You know that eating lots of carbs, sugar, and fast food can make your skin look dull and puffy. And you’ve probably heard that fruits and vegetables can make it look healthy, even glowing. But have you ever experienced that glow? And what foods might help you achieve it? And, [continue reading]
5 Tips for Eating Healthy on the Go
If you’re trying to live a calmer and healthier life this year, you’ve undoubtedly run into this paradox – the more time and effort you devote to one aspect of staying calm, being healthy, or feeling sexy, the less time you have to devote to other aspects (or so it [continue reading]
15 Simple Ways to Eat Healthy and Improve Your Family’s Diet
If you’ve been looking for ways to eat healthy and help your family move toward a healthier diet, now is the perfect time to begin. The weather is warmer, fruits and vegetables are plentiful, and it just feels like a good time to eat less junk and more real, whole foods. [continue reading]
Healthy Eating 101, Part 4 – Let’s Get Started!
OK, it’s time. If you’ve stuck with me through the first 3 parts of Healthy Eating 101 – organization and planning, bad news about processed food, and good news about real food – you’re probably giving serious thought to changing the way you and your family eat. (Includes affiliate links) Wonderful! [continue reading]
Healthy Eating 101, Part 3 – 4 Reasons to Eat Real Food
You know that you’re supposed to eat real food, but what exactly is it? I’m sure there’s a formal definition somewhere, but here’s my definition – real food is the food our great grandparents ate. It’s the food everyone ate, back when food came from farms, not factories. Basically, it’s [continue reading]
Healthy Eating 101, Part 2 – Why You Should Eat Less Processed Food
When I started thinking about this series of posts, Healthy Eating 101, I didn’t intend to talk much about processed foods. I wanted to keep the series positive and to emphasize simple changes we can make to improve what we eat. But then the New York Times Magazine published an [continue reading]