Category: Food as Medicine
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Chia Breakfast Pudding with Purple Rice
Chia and Purple Rice Breakfast Pudding with Berries I am very excited to share this Chia Breakfast Pudding with Purple Rice recipe, because it really helped me break my breakfast rut and is perfect for summer. It takes so little active time to prepare at night, then no time at all in the morning to […]
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Next Week’s Meal Plan Menu ~ Healthy Meal Plans
Healthy meal plans are Eat Happy Meal Plan’s specialty! Not healthy in the low-cal, low-fat, rabbit-food kind of way. Rather, in the – no one has adulterated these ingredients to strip the awesome nutrients from them – kind of way. Just look at that list of amazing produce that’s worked into the week […]
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Gluten-Free Diet Lowers Type I Diabetes in Mice
Both celiac disease and type I diabetes run in my family, so this study about how a gluten-free diet reduced incidences of type I diabetes in mice is particularly interesting. For years researchers and holistically-oriented health care practitioners have been pointing out a link between both dairy and gluten consumption and an increase in autoimmune […]
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This week’s Eat Happy Meal Plan ~ Healthy Meal Plans ~ May 11, 2014
Eat Happy Meal Plan Shopping List May 11 2014 Have you thought about leveraging healthy meal plans to improve your health and make your life easier? If you are feeling confused about what to eat, or how or what to cook to get it all in, Eat Happy Meal Plan can be your lifesaver. After working with clients […]
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This Week’s Eat Happy Meal Plan Menu ~ Healthy Meal Plans
Snapshot of Eat Happy Meal Plan Shopping List May 5, 2014 Have you thought about leveraging healthy meal plans to improve your health and make your life easier? If you are feeling confused about what to eat, or how or what to cook to get it all in, Eat Happy Meal Plan can be your lifesaver. […]
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Eliminate Sugar Cravings with Bitter Foods
Dandelion Greens with Wehani Rice, image permissions Oftentimes people try to eliminate sugar cravings by increasing their consumption of naturally sweet foods, such as fruit, dates, and natural sweeteners such as honey and maple syrup. While these foods are certainly better choices than refined sugar, I find that this switch alone isn’t effective at eliminating the […]
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Does Sugar Make You Sick?
Sugar in various forms Will your intake of sugar make you sick? A new book, “Year of No Sugar: A Memoir”, was written after the author watched a popular video discussing how devastating sugar is to the body. As a result the author devoted an entire year to abstaining from eating processed sugar in nearly any […]
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Roasted Pork Tenderloin and Pineapple with Barbecue Glaze
Roasted Pork Tenderloin and Pineapple with Barbecue Glaze I just made this Roasted Pork Tenderloin and Pineapple with Barbecue Glaze last week, and I already want to make it again. It went quickly in my house – I think my husband took care of the leftovers before I had a chance to. I post a […]
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New Study Shows Broccoli and Kale Can Lower Inflammation
A new study has put some specifics around how broccoli and kale can lower inflammation in the body. Check out any good anti-inflammatory food pyramid and you’ll see that vegetables make up the base, meaning they’re the foundations of an anti-inflammatory diet. Yet there aren’t a ton of scientific studies demonstrating just how vegetables actually […]
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Whole Foods Cleanse: Results are IN!
As you may recall I ran my first-ever 12 Day Whole Foods Cleanse and Detox about a month ago. I was so excited to offer this program and expected participants to have great results. After looking at the final survey responses….I am thrilled to report that results were as positive as I had hoped. On […]