
Plant Power: Legumes
A diet that emphasizes nutrient-dense foods does so much more than provide energy, it nourishes your body and supports good overall health. There are so many countless health benefits to legumes, besides being versatile and delicious! Legumes are low in fat, contain no cholesterol and are high in folate, potassium, iron and magnesium. They are also high in fiber and protein. Some well known examples of legumes are black beans, garbanzo beans, kidney beans, lentils and green p

Making a Connection: Nutrition and Chiropractic’s
The relationship between chiropractic’s and proper nutrition is strong and many times overlooked. In unity, you are enabling your body to function like a fortress that it is, a self-healing machine when given the proper environment, essentially being the ultimate health insurance plan! The nervous system is the body’s inner computer system creating communication throughout the body. The nerves that transport these signals is located within your spinal column. If there is a ma

Retrain your Taste Buds
One of the hardest parts of eating a healthy diet is the taste of truly healthy food. Our brains have been trained to give into salt and sugar and its time to take charge and retrain your taste buds! If your accustomed to consuming sodium, sugar and refined oils on a regular basis like the majority of American's, than transforming your diet in a healthy direction is going to take some real hard work and desire to make change. There is so much processed foods and products ou

Designer Diet Fads
Paleo, Ketogenic, Atkins, The Zone: if your living in the 21st century than you have heard of at least one of these fad diets. They each have their own claims, but mainly evolve around weight loss. These types of diets include eliminating certain foods and restricting what you consume down to a numbers game. They all are high protein and low carbohydrate diets, just with different titles and though this may make you loose body fat and look more like a model on the cover of a

The Protein Hype
Protein was discovered in 1839 and is typically considered to be the most important nutrient of the three main Macronutrients: Protein, Fat and Carbohydrates. The root Greek word of Protein, Proteios means, “of main importance, “ which gave this macronutrient its rockstar status right from the start, based solely off its name! The Protein hype grew and scientific research continued to pour out data that animal based proteins were better and more utilized in the human body. Th

Supplement Overload
Are you depending on your shoe box of supplements to get you through each day? Do you have a time sheet to tell you how much and how many of over five supplements to consume but forget even why or what you are taking? Supplement junkies, THIS is for you! So many strive to reach ultimate health by consuming supplements, thinking its going to fix all of their problems or make them loose weight... yadada, but the truth: taking so many pills isn’t going to get you anywhere. Just

Officially on the road and observing the Food System
Its official, Billy and I are now on the road full time in our van, Falkor. We are driving west over the next month to do some exploring and winding down from all of the chaos we had blocking us from the lifestyle we truly wanted, a simple life. Focusing on our own balance and nutrition is very important to both of us and in order for that to be a priority that meant changing the way we were living. New England is a very fast pace way of life, we realized this the more travel

Key Factors to Long Lasting Nourishment
There is so much more to nutrition than just putting the right foods into your mouth. Long lasting nourishment is a journey and a learning experience that you yourself must go on. Here are some factors to consider: - Food logging: I know it sounds boring and like it takes up a lot of time, but this is going to be what kick starts your journey. Learning about the foods your actually eating and taking the accountability for it on paper (or in an app) really gives you a great to