by Daphne Olivier | Apr 8, 2021 | Blog Posts Only
Emotional eating. We are all familiar with it. Emotional eating is broadly defined as food consumption that occurs due to your emotional state or cues such as boredom, loneliness, or anxiety. It happens in a time of heightened emotions. Sometimes it occurs with...
by Daphne Olivier | Mar 30, 2021 | Blog Posts Only
In the nutrition industry we focus on three different macronutrients – carbohydrates, fat, and protein. Carbs and fat have gotten a lot of attention with the dieting industry. The push is to limit or eliminate carbohydrates and increase fat, leaving protein as...
by Daphne Olivier | Feb 16, 2021 | Blog Posts Only, Fermented and Cultured Foods
I get so many questions about yogurt – is it healthy or not? Here’s the Yogurt Showdown… everything you want to know (and maybe some things you did not even know you want to know) about choosing yogurt. While we all know what yogurt is, do you really know what yogurt...
by Daphne Olivier | Jan 28, 2021 | Blog Posts Only, Blood Sugar, Hormones, thyroid
When I was in college my dad was diagnosed with diabetes. This led to me taking a deep dive into better understanding blood sugar. There are a multitude of ways blood sugar impacts your health, even without a diagnosis of diabetes. This includes hormone fluctuations...
by Daphne Olivier | Jan 13, 2021 | Blog Posts Only
At any given time, there are at least 5 mainstream diets that have their own nutrition principles of how to be successful within that program. In part, that is what makes these diets work for the people who partake in them. The guidelines are clear, and when you are...
