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I’ve been preaching a lot about self-care lately. After all, practicing self-care has helped me keep my sanity more than once. Though I am relatively new to the self-care game, I’ve managed to pick up a few tricks along the way. When I started practicing self-care more regularly, I realized it wasn’t as glamorous …
Isn’t Fat Bad? Do you remember all those times you were told low-fat is best? Or that you need to buy the low-fat yogurt or reduced fat peanut butter for your health. For decades we’ve been told we must adhere to a low-fat diet in order to be healthy. After all, healthy fats or not, …
Self Care Refresh Did you have a chance to check out our article Wellness: Using Self Care to Nourish Beyond Food? In our article last week, we chatted a bit about wellness and self-care. One of the main take-aways was realizing that wellness is multi-dimensional, seven dimensions more specifically. Here I refer to the dimensions …
By: Stephanie Wagner, RDN, LDN Most people assume that eating right and moving more is their ticket to wellness. If you eat all your fruits and veggies, maintain a healthy weight, and build up your fitness, you will be well. All these things provide the structure we need to build our wellness. Self Care …
Welcome back! Today’s post, Inflammation Fighting Foods, is an expansion on our inflammation series. Did you catch our first post – Fighting Inflammation 101? Here I shared the basics behind inflammation and some of the things influencing inflammation in the body. In short, inflammation is the immune system’s reaction to foreign objects. This could be environmental pollutants, …
Fighting Inflammation 101 By: Stephanie Wagner RDN, LDN What is inflammation? You can think of inflammation as a natural body function. We have all experienced inflammation to some extent. Inflammation is the body’s natural response to harm. Things like stress, illness, injury, and our environment can trigger inflammation on a daily basis. Without an inflammatory …