Recipes: Nutrition

Make that I ALMOST never get sick. . .Spring has arrived and everything is coming up, well, everything is coming up BROTH. It’s true. Broth is springing up all over the place. Last week I was a p...

There’s one question I hear all the time. The lead-in is always different: My daughter is going on a school camping trip. . . I’ll be away on business in Ohio for a week. . . I’m going to visit my ...

At the start of the year I made the resolution to turn a new leaf and focus on incorporating more leafy greens and veggies into my daily routine. And surprisingly, you can get downright green with ...

Recently at the Functional Nutrition Alliance (FxNA) we’ve been welcoming a good number of clients with IBD (inflammatory bowel disease) into our fold. The major types of IBD are Crohn’s disease an...

What’s all this about sugar bombs? (Besides the unmistakable fact that the Easter Bunny might have hopped over to your house yesterday and dropped off a sugar bomb filled basket…But don’t fret, I’l...

Hail summer! In my neck of the woods, school’s out for the summer, the sky is blue and I’m keeping the front door wide open so the cats and the boys (mine and his friends) can wander in and out. ...

studies of dietary patterns from around the globe have established that populations that consume more spices have the lowest incidence of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, a...

Aches. Chills. Sore throats… You too? As we move into the colder (and wetter) months, I’ve been hearing word of a nasty bug circulating many parts of the Pacific Northwest where I live, as well a...

Winter mornings are dark. As I sit in my office reflecting on the season, I actually welcome the dark before dawn and embrace the silence. Amidst the holiday lights and snow flurries, I invite you ...

When it’s cold outside, I’m tempted to kick up the heat and stay in.Even if you love the chill on your cheeks and you’re a self-proclaimed snow-bunny, you may find that there are moments, as the se...