#RefindingFood
IT’S TIME TO CHANGE HOW WE SPEAK AND THINK ABOUT FOOD, FARMING, HEALTH, AND SUSTAINABILITY.
How to Tell if You Really Have Food Allergies or Sensitivities
A few years ago, I was diagnosed with Grave’s Disease (hyperthyroidism); the toll it was taking on my health was pretty dramatic. I went from an energetic, outgoing, outdoors all the time girl to someone that was lethargic and tired from a constantly racing heart. I...
Do We Really Need to Take So Many Supplements?
In this episode of Love Food, Love Yourself, I take a look at if you really need to take supplements. The long story short: There is a time and place for supplements, but you probably don’t need to take as many as you currently do. There are vitamins and minerals...
Plant-Based Burgers Vs. Beef Burgers: What’s Healthier?
In the past year, I’ve watched the conversations around real meat and plant-based meat alternatives become one of the most talked about food trends of the year. True to media hype and Silicon Valley chatter, the headlines and the venture capital thrown at its...
How to Understand the 11 Most Used Labels on Meat, Fish & Poultry
In the 1950s, a trip to the grocery store was simple. You could buy milk, eggs and meat. Fast forward seventy years later, the simple trip is anything but that. With thousands of choices, consumers are barraged with cleverly crafted marketing statements to appeal to...
Why Google Needs to Be a Part of Your Marketing Strategy
Learn why Google needs to be a part of your marketing strategy; learn how SEO, SEM and Google My Business can boost your sales This month, I worked with specialty food marketing expert Allison Ball on her Food Wiz Biz podcast to discuss making Google a part of a food...
Evaluating the Effects of Sugar, Alcohol, and Caffeine on Your Body
Food is something that I have a love affair with. When I made the decision to develop a better relationship with it and understand about how truly impacts my body, I never knew just how far it would go. What I thought would be a simple three-month, self-guided...
How to Fix Your Broken Relationship with Food
In my last blog post, I talked about how women's relationship with food became so fragmented and broken, especially for multi-ethnic women over 40, like myself. In this post, we’re going to go through a series of questions and exercises that can help begin to heal...
How Your Relationship with Food Became So Broken
It’s 2020, and we, as women, we’re taking our health into our own hands. We’re trying to make more informed decisions; we’re ditching healthcare for self-care, we’re trading in prescription drugs for CBD. When it comes to our food we’re eating...
How I Fell in Love with Food & Health
Did you know that every superhero has an origin story? You know, the story of who they are, where they began, and how they became who they are. As I started writing Love Food, Love Yourself, one of my editors told said to me: This book is going to totally suck unless...