After all the holiday hullabaloo and come January 1, every time I checked my email the words CLEANSE, DETOX, or FAST were exploding from the subject lines. The act of foregoing food for juice to make up for indulgent eating has become as common as covering a cut with a band-aid. Last year I jumped right in and ordered a… Read More
Happy Thanksgiving! I have always loved Thanksgiving. Of course, because of the food! But more than that, I love the time I get to spend with the people I love in my hometown, Louisville, Ky. Having lived in NYC for almost 8 years, there’s nothing like spending a few days in a slower, smaller town catching up with family and… Read More
Aside from green juice and healthy food, sleep is up right up there on my list of favorite things. I crave it and I know my body needs at least eight hours of it. Unfortunately, in our hectic lives, sleep is one of the first things to go. Trying to get more done in a day, we sacrifice sleep. Someone… Read More
What constitutes the perfect weekend has changed a lot in recent years. It used to be that hitting up all the NYC hot spots was what I was after. Now, it’s all about lots of rest, a good workout and healthy food. Oh, yes, things have changed! After a later-than-usual Thursday night at The Kooks concert, all I wanted to… Read More
I had the rare opportunity to participate in the bodyheart program last month during it’s one-day stop in NYC. As is so typical of me, I scheduled my shoot smack-dab in the middle of a jam-packed day full of meetings that even more conveniently followed a late-night arrival home from a weekend trip to Chicago. Whew! Just writing that exhausted… Read More
When I was 13 I read the book Meat is Murder and refused to dissect a frog in my eighth grade science class (it caused quite the stir, I will say). Ever since then, I have eaten some kind of vegetarian, vegan or pescatarian diet. More than 20 years later, I haven’t missed an ounce of meat. In many ways,… Read More
I had the pleasure of attending yet another Institute for Integrative Nutrition Conference yesterday (what can I say, they really look out for their students and graduates!) where I heard the latest from Integrative Health Specialist, Dr. Andrew Weil on the subject of inflammation. It’s the low-level, undetected, un-noticeable internal inflammation that is a precursor to disease and among the… Read More
New Yorkers who work in Midtown never have a reason to have an unhealthy lunch. Free Foods is the healthy, organic equivalent to the corner bodega. Yes, get excited! In the business districts of Manhattan, it can be a struggle to find a healthy lunch. When I used to work in Midtown West, the “healthiest” (and I use that term… Read More
There are boyfriend jeans and boyfriend sweaters and then there is the boyfriend diet. All may be comfy, but one will leave you feeling pretty crappy. For years, I thought I was the only person who struggled to balance my healthy diet with the favorite foods of a hungry boyfriend. I’ve never been one to leave my boyfriend to fend… Read More
