“No Calories, No Consequence” is Not True.

The World Health Organization made a new recommendation after it received enough information to prove metabolic disruption is correlated to and may also be caused by the following “zero-calorie, sugar-free” substitutes:

Monk Fruit, Stevia, Sucralose, Aspartame, Acesuflame-K, Acesulfame Potassium, Ace-K, Equal®, SPLENDA®, neotame, saccharin, Monk Fruit In The Raw®, Lakanto®, SweetLeaf® and Whole Earth®,...

You don’t need the latest innovation to extract valuable information, there's a better way!

Want to lose weight, lower blood sugar, and improve metabolic health? Don't jump on this device trend! Diet companies are betting a wearable device will provide the feedback to highlight bad choices and reinforce good choices to transform behavior. The concept is good, but the round-the-clock surveillance isn’t necessary. There’s a better, less expensive way, to get the same...

“Congressman’s Wife Died After Taking Herbal Remedy Marketed for Diabetes & Weight Loss”: the headline from CBS News and it also caught my eye when it was also reported by the NY Times. These reports made me question, “How safe are supplements?” 

Warnings Issued by the FDA

“White Mulberry Leaf” was the cause of death for the Congressman’s wife. She took it as a supplement either taken in the form of a capsule or tea. Either way, it...

Find it difficult to constantly maintain healthy habits? That’s because habit change is a skill you build continuously, through practice and by taking action. Here’s a quick tip that works to get me moving every time: Do the Opposite!

Do the Opposite

"Do the opposite" means take the opposite action from what your brain and body want to do. What you “feel-like” is the primal, auto-pilot, lazy-brain’s direction. And auto-pilot will always retreat to old...

Blood Sugar Matters for Everyone, Especially if You're Over 45  

If you’re over 45 years old, you’re even more susceptible to increased blood pressure, increased body weight, increased (bad) LDL cholesterol, pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes and more! Elevated blood sugar levels is a cause and contributor to most every one of these conditions.

Healthy foods can help lower blood sugar levels naturally to help improve these conditions to avoid progressive disease.

What's...

Resistance to healthy routines is natural and normal. Especially when it's time to go back to work or school, after enjoying summer vacation. A plan can get you started, but resistance is a reliable rebel that covertly shows up to derail even the most solid plans and routines! Learn how to identify the unsuspecting ways resistance causes interference and get tips to help stop the sabotage so you can maintain momentum with your healthy habits and routines! 

Resistance is Hidden...

The quality of the egg is determined by the life and the health of the hen. The price or the grade on the package don’t reveal what you need to know. So how do you know if the hens are healthy and happy? Look for these 3 Egg Essentials!  

 3 Egg Essentials:

#1 Pasture Raised

Pasture Raised is best because she’s outdoors hunting for her own larvae and grubs and eating the natural grass. The more nutrients they take in through their diets, the more it...

Not getting the results you want or maybe you’ve hit a plateau? It's time to make a change! When it comes to cardiovascular activity, duration, frequency and intensity are the top levers to pull. The good news is the modification is simple! 

Lower Intensity

Cardio activity is the best way to improve your metabolism. But the latest trends in cardio push most people out of the steady beneficial range. Intervals and high intensity training hit the top cardio zones and aren’t the...

Sweet potatoes have been erroneously reported as the healthier potato because the size used for comparison was a Russet that’s 52% larger in weight! How did so many trusted nutritional professionals and reliable resources get this nutrition fact so wrong? 

Sizes like small, medium and large are most familiar to the general population and easiest to visualize. The problem is the weight for each medium sample on the USDA’s website isn’t the same, see USDA images below.

Where's the Chicken? I was shocked to learn that grilled chicken in a fast-food environment of any kind, isn’t a healthy food, it’s a healthy imposter! At least 14% of the meat, isn’t chicken. And that’s not the only reason why I won’t eat it…

5 reasons why I won’t eat fast-food chicken: Fat, Fakes, Fillers, Appetite Accelerants & Added Sugar! 

#1 Fat in fast-food is synonymous with “unhealthy” because most of it is fried....