Crazy Sexy Gentle: How to Cleanse in 2013
January 7, 2013
Hi Sweet Friends, It’s about that time. The ole “New Year, New You” push. Like many, you may be feeling pressure to totally renovate your body, fit into smaller jeans, reverse the hands of time and grow shinier, thicker hair. I know I feel pressure to improve. It’s been awhile since I cleansed. I hear the silly voices of “should” in my mind. “Kris, you know you should clean it up a bit.” Heck I… Read More >
When Jonesing for Sugar Teaches You the Secret to Life
August 6, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Sometimes I find myself staring into the depths of a pint of Cherry Garcia at eleven o’clock at night, wondering where all the ice cream went and when I started eating it. But for all the angst a gal can feel when her spoon scrapes the bottom of the carton, it was the cookie dough ice cream that taught me the secret of life. The first thing my wildly spiraling sugar cravings taught me is… Read More >
Pregnancy, Children and Food Choices
May 9, 2012
By Guest Blogger
I remember receiving a card at my baby shower celebrating the “eating for two” shared belief in our culture. It was all about nine months of indulgence with the message: “If you’re going to be gaining weight, you might as well have some chocolate cake and ice cream to show for it.” There has been a wide range of studies showing that kids are more likely to be overweight or “sugar-holics” if their parents, particularly… Read More >
Does Your Comfort Food Really Meet Your Needs?
March 5, 2012
By Guest Blogger
Foods are strongly linked to our emotions and moods. Therefore, our day’s events can drive our eating habits. Due to our hectic lifestyles and chronic stress, many of us are turning to food to soothe, comfort and provide relief from intense feelings or low moods. We are bombarded daily by stressors, whether in our environment, workplace, family, relationships, financial or all of them. As these generally bring forth unpleasant feelings or low energy, we may… Read More >
5 Tips to Beat Your Holiday Sugar Cravings
December 21, 2011
By Guest Blogger
It’s the holiday season again, bringing festive good cheer, celebrations with friends and family and usually more delicious sweet treats than you can handle! So before we launch into the negative effects of too much sugar (and, of course, give you some healthy alternatives!), we want to give some background of the sugar addictions we have in this culture. Since the beginning of civilization, sugar has been directly linked to feelings of love, comfort, joy… Read More >
Sugar Addiction: A Nation In Need Of Rehab
October 4, 2011
By Guest Blogger
Imagine how American society would function if drug dealers pumped 150 to 175 pounds of heroin per person per year into the veins of the elderly, the middle-aged and the young alike. Legally. Well, sugar, an addictive substance that speeds along the same brain pathways as heroin, enters the food supply in those quantities. The result of this sugar surge is that more than one in three adults now has either Type 2 diabetes or… Read More >
Natural Sweetener Smack Down: Agave
August 17, 2011
By Alexandra Jamieson
Human beings are built with a taste for sweetness – it’s in our DNA. We crave sweetness because mother’s milk is sweet, and we’re programmed to crave sweet carbohydrates so the human species will survive. When we were all still living off the land, hunting and gathering in the wilderness, sweet foods were safe to eat – poisonous foods are generally bitter. In the last 200 years, humans have gotten really good at growing crops… Read More >
Do Milk and Sugar Cause Acne?
August 9, 2011
By Mark Hyman MD
It’s confirmed. Dairy products and sugar cause acne. As our sugar and dairy consumption has increased over the last 100 years, so has the number of people with acne. We now have over 17 million acne sufferers, costing our health care system $1 billion a year. Eighty to 90 percent of teenagers suffer acne to varying degrees. The pimply millions rely on infomercial products hawked by celebrities, or over-the-counter lotions, cleansers and topical remedies. Recent… Read More >
Five Ways You’re Addicted to Sugar But May Not Know It
July 21, 2011
By Guest Blogger
It’s true! Some of us were born sugar lovers and we search high and low to get our hands on the sweet stuff, while others of us unknowingly feed a hidden addiction. For most of my adult life, I was a raging sugar addict but didn’t know it. My mindless consumption of sugar manifested in a handful of sneaky ways. Check out my tips for combating the five most common ways sugar sneaks into our… Read More >
Does Sugar Feed Cancer?
December 30, 2010
By Guest Blogger
Does sugar feed cancer? Well, yes and no. Um, OK – yes. All cells use sugar – aka glucose – for their primary fuel source, so sugar does indeed feed all cells. But if you’ve ever had a PET scan, you know that before you get your scan, you get to drink a lovely shake of radioactive glucose or get an injection of a similar concoction. Cancer cells are very greedy; they like to gobble… Read More >
A Sweet Life
April 19, 2010
By Guest Blogger
Jessica Apple & husband, Mike By Jessica Apple In 2008, while pregnant with my third child, I felt unusually tired. I reasoned that taking care of my two sons and growing a third was more than my body could handle. But then I noticed something else—my exhaustion peaked just after meal times. If I ate pizza, pasta, or a bagel, not only did I feel drowsy, but I felt like I had weights attached to… Read More >
A Year Without Sugar
January 14, 2010
By Guest Blogger
I am thinking about all you sugar addicts out there when I say this: I never thought it would be possible to go without sugar. The initial goal was to test my willpower. On the cusp of the 2008 New Year, I proclaimed to my husband that I would go without sugar for a year. I secretly doubted I could get ahead of the addiction that made me eat goodies until my belly ached. The… Read More >
The Scoop: Kathy Freston’s Quantum Wellness Cleanse
July 14, 2009
By Corinne
What was your inspiration for adopting a vegan lifestyle and how has it impacted your life? I always considered myself a spiritual person, someone who wanted to live by principles that would better hone my personal evolution: kindness, compassion, alleviating suffering when I saw it. When I saw, through videos and in books, what was happening to animals as they became food for my plate, I realized I was not living my principles at all.… Read More >
