The skin you’re in – it’s marvelous, amazing, truly an astounding organ that protects you from harm, perspires out pathogens, and helps regulate your temperature. It’s elastic, regenerative, and highly adaptable. It’s also a window into what’s going on inside your body. Sometimes our skin can be the most honest look at things that we don’t even know are happening inside of us like chronic and systemic inflammation, an overload of toxicity, digestive dysfunction, and an overactive or imbalanced immune or histamine response…
Read moreThoughts on the New Canada Food Guide
I’ve been getting a tonne of questions regarding the new Canada Food Guide that was released yesterday, and figured I’d do a more public post in case there are more of you out there curious about my thoughts. For those of you who aren’t aware, after many overdue years, Canada updated their totally out-of-touch food guide previously based on a pyramid structure of food groups. The new guideline is based more on a “what your plate should look like” approach and incorporates some other suggestions and concepts, previous neglected in the original design…
Read moreSpring 2018 Workshops + Cooking Classes
Hey Whole-Happiers! Spring is (officially) in full swing and I’ve got a number of wonderful way in which you can get a little whole happy into your lives over the coming months! Below is a list of some of my upcoming workshops and cooking classes including topics on food + fitness, skin health + beauty, how to live a truly nourished life, and cooking classes ranging from plant-based to paleo, and meal prep to inflammation control...
Read moreHydration 101- Why water is important for our bodies, and how to hydrate properly
You’ve heard it time and time before - drink more water. Your doctor may have mentioned it to you, or your personal trainer. You’ve likely even read an article or two about chronic dehydration and what it might be doing to your body. As much as it’s now seeming like a cliché, there’s a reason there’s so much chatter about H20 - it’s SUPER important for our health and vitality, and sadly so many of us operate day-to-day with serious poor hydration due to...
Read moreFermented Foods: What They Are and Why You Should Add Them Daily Dietary Routine
It's pretty hard to miss these days: kombucha, sauerkraut, kefir, even cashew cheese. Fermented foods are a hot topic, appear on almost every healthful menu, and are part of almost every wellness protocol. But it’s not just some new trend! Fermentation has been around for as long as us humans have stored and saved our grub...
Read moreWhat Your Food Cravings Are Really Telling You
We’ve all been there: a food or flavour that we can’t get out of our mind and if we don’t consume it is in the next few minutes we might rip someone’s head off. We often poke fun at our dietary obsessions, but what are our cravings telling us?....
Read moreSay Goodbye to Seasonal Allergies
My husband and I have been together for nearly 9 years. Every year around this time our house was sprinkled with a snowfall of snotty tissues, and the constant sound of “achoo” was the soundtrack of our spring. Watery eyes, soar throat, leaky faucet nose – it was basically as if he was sick for 3 months straight. The worst right? Well about 2 years ago all that changed...
Read moreHow to Have a Whole Happy Travel Experience
So many people complain about how they get sick as soon as they go on vacation. This is in part because we work extra hard, sleep extra less, stress extra more, before going away, and once our body is able to get into that parasympathetic mode (ie. calm and relaxed), it finally says “ahhh” and allows itself to fight off all those bugs that have been building up in it for weeks, even months. Another reason is that with the build-up of stress, sleepless nights, poor diet and digestion, and the works, our body isn’t as primed to deal with all the new and wacky things it comes into contact with while abroad.
Read moreHow to Have a Well-Nourished Summer
While in my humble opinion EVERY season is all about food, there is something special about summer eating. For many, it’s the only time of year to comfortably dine outside breathing in the fresh air and catching a few rays – the way nature intended it, and my absolute favourite way to feast. Everyone seems to be more relaxed in the summer (great for digestion), and open to exciting new flavours (great for dietary variation)...
Read moreWhat, When, and How To Eat For More Balanced Mood and Energy Levels
It’s a question I get asked constantly: how often in a day should I be eating? Three square meals? A bunch of small snacks? 1-2 large meals with intermittent fasting? The simple answer is that it depends on what you’d like to get from your meals. We are all bio-individuals after all, and based on our ancestry, health history, and wellness goals we all need different foods, in different macro-nutrient ratios, at different times of the times.
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