Weight Loss
72 hour Sugar Challenge
I hope you’ve had an fabulous summer! The summer was a great time for relaxing, letting go of routines and habits. enjoying time at cottages, the warm weather and eating good food at barbeques,cocktails, ice cream, and delicious sweets. Now that we’re halfway through the month of September and revving up for fall, it is a perfect time for shifting your mindset and reducing your sugar intake. Everyone loves sugar! Our brains…
Read MoreGet The Secret to Vegetarian Proteins in this Cooking Class
Join Me During The Month of September for Cooking Classes Sugars: The Good, Bad And Ugly. The Secret To Vegetarian Proteins What To Make For Breakfast, That Is The Question!!! Is it Possible To Get Rid Of Joint Pain? September can be a busy month with Jewish holidays coming up, kids going back to school…
Read MoreHow Good Sugars Are Not Bad And Ugly With This Cooking Class
Join Me for 4 Cooking Classes during the month of September During the month of September, I’m offering cooking classes on different topics. Sugars: The Good, Bad And Ugly. The Secret To Vegetarian Proteins What To Make For Breakfast, That Is The Question!!! Is it Possible To Get Rid Of Joint Pain? They are like…
Read MoreSwap Refined Flours with Delicous Nuts, Legumes and Whole Grains for Baking and Cooking
Once I discovered that there were more choices for baking and cooking using other grains (gluten and gluten free), flowers, nuts and seeds from the traditional all-purpose white or wheat flours, it became a whole new experience creating a host of tasty dishes. I grew up on white all-purpose flour and later whole wheat was…
Read MoreExercise can be a Boon for People with Parkinson’s and Anyone!
The more I research about health, the more I learn how daily fitness is so crucial to our well being. If you think about how our bodies were designed from the time of our ancestors, we were active, moving people out of necessity foraging for food in a fight or flight state. Last week I…
Read MoreWhy Choose Organic Foods Over Conventional Foods for Brain Health
Yesterday, I went food shopping to buy my groceries for the week. I was in a rush and went to my local No Frills grocery store rather than the organic one in another neighbourhood called The Big Carrot. The costs of fresh vegetables are escalating and so are the costs for organic foods. There are…
Read MoreThree Foods To Avoid With Parkinson’s Disease
The Role of Nutrition in Parkinson’s Disease Some of you may be familiar with the long term effects of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) from having experienced it first hand with a loved one or friend or known someone whose had it. Over 7 million people worldwide have the disease, 50,000 new cases are reportedly yearly and…
Read MoreWatch This Documentary: The Brain’s Way of Healing
If you are looking for inspiration watch this documentary: The Brain’s Way of Healing I attend a weekly mediation group that uses visualization and other meditation techniques to exercise our brain plasticity. Judy, who leads the group, has devised a unique approach applying Buddhism and research by various scientists, doctors and the work of Dr.…
Read MoreThe Art of Fermentation With Sandor Katz
I am a regular fermented food eater. My Buby (grandmother) made fermented beets, a version of Borscht, which she served at every family meal and I hated it. Today I love it. You may know that I make and sell fermented vegetables in my shop. Types of fermented food can be found in almost every…
Read MoreCan Eating Carbs Prevent You From Losing Weight?
About a week ago, I had a conversation with a friend about her desperation to lose weight. She had tried cutting back on certain foods and made a number of serious attempts with dieting plans. I was telling her about a new product I was introducing called MEAL STIXS a nutritious, gluten free, low glycemic…
Read More“It Takes Guts” , a documentary on our Microbe and Weight
Watch this amazing documentary that was aired on the TV show The Nature of Things last week. Microbes_ The Hidden Reason Behind the Obesity Epidemic_ – The Nature of Things_ Science, Wildlife and Technology – CBC-TV I talk about the gut as the focus for taking care of our health. That’s what nutritionists do for…
Read MoreAching to Get Rid of Belly Fat?
I was visiting my elderly father earlier this week and the TV was tuned into The Marilyn Denis Show on CTV. I never watch these shows (because I’m working or somewhere else) but sometimes that can be interesting . That day, they were featuring Dr. Natasha Turner, a local Toronto Naturopath and one of Canada’s…
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