Build Strength to Improve Running Efficiency
August 6, 2009
By Brendan Brazier
A few decades ago endurance athletes were encouraged to avoid “gym training” for fear that they would develop heavy, bulky muscles. The reasoning was: extra mass without function will inhibit endurance performance. This makes sense. However, the reason “gym training” was adamantly shunned by the endurance culture was primarily due to it being lumped together with the body building culture. Of course the main reason bodybuilders lift weights is to build bulk. They also weight… Read More >
Our Family’s Journey with Autism
July 30, 2009
By Guest Blogger
By Tracy Fox When my youngest son Ethan turned 18 months old, I told my husband Charlie, we’re going to have a problem. I had just called the pediatrician to make Ethan’s 18 month checkup appointment, and in my gut, I knew that something was wrong. I didn’t know exactly what, but having a 3 year old son Ben helped me see what Ethan should and shouldn’t be doing. And at that moment, I saw,… Read More >
Finding the Right Nutritionist for You
July 15, 2009
By Stefanie Sacks
I am now the proud mother of two young boys. Jack is almost four years old and Hunter is 9 months. After Jack was born I went through a major adjustment period, as do all new moms. However, after Hunter’s birth (that being NOW), I am finding this need to redefine myself both personally and professionally. Many many years ago (like 25), I wondered why the doctors I visited (all too frequently) for my asthma… Read More >
Nutritional Microscopy
June 24, 2009
By Denise Mari
Since my childhood, life-altering circumstances would lead me to health and a healing vegan diet. I experienced the death of my little sister to leukemia, followed by the loss of my mother of the same disease. During this time, I stopped eating chicken and other meats and slowly gravitated towards a vegetarian lifestyle. By my twenties, I sought out the vegan raw food diet as a conduit to health and sustainability. When a Soul has… Read More >
How to Navigate the Grocery Store
May 26, 2009
By Stefanie Sacks
It is not often that I find time to read. Typically I put books, magazines and newsletters in a pile and throw a few in my bag wherever I go thinking that I may catch a moment to read while waiting for one son while at a swim lesson, while the little one naps or perhaps at a red light! So, excuse me if you have all heard about this before me, but I recently… Read More >
Shedding Some Light On Dairy
April 8, 2009
By Lilli Link, MD
The second most frequent question I hear when I tell someone I eat a primarily raw vegan diet or suggest one of my patients try it is, “Don’t you need milk for your bones?” If you don’t want to read all the way through the blog to get the answer, I’ll give it away right now: No! Why would someone choose to stay away from dairy when ice cream and cheese taste so good and… Read More >
Strong Healthy Bones for Life!
March 18, 2009
By Joel Fuhrman MD
In the last 30 years we have been led to believe that drugs are the answer for all of our ailments. The reality is our diet and lifestyle better determines our overall health and longevity, not drugs. It is no different for osteoporosis. Exercise and proper nutrition are more effective than drugs, and the drugs commonly prescribed for osteoporosis have potentially serious side effects. Millions of women have been falsely convinced that calcium intake is… Read More >
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
March 17, 2009
By Guest Blogger
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and mass production hybridization are terms and concepts that health conscious consumers are generally becoming more aware of. And with that awareness comes the realization that what these terms and concepts represent are the moral, ethical and physical decay of humanity at a core foundational level. GMOs are created when gene blueprints that naturally exist within one species of plant or animal are inserted into another with the intent to achieve… Read More >
Protein: Quality, Not Quantity Is Paramount
March 5, 2009
By Brendan Brazier
Properly balanced plant-based protein can offer several advantages over more traditional animal-based options. I discovered this along the way when I was searching for a performance advantage. At the age of 15 I made the concerted decision that I wanted to race Ironman triathlons professionally. Aware that staking the odds of making this happen in my favor would rely heavily upon a sound nutritional strategy, I began to search for one. Going somewhat against the… Read More >
Eat Your Vegetables!
March 4, 2009
By Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Before introducing our super duper guest blogger today, I want to give a shout out to the Goddess Group fasters! xo, Kris “If we don’t have time to be sick, then we have to make time to be healthy.” ~Colleen Patrick-Goudreau If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard a thousand times: “Eat Your Vegetables!” From the day we moved onto solid foods until we moved out of the house, we heard this culinary command at… Read More >
The Tide is a Turnin’
February 23, 2009
By Guest Blogger
A history of cancer in my family is what motivated me to become a nutritionist. I’ve always been a veggie lover and I banished meat from my diet as a teen, but before I went off to college to study nutrition science, my munchies-o-choice also included plenty of root beer and red licorice. Back then (15 years ago) the emphasis was on fat, nutrition’s public enemy #1. Fat free, chemical filled, sugar laden foods with… Read More >
Conscious Eating, Okay, But Where (On Earth) Do You Get Your Protein?
February 3, 2009
By Kathy Freston
When I tell people that I’m a vegan, the most popular question, by far, inevitably follows: “But, how do you get enough protein?” There it is again, I think, the meat industry’s most potent weapon against vegetarianism–the protein myth. And it is just that–a myth. In fact, humans need only 10 percent of the calories we consume to be from protein. Athletes and pregnant women need a little more, but if you’re eating enough calories… Read More >
Nutrition Q & A
October 16, 2007
Thanks for all your great questions. Remember, I am not a doctor or a scientist but I am a patient and a survivor and today I feel great! I still have canSer but the laundry list of other ailments is GONE. If you have concerns check with your doctor or, better yet, a nutritionist or naturopath. Don’t expect your surgeon to know all the latest stats on your chow. In fact, sadly, many doctors believe… Read More >
