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September 4, 2018

A Nutritionist’s Back-to-School Shopping List

What’s on your back to school shopping list? New clothes? Pencils? Binders? Backpack? An iPhone? We tend to get sucked into the back-to-school hype and it can be easy to overdo it with the shopping. In reality though, our children probably don’t need most of the new clothes and school supplies we buy […]

August 15, 2018

Top 6 Tips to Get Your Kids to Eat Healthy

As hard as we try, it can be difficult to get our children to eat as healthy as we want them to. Time, budget and of course their willingness to eat healthy foods, are all hurdles parents face every day. Here are top 6 tips to get your kids to eat healthy: 1. […]

July 9, 2018

Top 5 Summer Nutrition Tips to Feel Your Best!

It’s summer! But, are you summer ready? Warmer weather and longer days are here, but so are summer clothes. In the summer we show more skin and as the layers come off, the insecurities come out. It could be extra weight, cellulite or varicose veins. We all have parts of our body that […]

May 15, 2018

The Microbiome and the Brain: The Gut-Brain Connection

Ever had a ‘gut feeling?’ That pit at the bottom of your stomach, where you just know something isn’t right, even before your brain has figured out why. This is what we call our intuition, or ‘listening to our gut.’ We have always intuitively known that our gut is like our second brain […]