Sugar gets a lot of hate. Commentary can range from “trying to cut back” to comparing it to Crystal Meth and calling in an addiction. It’s publicized as a pretty black and white issue (don’t eat it) with very little grey area. If you do eat it, you’re led to...
Most of my blog content is inspired by client sessions. Obviously I don’t get super specific, but every once in awhile something will come up that I just know needs to be shared with more people than the two of us in the room. Today’s is no exception. I’ve worked...
I just recently heard the term “normative discontent”, coined in the 1980s by researchers who found widespread negative body image, particularly among women, in the United States. I really love it – I think it describes the issue perfectly, and also makes it so...
I was recently asked what I mean by Real Food, Real Life – the tagline you may have seen on my logos, business cards and website. In our current nutrition culture which pushes clean eating and “real food” diets, it might feel at odds with the anti-judgment,...
There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t hear a question about nutrition that makes me wonder…when did nutrition get so hard? We are putting butter in coffee, using pH strips to test our urine, meticulously combining foods, diligently tracking food and...
I feel like there is a huge misunderstanding of metabolism. This becomes apparent with comments expressing concern over a slow or broken metabolism, the need to monitor calories or feeling that metabolism declines with age. Since Nutrient Biochemistry was my...
