Recipes

Nutrition 4 min read

Brussels sprouts

I’m in shock. I arrived at my parents house for the Thanksgiving holiday last night and my mother greeted me with a folder filled with her chosen holiday recipes ~ clippings from magazines and prin...

By Andrea Nakayama
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Nutrition 3 min read

Broth

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...

By Andrea Nakayama
Nutrition 3 min read

Breakfast on-the-go & on-the-road

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 ...

By Andrea Nakayama
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Nutrition 3 min read

Autumn gingered stew

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...

By Andrea Nakayama
Recipes 2 min read

An eggless omelette?

I can’t eat eggs. It’s a pity since they’re the near perfect food! But the thing is, I’m not alone. So many people just can’t tolerate eggs, or for other reasons, choose not to eat them. For us,...

By Andrea Nakayama
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Nutrition 5 min read

After the sugar bomb (tame the red hot flames)

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...

By Andrea Nakayama
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Nutrition 4 min read

A surprising source of summer protein inside!

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. ...

By Andrea Nakayama
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Nutrition 6 min read

A spicy reunion

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...

By Andrea Nakayama
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Nutrition 3 min read

A simple stew on the stove

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...

By Andrea Nakayama