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Is it an eating disorder…or is it PCOS?
I got my start in this specialty in a nontraditional fashion. Even though I did a lot of work in endocrinology initially, I gravitated into sports nutrition, and from there, eating disorders. I initially started my business thinking that it would be a resource center for eating disorders. But PCOS followed me. I kept getting phone…
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Is being vegetarian hurting your fertility?
So you've been told you need to clean up your nutrition act, and you've stopped eating the Fritos. You've decided to stop being the reason the stock price of your local fast food restaurant has weathered the Wall Street willies. Your salad dressing shelf in your refrigerator is now half of what's in your refrigerator.Still no luck…
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Feast on yeast! It is extremely PCOS-friendly
Yesterday I wrote about Vegemite, an Australian yeast-based food with a whole lot of nutritional power.Can't wrap your brain around that? Consider nutritional yeast, a cousin to this food that is more readily available and equally as nutritious.This type of yeast is cultured with sugars for about a week, then packaged to sell.What…
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When it comes to making healthy choices…packaging counts!
Still another trend I saw at Expo West was an emphasis on new packaging. Companies it seems, have heard the message that we don't want things in plastic bottles. That's the good news. What is frustrating is the learning curve they seem to be going through in order to get to a solution.Here is Mother Nature's packaging for my argum…