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4th of July: 4 Healthy Food Ideas

What do you think of when you think of the 4th of July? What kind of entertainment and food ideas come to mind? BBQ, beers, beach? My guess is that ‘healthy’ would not feature in your description of how you choose to celebrate America’s Independence Day. However you decide to celebrate the day – whether…

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Béchamel Sauce – a Gloriously Gluten-free version

Béchamel Sauce, also known as white sauce, is traditionally made with milk, butter, flour and other ingredients.  Béchamel Sauce is known as one of the ‘mother sauces’ in classical cuisine – it is used to make lasagne, moussaka, creamy mushroom sauce and all kinds of other fun dishes. Having said that, don’t you think it’s a…

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Introducing Michael Pollan and Five Fun Food Rules

I recently had the pleasure of listening to Michael Pollan speak at the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Annual Conference. (In case you missed our blog post about this awesome conference, you can read it here : https://imuaortho.com/blog/functional-perspectives-on-food-and-nutrition/) If you’re a fan of health and wellness documentaries you’ll recognise Michael Pollan for his distinctive voice and his frank commentary…

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Creative Cooking meets Creamy Broccoli Soup

My friend and I were looking for a healthful diary-free, gluten-free broccoli soup that was creamy enough to delight our senses and our taste-buds, sans the diary and gluten. So, off we went, hunting the web and soon found just what we needed at one of my favourite blogs – glutenfreegoddess. Only problem was – I’m…

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STRESS-BUSTERS

Most of us are familiar with the damaging effects of stress to the physical body and to our emotional health. We’ve read the articles, we’ve heard the stories and, if we’re honest, we’ve experienced a good deal of it ourselves. Stress can be toxic; increasing the risk of all chronic disease and reducing our quality…

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Functional Perspectives on Food and Nutrition

Dr Gesik and I recently returned from San Francisco, where we attended the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Annual International Conference. This year’s theme ‘Functional Perspectives on Food and Nutrition: The Ultimate Upstream Medicine’ covered many interesting and inspiring topics connected to nutrition, food, health and wellness. I would never have imagined that I would ever get…

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Would you like some azodicarbonamide with your bread?

Or perhaps some butylated hydroxytoluene with your chips. And would you prefer a little Red 3 or Red 40 with your candy? If you think back to a time when our great-great grandmas were doing all the cooking, perhaps we didn’t really need to ask what was in our food. Things were a lot more…

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The Missing Ingredient to Ultimate Health

It’s been the inspiration of songs, movies, poems, paintings, creations and inventions…this thing called LOVE. But what about health? Can love inspire health? While attending the Adrenal Summit last week I learnt from Functional Medicine Doctor, Daniel Kalish MD,  that a common theme, amongst the not so common patients who were able to avoid adrenal…

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Love your body and it will love you back!

When we take care of our body, when we learn how to listen to its subltle (or over time, not so subtle) messages our body responds brilliantly and we can live, not only symptom free, but with vitality. It’s a pretty simple truth, yet we often seem to forget, or ignore it. I would love to…

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Creamy, mashed…potato?

If there was a way to eat creamy mashed potatoes without worrying about your weight or health, wouldn’t you just want to dive in and eat a whole, big bowl of the stuff?? Me too! I love empowering my clients with recipes and ideas that prove that for every tasty traditional meal there is a…

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