Nourish to Thrive Blog

One of the best ways to decrease inflammation in our body is to reduce or remove inflammatory foods.

The "Big 3" inflammatory foods that everyone can benefit from reducing or removing are:

1. Bad Fats

• Partially hydrogenated oils (aka trans-fat)
• Hydrogenated oils
• Rancid vegetable oils (vegetable...

Anti-inflammatory diets are a hot topic these days and for good reason.

As of 2014 nearly 60% of Americans had at least one chronic inflammatory health condition and 42% had more than one according to estimates by Rand Corporation.(1)

It is anticipated that diseases associated with chronic...

To truly change your relationship with food and finally achieve your health and body size goals, you need to ditch the restrictive diet mindset.

Believing that you must cut foods or food groups out, or that you need to follow a specific diet to lose weight and feel good, will lead you to...

Holidays are a time when many of us will overeat and indulge on heavier foods than we are used to eating.

This will lead many of us to experience heartburn and acid reflux.

Heartburn and acid reflux are fairly common, and most of us assume that it’s caused by having too much stomach acid.

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Food elimination diets have become very popular in recent years, and for good reason. 

Eliminating foods that our body is reacting to can bring relief from uncomfortable and debilitating symptoms caused by the damage to our digestive tract and by our immune system reacting to those...

Experts will recommend their favorite supplements and foods encouraging everyone to consume them to achieve their best life.

The problem with this is everyone has different genetics, different nutrient-depleting stressors, and different health circumstances.

One person may need more protein while...

Every day I am bombarded with conflicting nutrition advice from experts, the media, and well-meaning friends.

There are so many diets to choose from, and experts claiming a single diet is the ideal way to eat. The reality: nutrition is bio-individual. You have different genetics and life...

Exercise and managing calorie consumption are great places for us to start when we want to improve our health and lose some weight (which we are told will help us improve our health).

But these two things alone are not enough to keep our body healthy or to keep us highly functional and thriving...

Symptoms are cues from our body that something is “off” and needs our attention.

•  We might be missing important nutrients from our diet, burning through them too quickly, or not absorbing them properly.
•  One or more of our organs or body systems might be dysregulated,...

Yes, you heard me correctly!

This year aim to eat MORE dessert.

Often when we want to be healthier, and to feel more energized and confident in our clothes, we start by depriving ourselves of the things we enjoy, like dessert.

Deprivation is never sustainable. Willpower only lasts so long.

When...

Did you know that January 17th is “National Ditch Your Resolutions Day”?  Yes, January 17^th has become known as one of the most common days for people to give up on their New Year’s resolutions. Can you believe that giving up on our resolutions is so common, that it has...

Generally I don’t think of myself as a "control freak" but I certainly took on those tendencies when it came to improving my health this past year.  Why?  Because it was important to me to be the best version of myself, not only for me, but also for my kids, my husband, my...