Category: Healthy Eating

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The Real Deal on Sugar

The Real Deal on Sugar

It’s a good two months after the holidays, but many of us are still struggling with an addiction to sugar. High sugar intake can deplete your body of [...]
Clean Drinking with Hartford Flavor Company

Clean Drinking with Hartford Flavor Company

Lelaneia Dubay began making cranberry liqueur for holiday gifts starting in 2008, then in 2011 beset by gluten and chemical sensitivities, she created [...]
Ginger & Lemon Concentrate to Support Detoxification & Digestion

Ginger & Lemon Concentrate to Support Detoxification & Digestion

As a rule, all parents know that their kids are different from each other. This difference can be viewed in different ways—with my kiddos it is very e [...]
Farmer Bill’s Top 5 Tips to Stay Healthy This Winter

Farmer Bill’s Top 5 Tips to Stay Healthy This Winter

At Fat Stone Farm (Lyme, CT), proprietors Liz and Bill Farrell take their health seriously – in fact their health is one of the main reasons they star [...]
Cholesterol, Just the Fats!

Cholesterol, Just the Fats!

By design, everything our body does has a purpose. So, why would it produce so much cholesterol if it were bad? What is Cholesterol? While many [...]
Vitamin Deficiency is More Common Than You Think

Vitamin Deficiency is More Common Than You Think

When I talk about micronutrients in my practice, not everyone knows what I’m referring to without a proper explanation. Micronutrients are nutritional [...]
Simple Meal Planning for the New Year

Simple Meal Planning for the New Year

It’s that time again… January… the New Year… the holidays are over… Thank God because I couldn’t possibly eat another thing for the rest of the year! [...]
Grand Gesture for Health

Grand Gesture for Health

Do you have a metabolic disorder? Do you have sugar handling problems? For many of us, we get stuck in the system—a traditional allopathic system, tha [...]
Low Carb Diet For Weight Loss?

Low Carb Diet For Weight Loss?

“I just can’t lose weight!” This is the statement I hear from so many patients, but there is a solution. The low carbohydrate diet may be just the thi [...]
Soil as a Gateway for Eliminating Toxins

Soil as a Gateway for Eliminating Toxins

Natural treatments for illness typically revolve around eliminating “the bad” (e.g. toxins) and boosting or amplifying “the good” (e.g. wellness). Sim [...]
Max Chef to Farm Celebrates 10 Years

Max Chef to Farm Celebrates 10 Years

Growing up a few minutes down the road from Rosedale Farms in Simsbury, I have long awaited the opportunity to attend a Max Chef to Farm dinner under [...]
Spicing Up Your Plate with Healthy Benefits

Spicing Up Your Plate with Healthy Benefits

PHOTO CREDIT: Cheyney Barrieau for Eat IN Connecticut There’s a whole new meaning to spicing up your meal in Connecticut. Whether you dine in Wes [...]
Paleo Banana Bread

Paleo Banana Bread

For many of us, the idea of reducing grain in our diet is not very exciting… what will we nosh on? There is something very nourishing about eating som [...]
Jessica Pizano, Owner of Fit to You, LLC

Jessica Pizano, Owner of Fit to You, LLC

This business spotlight is our fifth in a series recognizing local holistic practitioners and businesses that are celebrating 10 years in 2017. I had [...]
Think Like a Vegetarian

Think Like a Vegetarian

I have a love/hate relationship with meat. I love how it keeps me satisfied and sustains my husband, a competitive cyclist. To be honest, it has jus [...]
Secrets to Eating Healthy on the Road

Secrets to Eating Healthy on the Road

It’s a common story: You wake up before dawn, rush to the airport and arrive with only a few minutes to spare before boarding. Glancing around, you re [...]
Genuine Hospitality and Delicious Fare at the Farmhouse Restaurant

Genuine Hospitality and Delicious Fare at the Farmhouse Restaurant

Tucked away in a cozy plaza in Newtown is an amazing farm-to-table restaurant that focuses on delivering fresh local food in a warm and welcoming sett [...]
Highlights from the 1st Annual West Hartford Wine & Food Festival

Highlights from the 1st Annual West Hartford Wine & Food Festival

Residents of Connecticut and beyond enjoyed some of the state’s best food and drink at the First Annual West Hartford Wine & Food Festival on Saturday [...]
Popover Bistro’s Powerplay:  The Power Bowl

Popover Bistro’s Powerplay: The Power Bowl

The “Power Bowl” is quickly becoming the Holy Grail of health food. For those unfamiliar with this rising food star - also known as the “Buddha Bowl,” [...]
Cut Sugar, Fat and Salt with Transition Foods

Cut Sugar, Fat and Salt with Transition Foods

Many of us are addicted to sugar, salt, and toxic fat tastes and the transition to healthier eating can often feel like utter deprivation. Taste buds [...]
Food: You Are What You Eat

Food: You Are What You Eat

Food is the ONE thing that people dose themselves with every single day. Food provides comfort and nourishment. It is engrained in casual social even [...]
Tools To Take Charge of Your Health

Tools To Take Charge of Your Health

Have you ever felt like you need a “tune-up?” Health and body need a re-boot? Are you feeling less than your best? Chalking it up to working too hard [...]
Spring Into New Uses For the Humble Egg

Spring Into New Uses For the Humble Egg

With the advent of spring it seemed fitting to highlight the humble egg. For thousands of years, the egg has been a symbol of new life, rebirth, fert [...]
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