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 If you'd like to send your Mom or a favorite Mom in your life a download of my meditation and affirmations for stress management, simply press on the buy button to complete the transaction.  Include your email address and I will contact you for the email you want me to send the recordings to. 

The cost by MP3 download is only $2.00 for the meditation and affirmations and will be a great tool for helping your loved one relax. 

With obesity overtaking smoking as the #1 cause of illness in the United States, we all need to find ways to attain and keep a healthy weight level. My approach is not so much to focus on the scale and on calories, but rather to focus on quality nourishment, enjoyable movement and stress management. 

 Have you ever wondered why it makes sense to hire a health coach?

We hear a lot about whole grains and how important they are for nutrition. Unfortunately, when the only choice you make for whole grains is a commercial bread, chances are that most of the contents is refined grain, with very little complete grain in the bread.  If you want the benefits of whole grains, a much better choice is a serving of brown rice, quinoa, bulghur or couscous.   Here are 5 reasons that Quinoa is a superior grain choice:

Chronic constipation can be the bane of one’s existence. What we know today is regularity is a key ingredient of health. The body eliminates toxins and waste primarily through the skin by sweating and the colon through bowel movements. When the colon isn’t moving waste out of the body, a general feeling of lethargy and discomfort may be present.

 Though my big mission is to support you in eating healthy for all rasons, sometimes a specific ailment or condition is what leads you to that important endpoint.

Today I'm going to address some foods that will help relieve the typical pains that many describe as "getting old" pain, Let me assure you that getting older does not automaticaly mean you will have pain. Much of pain is about lifestyle and the ways we choose to eat. 

Here are 7 foods that will definitely help keep pain in check

1.  cold water fish like wild salmon

 The elite athlete needs a good portion of both quality carbohydrates and protein. This breakfast offers both nutrients and should provide both the fuel  for being on the go and the nutrients for recovery. 

Egg & Salmon Sandwich

Are you gearing up for your annual spring diet?  Here’s what I’d like you to do - Grab all your old fad diets, new quick weight loss remedies, and "amazing cure" diet books and programs - and throw them in the recycle bin!  Don’t pass them on - you know they don’t work so why give someone else the pain you’ve experienced? 

This past Monday evening my workshop theme was beautiful  hair and skin and we talked about excema and acne. What fascinates me is how little guidance anyone received from their physicians/dermatologists about the link between what you put in your mouth and what shows up on your skin! They received remedies - medications to be taken internally as well as topical creams, but that doesn't get to the cause of the problem. It's a temporary fix but the problem likely will return.    

 Ingredients: (serves 4)

1 large head escarole (7 to 8 cups, chopped)

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

3 garlic cloves