Dishing Up Nutrition

Listen in as we interview three past clients to hear how changing their nutrition helped their health. You will hear from a past client who put her MS into remission by eating real food, someone who was able to get rid of chronic pain by quitting her sugar habit and someone who lost a great deal of weight but her success is about so much more than weight loss. Are you ready to be our next success story?

Today we will be sharing our thoughts and ideas on how to stay mindful of your goals and your personal health plan during the holidays. Hopefully, we can help you say, “no” to the fudge, the Christmas cookies and the bars on this final stretch to the New Year and say, “yes” to the food that makes you feel alive and full of energy.

In today’s show, we want to help you understand how you can use food and nutrition to beat your holiday depression and winter blues. We will share how your food choices affect how well you handle the extra stress the holiday season brings, along with why your brain needs adequate levels of vitamin D to avoid the winter blues.

Listen in as we interview Judith Finlayson, author of “You Are What Your Grandparents Ate” where she explains that how our grandparents ate and lived their lives has a direct bearing on who we are today.

Listen in to learn how you can care for and feed your brain for optimal functioning, especially if you or your child has attention or behavioral issues. If you are looking for a more natural approach to manage ADHD symptoms, we’ll be talking about how diet can help.

Learn how the foods you eat affect your brain health and especially how the foods you eat can increase or decrease anxiety, depression and your sense of well-being. If you are struggling with anxiety or depression, what are you eating? What is the connection between your diet and your mental health? Listen in as we discuss some basic nutritional information that you can use to either avoid getting depression or use to relieve symptoms of depression.

Have you ever woken up with a miserable headache? Or do you feel like your head starts to throb around 3 o’clock in the afternoon? If you or a family member struggle with headaches or migraines, we’ll be sharing five common causes of headaches plus some simple solutions to help you avoid getting a headache, and avoid taking pain medication that can negatively affect your body when taken over a long period of time.

Listen in as we share foods you should eat and foods you should avoid during pregnancy to help both mom and baby be the healthiest they can be. We’ll be giving you tips and ideas for what to eat and talking about the importance of eating real food. We’ll also discuss some of the symptoms many moms experience during pregnancy, like morning sickness, heartburn, constipation, high blood pressure and gestational diabetes, along with tricks to overcome them naturally.

Women between the ages of 35 to 55 often experience a shift in their hormones, which is called perimenopause. Today, we are going to talk about how having excess estrogen during perimenopause can lead to night sweats, hot flashes, mood swings and even weight gain. Find out signs and symptoms of a decrease of progesterone and an excess of estrogen or estrogen dominance, as well as how to detox artificial estrogen naturally.

Listen in to Dishing Up Nutrition as we dispel a common myth that extra weight is putting you at risk for developing Type 2 diabetes. The truth is, the cause of Type 2 diabetes is much more complex. We’ll help to show you that there are actually many other factors putting people at risk, which we will discuss throughout the show.