Hello friends! When I was 18 years old and headed to the Big City, I was on a direct path to change the world. I had a CLEAR vision of what I wanted to do with my life. I KNEW that my future was in health and wellness and I assumed that meant becoming a doctor. It made complete sense. I loved science, especially biology, and I got good grades. I wanted to help people get healthy and knew that the medicine offered an opportunity to have an amazing impact. Yet, by senior year of college I wasn’t so sure anymore. Suddenly I had this enormous task of tackling the…
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10 Benefits of Intermittent Fasting you cannot ignore
Hello friends! Contrary to popular belief, we don’t really need to eat as often as we do. Some diet plans suggest that we eat 5-6 times a day. This idea ends up making us eat more than we need to every day. Eating that much can have a very detrimental effect to our weight loss efforts. If you are struggling to lose weight and you follow these types of plans, you may want to read on to learn that there is a better way. See, when we eat we trigger insulin which is released into the bloodstream. Insulin is the hormone that tells our cells to take in glucose. Glucose…
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The #1 Thing You Need to Give Up to Lose Weight
Hello friends! There are so many things that make the Standard American Diet so unbelievably unhealthy. Fast food and processed food cause so much damage to the body and really affect it’s ability to function at its peak. Learn about my take on the solution to these problems HERE. However, there is one component to these foods that is really the root of many major healthy issues. I know you don’t want to hear it but the #1 culprit in weight gain and disease is…..SUGAR! Sugar is more or less the devil and is getting in the way of your weight loss success. Don’t believe me? Below are some of…
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7 Myths about plant-based eating that are keeping you from changing your life
Hello friends! So one thing I am very passionate about is plant-based eating. During my service year in Los Angeles, I consumed a lot of information about the plant-based lifestyle (not diet). I dove head first into that life style and really changed everything I was eating. I was lucky to find the documentaries that really sold me on the the amazing benefits of eating this way. My top 5 are: Forks Over Knives Hungry for Change Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead What the Health Food Matters Click HERE to learn more about my favorite plant-based documentaries. People get really sensitive when you suggest that meat and dairy could be…
