Before we get into hormone replacement therapy, we need to address the elephant in the room. Menopause is a normal life stage we should embrace wholeheartedly, not a disease we need to treat or a condition we should be ashamed of or dread. This is a stage of life...
Women are conditioned to fear breast cancer, and we are told the only way to survive or prevent it is to get regular mammograms and do breast self-exams. We are taught to seek lumps as if we will die if we don’t. The problem is we tend to find what we seek, and...
Eating well today takes some effort, especially if you are on a budget as most of the subsidized foods are junk food. The problem with junk food is there is very little nutrition and a lot of toxins which will increase your risk for chronic disease and obesity. How...
We live in a world where real food has been taken over by fake food. We have fake flavor, fake fats, fake sweeteners, fake meat… The problem with all these fake ingredients is that they confuse the brain and leave you wanting. If that isn’t a recipe for depression...
When we experience trauma or stressful events in life, we tend to pick up beliefs and feelings that we can hold onto without conscious awareness. Because trauma can often be the catalyst, we need to look at these beliefs from a different perspective. Sometimes,...
It’s not every day you have access to the skills and expertise of a registered dietitian with 30 years of experience in improving women’s health. Yet that’s who I had the opportunity to connect with – our community’s own, Annette Presley. As part of our It’s OKAY!...
Most of us tend to dismiss stress with, “Oh it’s nothing, I’m just stressed.” Um no, you are a raging forest fire, and if you don’t do something your house is going to burn down! Stress is serious and accounts for at least 80% of all doctor’s visits. Mineral...
Our thoughts about food can turn even healthy eating into unhealthy eating. We all have foods we love and foods we seriously dislike. We have ideas about what foods are healthy and what foods are not. We may even have a favorite diet that we think everyone else...
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