Even when it’s blustery and freezing cold outside (like it is in New York City right now), you can still enjoy a delicious taste of sunshine—and warm up with a little spicy heat! This is a warm smoothie. It has just three real food ingredients: organic mango, fresh ginger and coconut milk! No added sugar…just […]
Your Healthy Holiday Gift Guide
The idea of giving and/or receiving the “perfect” holiday gift can evolve over time, depending on where we are in life. In my twenties, for example, receiving (or giving) health or wellness-themed gifts were the furthest thing from my mind. I remember eagerly unwrapping the first Christmas gifts from my then-boyfriend of six months. What […]
Sleep Your Way to the Top…of Your Health
Do you resist going to bed….even when you feel exhausted? Do you feel compelled to wrap up “one more” thing for work? Respond to “one more” email? Check out Instagram or Facebook “one more” time? Send “one more” text? So do 90% of American adults! According to a 2018 poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, only 10% of […]
8 Simple (and Pleasurable) Ways to De-Stress
August is hot, steamy and, historically, a slow month for most businesses. Now… is the perfect time to enjoy offlinepleasures. These days, most Americans are online every day, with over one-quarter saying they are online “almost constantly” and 43% claiming to be online “several times a day.”1 Unfortunately, being online all the time (yes, guilty […]
7 Reasons Why You’re NOT Losing Weight
I don’t know about you, but I want to rock a bikini when I’m 80! I’m not assuming that I’ll have a “perfect” body then—which, in reality, doesn’t exist as “perfect” is entirely subjective—just a body in which I feel happy as I move forward in my life. For many of us, the desire to […]
8 Eating Tips to Ease Allergy Symptoms
If you’re an allergy sufferer—with or without thyroid dysfunction, Hashimoto’s or another autoimmune condition—your immune system is under constant attack. The best defense is a good offense: focus on strengthening your immune system. This also means paying attention to your gut health since roughly 80% of your immune system resides in your digestive tract. The […]
Achoo! The Allergy-Food Connection
As a hypothyroid allergy sufferer, I dread spring. So, I have to confess that I enjoyed what proved to be a temperamental, mostly cool (even cold!), spring in New York. Then, on May 1st, the other shoe dropped. As if on cue, the temperature shot up to the high 70s (even low 80s)….and stayed there. […]
Spring Allergies? Love Your Liver
Do you dread—achoo! achoo! achoo!—spring? If so, you’re not alone! We should all love spring. It means the end of cold and snow (for the most part!), and it can be a beautiful season, with budding trees and flowers and a greening landscape. Unfortunately, the reality for some 50 million Americans who are allergy sufferers1—including […]
The One Nutrient Your Heart Loves…
Can you guess which nutrient your heart loves—and absolutely needs? If you guessed “chocolate”, you’re close…but no cigar! It’s the mineral, magnesium, of which dark chocolate (with at least 70% cacao content) contains an abundance. Why is magnesium so vital for heart health? Magnesium works synergistically with other important nutrients that support heart health, including […]
Why Self-Care is the New Health Care
Although “losing weight” is a top New Year’s resolution, why not make self-care—taking better care of yourself—a priority in 2018? After all, a lack of self-care is often what leads to weight gain in the first place. And, in an era of medical insurance with high deductibles…NOT making the time to care for yourself can […]