Posts Tagged ‘nutrition’

Food is such a wonderful thing!  It gives us pleasure.  It gives us energy.  Indeed, it gives us life! With all this food it should be obvious that we would be well-nourished, but this may not be the case.  Our biggest health problems come from too much nutrition.  Energy, in the form of calories, is …

It is convenient to believe that a pill will solve all of our nutritional needs – without further thought.

In the United States more than 50% of the adult population take some form of vitamin, mineral or herb supplement regularly.

While some deficiencies can be corrected with vitamins – such as increasing your vitamin D intake with a supplement during the winter months – many fake multivitamins have been proven ineffective.  A waste of your …

An interesting thing happened at the grocery store. I was picking up ingredients for one of my favorite and incredibly tasty dishes: black bean and brown rice with seasoned venison strips.

I had just finished training some of my clients at the gym and was still wearing my fitness coaching t-shirt. But one woman took notice of my self-advertised profession and asked me for advice. She was holding a few boxes of frozen, prepared meals. These highly processed “…

Did you know that there is a dangerous device in your kitchen that was invented by the Nazis? This device was also considered illegal to own by the Russian government. I am not pulling your leg here!  If you own a microwave, then this – unfortunately –  is a fact, not fiction.

The microwave oven was invented by the Nazis during World War II in order to provide a mobile food source for their troops.  Although the German microwaves …