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How Stress Affects Your Digestive System…and What You can do About it for a Healthy Holiday

Photo by Ebby I’m way too late to offer you any suggestions for healthy real food recipes for your holiday celebrations…that is, unless you’re totally unprepared, which could cause you to be stressed out, which could, as it turns out, negatively impact your digestive health. Four days is plenty of time, fortunately, to practice some [...]

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Five Healthy Snacks You’ll Never See In a Vending Machine

Five Healthy Snacks You’ll Never See In a Vending Machine

Does this sound familiar – it’s late afternoon, you’re beat but there’s tons still to do. You can’t nap because if you do either your boss will fire you or your family will, so the only option to boost energy reserves is to eat. And what you really want to eat are the kettle chips [...]

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4 Take-Aways on Living from Doing a Cleanse

Work keeps me on the road a good bit of the year and while it is my intention to eat well when traveling, that intent does not always get met (cue me trying New Hampshire’s best burger on a recent journey). I saw a chunk of stationary time creep up in May and encouraged my [...]

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8 Tips for Really Living While Losing Weight

8 Tips for Really Living While Losing Weight

When I first started making a conscious effort to lose weight, I had a really hard time not letting it take over my life. I’d find myself starting to dread social occasions because of the inevitable weight loss obstacles that would present themselves. I’d turn down dinner or happy hours out with friends in favor [...]

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5 Steps to Really Living

Photo by The Photomaton   1. Do, according to your values. What you actually do every day is important. That may be for work, or outside of work.  What matters is that your actions are aligned with your values — whatever they may be. In my previous career, I spent much of my time working [...]

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