoms are how your body speaks to you.  If you are experiencing one or more of these symptoms, your immune system is compromised.  

Let's create a stronger immunity...

A billion dollar weight-loss industry is frustrating us more than ever as we can’t seem to keep the weight off!

The cause?.......... (as I went deeper into the last two weeks) when you just diet or do cardio to lose weight, you end up losing more muscle mass than fat.

To make things...

In Part 1 of this series, we learned how muscle mass will increase your metabolism [a good thing] and how just dieting alone or just focusing on cardio will put you on the fast track to yo-yo dieting [a bad thing]. 

If you missed Part 1, click here to watch it first.

Today, let's discover...

So the term "yo-yo dieting" was coined by Kelly Brownell at Yale University. It’s when your weight will go down like a yo-yo, but then also comes back up.

In other words, you lose the weight regain more weight lose some of that weight then regain even more weight.

Weight-loss can be...

Do you know that feeling?  The one where you have finished your healthy dinner and then thought, “Now where are my chips with queso?” or, do you ever grab a little snack in the evening and before you know it the entire bag of chips or carton of ice cream is gone only to stop...

Alcohol is always a controversial subject when it comes to your health. Is wine healthy for you? Is there a "cleaner" alcohol that has less toxin by-product?

It's a known fact that alcohol can derail any health plan because of its caloric content & effect on fat metabolism.

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Are you allowing the summer time fun to derail your health goals? 

Do you find yourself at endless family and friend gatherings this summer with not very many healthy food options? 

If you said yes to these questions, then you are not alone. Many others (including myself) struggle...