Lifestyle as Medicine

Food as Medicine: Liver & Immune Support Pesto

Food as Medicine: Liver & Immune Support Pesto

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Enjoy 1 tablespoon, 2 times per day, for 3-4 days, when under heavier stress or fatigue. For therapeutic benefits throughout the year, enjoy regularly on your weekly meal plans. This pesto is excellent on eggs, stirred into soup, on top of whole grains, tossed with veggies, or simply spread on one piece of sprouted bread.

Full system support: And although I named this recipe ‘liver and immune support pesto’, as you can see from the purpose of each ingredient detailed below in the notes section, this pesto supports your whole system.

6 Tips for How to Nutritionally Survive the Holidays

6 Tips for How to Nutritionally Survive the Holidays

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Photo and cupcake decorating author: Make.Bake.Celebrate Top 6 Tips for How to Nutritionally Survive the Holidays This year can be different. The week of Thanksgiving: joyous anticipation fills the air as we all stand on the starting line of another holiday season! All social media posts and chatter with friends right now reflect this holiday [...]
This Year Focus on what to ADD not RESTRICT

This Year Focus on what to ADD not RESTRICT

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Focus on foods to ADD and enjoy alongside traditional favorites: In-season fruits like pomegranate, clementines, apples and pears Frozen fruits, like berries and sweet cherries, slightly warmed, and drizzled with cream  High-fiber flax crackers, bean dips and hummus, popcorn, and roasted chickpeas Big batches of veggie soups for quick meals or sides Here's the remarkable [...]

Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants (sounds like) Do This. Shouldn’t Need Help. Mostly Easy.

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How Pollan's famous first line creates tension within the most earnest (and health informed) individuals trying to lose weight (and those trying to support them). Still Quoted, Still an Influence This post is not to critic or review the 2008 best-selling book "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. I respect the awareness this book [...]

Product Review: What is Mirin and why is it a nutrition staple in my kitchen?

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I was first introduced to mirin in my "Whole Foods Production" cooking class during graduate school and it has been a staple in my pantry ever since. I don’t do much cooking with drinking varieties of wine (reds and white) for two reasons: one I don’t love the flavor drinking wines add to dishes, and [...]
CARE Member Question: Integrating CARE with Paleo, or Vegan, or….

CARE Member Question: Integrating CARE with Paleo, or Vegan, or….

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Integrating CARE with Paleo ... Or Vegetarian, or Flexitarian, or Vegan, or Gluten-Free CARE Teaches You How to Make the Choices that Best Fit Your Personal Lifestyle  One of the nutrition principles learned in CARE Weight Loss & Lifestyle Program is how to balance macronutrients (carbohydrates, protein, and fat) for weight loss. CARE also offers [...]
Long-term motivation vs my susceptibility to anxiety and self-medicating

Long-term motivation vs my susceptibility to anxiety and self-medicating

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I originally shared this post in the "Introductions" CARE Forum topic, visible only to current members. But these details shouldn't be excluded from my "About" page. That timeline ends in 2011. I wrote the below in March of 2019; an update will be coming soon (the life raft I mentioned below was damaged over the [...]
Why Meal Planning: Make and Compare Your Own List (plus FREE meal planning template)

Why Meal Planning: Make and Compare Your Own List (plus FREE meal planning template)

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Why Meal Planning? To Always Be Prepared for Your Next Meal Before It’s Time to Eat Last night, despite feeling like making popcorn and watching a movie, I grabbed a pen and scribbled out a quick meal plan, went into the kitchen and started to cook.  Within 10 minutes I had the music turned up a [...]