Posts tagged health
Don't Just Diet— Get Weight Management for Life

Over 70% of adult Americans are now overweight, with nearly 40% considered clinically obese. Currently accepted dietary methods, based on the idea of "calories in and calories out,"  often fail to work. Successful weight management strategies and integrative medicine emphasize the need for a nutrient-dense diet with an overall, holistic sense of health.

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Do Not Underestimate Your Underlying Immunity and Inflammation

1 out of 3 Americans is considered metabolically unhealthy, increasingly their risk of becoming ill from viral infections and suffering significant health outcomes. Many countries around the world are also dealing with the same problem with the #1 driver being the global spread of ultra-processed food and sedentary lifestyles.   

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Elimination Diet: What Is It and How to Implement It?

Millions of people struggle with their weight, digestive system, and overall health. It is incredibly frustrating to eat a meal only to suffer discomfort afterward. For many people, the root cause of the problems may be allergies, intolerance, or sensitivity to certain foods. Unfortunately, conventional medicine doctors are not well trained in nutrition and do not always see the direct correlation between food and illness.

People are starting to look to the elimination diet for help. Learn more what this is and how to implement it.

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How to Reduce Toxins After the Holiday Season

As the new year gets under way, many people are trying to make good on resolutions that included "getting healthy," but what does that mean, exactly? Getting healthy means different things for different people. The key is to find creative way to remove or reduce toxins and feel your best.

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Why Are B vitamins so Important to Pregnant Women?

B vitamins are one of the most important nutrients for everyone, especially in pregnancy. Infancy and pregnancy are the times in a person’s life when cellular metabolism is at its most intensive. Cellular mitosis changes a fertilized egg into a whole cluster of cells growing exponentially.  Eventually, raw stem cells diversify into highly specialized tissues in a developing fetus. B vitamins, in particular, are especially important for this cell diversification in order to develop healthy organs, especially the brain and nervous system.

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Alkaline Diet: Food for the Brain

An alkaline diet helps decrease creating acidic waste products, and has nothing to do with the relative alkalinity of the foods. Dairy products, for example, are alkaline in nature but inside a human create an acidic reaction. When we shift to an more alkaline diet, it is associated with a wide variety of mental and physical benefits.

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Can a Healthy Diet Prevent Eczema Flare-Ups?

Making simple shifts in how and what you consume can have a dramatic impact in improving your skin health and lessen the severity of eczema flare-ups.  To understand the impact of diet on skin health, it is important to first understand exactly what eczema is and how it can be impacted by other systems of the body.

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