This past March, I was Activia’s guest at the incredible Gut Microbiota for Health Summit. Speakers from all over the world addressed topics relating to the microbiome and its impact on our health and wellness. I was not paid for this post. A lot of you have messaged me asking for the highlights from this Summit,…
There are a ton of food rules to help us eat ‘healthier’ and ‘less processed’ foods: shop the perimeter of the grocery store, don’t eat anything in a box, choose foods whose ingredients you can pronounce, foods with more than 5 ingredients shouldn’t be eaten…but are these ‘rules’ even helpful? When it comes to minimally…
What do you see when you look at the photo below? For the record, I took this picture of my unfinished butter tart (for the Americans/uninitiated, butter tarts are a Canadian baked good that are basically gooey pecan pie, with no pecans, in a tart) today in a coffee shop. Why am I taking…
If you spend any time on natural health websites or with alternative medicine practitioners, you may have heard of ‘leaky gut syndrome’. What does that even mean? Can your gut leak like a tap and cause all sorts of health issues like some people say it can? The term ‘leaky gut’ isn’t recognized as something…
The media can just never get enough of these ‘doing XX can kill you’ headlines, so it’s up to me to come behind them and clean up the mess. The recent research on eggs is one example, and the latest study on how skipping breakfast can cause you to die of a cardiovascular event, is…
YAY!! I love myth busting, and I haven’t done one of these posts in forever. Welcome to nutrition myths 2019! I could probably write an entire post on each of these myths, but I love putting them together in an efficient one-two-punch format. If you want to hear more about any of these, just let me…