Kelli

Strong Relationships, Healthy Hormones

by Kelli

Women are especially vulnerable to accommodating lousy relationships because we’re not well trained about healthy boundaries. We often don’t learn that “no” is a complete sentence. And to add more fuel to the fire, our brain/hormone connections are more sensitive to emotional stressors.

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Cortisol Switcharoo: How Cortisol Makes You Fat and Angry, Plus 7 Practices to Rock Your Stress

by Kelli

Similar to many others who struggle with a stress-crazed life, conventional medicine had no answers for me. I went to the doctor and was told to exercise more. That was probably the worst advice a doctor could give to someone with high cortisol. What can be done about the problem of cortisol, and the shadow side of this important stress hormone? I’ve got 5 practices for you. (NOT tips, because tips are things you do once and then they fall by the wayside. Practices are something you take on more fully, and integrate into your day — ultimately becoming a habit.)

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Natural Depression and Anxiety Remedies to Help Improve Your Mood

by Kelli

On top of limiting your sugar intake and eating a diet rich in whole, unprocessed foods, there are a handful of easy to find and easy to use supplements that can be very helpful in lifting your mood any time of year. With cooler temperatures and shorter days setting in, I wanted to share some helpful ways to beat the winter blues and manage your mood naturally.

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5 More Reasons to Love Dark Chocolate

by Kelli

Alright, let’s just have some fun for a minute and reward ourselves for all the hard work we all do. Give yourself a treat, if no one else will, and indulge in a guiltless treat of dark chocolate. It might just be the ticket to a great day.

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Love Your Guts: 5 Things You Need to Know About Your Insides

by Kelli

It may surprise you to know that keeping your intestines healthy is key to your overall health. It surprised me. Fixing my gut is essentially what led to my incredible health turnaround. I believe it is your digestive system where health is either created or lost. There are 5 things you should know about your gut and how to keep it healthy.

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Finding the Best Vitamin D Supplement

by Kelli

I went on a search recently to find the best Vitamin D supplement, and I found it. This is great news, because almost all of us need to take a Vitamin D supplement.

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Antibiotics in Meat: The Prescription You Didn’t Mean to Fill

by Kelli

antibiotics in meat lead to antibiotic resistance

When I was growing up, doctors handed antibiotic prescriptions out like candy – yep, just like the lollipops they gave you for being good. I may not have come outta there with a lollipop every time, but I always had a bottle of pink Strawberry-Banana-flavored amoxicillin by the end of the day. Times have changed.

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7 Seasonal Superfoods You Should be Eating this Summer

by Kelli

We often hear about the importance of eating seasonally, like the health benefits to be gained by eating food that hasn’t been sitting in storage for a year. But since our grocery stores are so good at making their year-old inventory look fresh, you may be wondering, like me, what really is in season?

Here are 7 healthy and maybe new-to-you foods to try right now.

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Catching Up With Kelli

by Kelli

Ok, so you may have noticed I’ve been a bit absent for a while. I’m easily overwhelmed these days, so the idea of writing this post to catch you up feels daunting. But I decided I’d like to let you in on what’s been going on with me and keeping me so occupied that I just haven’t had much time for my baby (Fooduciary).

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Three Ways to Spring Clean Your Diet

by Kelli

Spring is definitely here, and summer is not far behind. As the temperatures are rising I’ve been feeling a shift in what foods I’m craving – does that happen to any of you? I’m feeling a craving for more raw than cooked foods now. Along with the rest of the Spring cleaning we do, Spring cleaning your diet is a good idea because your body’s needs change according to the season.

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Crowding sugar out

by Kelli

Your best bet to reducing the amount of sugar your children eat is to focus on adding nutritious foods, rather than on eliminating all sweets. The idea is that we don’t have to do it all perfectly.

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The Dark Side of Chocolate…Is So Good!

by Kelli

Here’s your permission to eat your chocolate alone. Not like ‘all by myself’ kind of alone, I’m just talking about eating chocolate straight up. But yes, I do it all by myself sometimes.

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GMO in the United States: Sugar Beets

by Kelli

Find out about the genetically-modified (GMO) battle over sugar beets in the United States, how it compares to GMO struggles in Australia, who’s running the show and how it’s being run.

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