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How to Serve the Right Kinds of Fat for a Healthier Family
This week in my Healthier Family series, I am going to talk about adding the right kinds and amounts of fat to your family diet. For the longest time, I avoided fat. I ate skinless chicken breasts and...
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Avoiding Artificial Flavour and Colour For a Healthier Family
Ever noticed the variety of colour on your dinner plate? One of my top suggestions of how to eat healthy, is to eat a rainbow of colourful foods every day. Just make sure that these colours are...
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Cutting Back on Sugar for a Healthier Family
Sugar is in just about all foods, and while we expect to find it in treats like like pop, jam and cookies, high levels also lurk in many other kitchen staples, such as cereal, nut butters, salad...
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Honey, Lemon, Garlic and Ginger: Natural Ways to Ease Cold Symptoms
As the fall leaves change colour and the temperature drops, there’s something different in the air. Germs, cold-causing viruses, and sore throat-inducing bacteria are around, ready to ruin your perfect...
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Miraculous Chicken Soup and Other Ways to Protect Your Family From the 'Flu
Influenza or ‘the flu’ is caused by a virus and includes symptoms of chills, fever, sore throat, muscle aches, headache, fatigue or weakness and coughing. Do some of those symptoms ring true for your...
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Eat More Probiotics to Avoid Stomach Bugs
Have you heard from friends or family that they’ve suffered with a recent bout of tummy flu? Once or twice a year it seems to do the rounds through school and offices. Where it starts, nobody know, but...
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Eat Your Way to a Calmer Belly
Ever had a grumble in your belly that sounds like a monster has taken up residence? Mine sometimes sound like a door creaking open and shut. It’s embarrassing to broadcast involuntary stomach rumblings...
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Divine Gluten and Sugar-Free Holiday Cookies
The holiday season brings out the baker in everyone. I’m not a baker. I cook. So when I’m ready to whip up baked goods, it takes more thought than throwing together a soup.For those of us with food...
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How to Eat Your Way to Better Focus
Focus is top of mind for me at the moment. My nine year-old daughter is finding creative writing and language work at school difficult to focus on. Could be because it’s boring and it doesn’t fill her...
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Detoxing After the Holidays: How to Cleanse from Sugar-Overload
Did you over-do the sugar over the holidays? I know I did. Once you start it’s tough to stop. Cravings for sweets seem to ramp up after bingeing at a holiday party and being surrounded by sweet treats,...
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How to Ease Into Your Cleanse to Avoid Detox Woes
After the holiday eat-a-thon, it’s tempting to go completely the other way and cleanse all that sugar, alcohol and other indulgences out of your system. But are these extremes healthy for us?First,...
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Coconut Flour: Grain-Free Baking for More Energy
I’ve been following a different kind of diet lately that doesn’t include any grains. Why would I put myself through it, you ask? As a nutritionist, I like to challenge myself so that I know how to help...
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Almond Flour: Grain-Free Baking to Boost Brain Power
Almonds have broken out of their shell and spread across the supermarket. Have you noticed how many almond milk brands there are now? I know of at least three. There is a brand of almond yogurt that...
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Kombucha Tea: Fermenting for Good Digestion
What do you think of when you read “fermented food”? Beer? Food that tastes off or fizzy when it shouldn’t be?Fermenting food is an age-old practice that preserved food when there were no fridges,...
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How to Make Your Own Yogurt (And Skip the Dairy Aisle!)
Can you guess what the most consumed fermented food is? Yogurt. Fermented from milk and live bacterial culture (like the probiotic acidophilus), yogurt is well tolerated by those sensitive to most...
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Make Your Own Butter - It's Easier Than You Think!
There are some foods that you might not even contemplate trying to make on your own, but I’m going to inspire you to give it a go anyway.Butter is found at every corner store and supermarket, so why...
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Don't Fear the Kefir: Make Your Own!
Kefir (proununced ke-fear) is a new-ish product found in the supermarket chiller cabinet near yogurt and other dairy products. It has been tucked in with butter and yogurt at most health food stores...
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DIY Fruit Gums or Roll-Ups
Who needs store-bought fruit roll-ups with their dubious origins? Making dried fruit roll up style snacks are delicious and healthy treats that will have the kids begging for more.Dried fruit including...
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DIY Flour - Get Your Pioneer On For This Simple Staple
Flour is a main ingredient in so many of the foods we eat each day, and but can also be made from different grains, seeds, nuts, legumes and even some vegetables. But not all flours are created equal....
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DIY Belly-Soothing Tea: Make Your Own Blend
I’m a tea lover. Not the usual orange pekoe type though -- that’s my British parents. Actually my dad only drinks tea. All day long. Nothing else. It must run through his veins. The Brits began their...
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