January 19th, 2009
The whole point of my cleanse last week wasn’t to detox and then pig out on loads of bad food. It was about a kick-start to consistently healthy eating all year long — a great way to kick the sugar, dairy and wheat habit that slowly crept up on me at the end of last year
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January 18th, 2009
I don’t know about you but I spend more time than I’d like doing instead of simply being.
By doing I mean I’m consistently busy seeing clients, working on my business, writing, spending time with family and friends, and the many others tasks that make up life. Needless to say I love it, but sometimes even I need
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January 16th, 2009
I’m on Day 5 of my raw food cleanse and chugging along beautifully. As I’ve been telling you, I decided to go the raw food route for the cleanse, made exponentially easier by going to my friend Glen’s café to pick up the food.
But there are numerous ways to do a cleanse and reap the
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January 15th, 2009
I’ll spare you the graphic details, but let’s just say that things have been a bit “stopped up” during my cleanse. Do you know it’s not uncommon to suffer from constipation when you’re doing a cleanse? Yup, trust me, it sure is. Even though you might think it’s just the opposite.
So I had a much
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January 14th, 2009
In Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of India, my constitution type is classic Vata. By nature, Vata people tend to be cold, thin and dry (as in dry skin, etc.). So I always thought that a raw food diet would just make me more cold –no hot soup and cooked food just seemed like a stretch
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January 13th, 2009
Last week I got an email from my super cool friend Glen Coehlo who owns a raw food cafe, Catch a Healthy Habit, in the town next to me. He was facilitating a quarterly raw foods cleanse and wanted to know if I’d like to join the group. Here’s how it works: he prepares the raw juices
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May 2nd, 2008
You may recall that last week I posted about the benefits of doing a detox. We take in so many toxins on a daily basis through our food and environment which builds up in our cells. Over time we can become sluggish, have less energy and our internal systems become congested – the liver, kidneys
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