Choose Better Fats to Boost Mental Health

Choose Better Fats to Boost Mental Health

What fats are you are eating? One of the best steps you can take to improve your mental fitness and protect your brain is to pay attention to the types of fats you are giving your body. Your brain consumes about 20 percent of the calories you eat each day. To...
4 Reasons to Choose the Farmers’ Market

4 Reasons to Choose the Farmers’ Market

I love bringing Mother Nature’s bounty into my kitchen — seasonal, fresh, locally grown. Love farm fresh foods! As a functional nutrition therapist and someone who truly believes in the power of food to heal. It’s a way of nourishing my body (my family’s)...
3 Way Strawberry Cucumber Salad

3 Way Strawberry Cucumber Salad

Going local for the variety, delicious ripe and nutrient-rich seasonal produce. Local, luscious red strawberries have SO much more flavor than those shipped hundreds of miles. And strawberries are good mood red foods. But because of pesticide overuse, strawberries...
Nut Crusted Salmon

Nut Crusted Salmon

This nutrient dense, delicious recipe is also good brain food. Salmon is rich in Omega-3 essential fatty acids that help build brain cells fight inflammation in the brain and increase production of brain growth hormones that give your brain the ability to grow and...
Pescatarian Easter Menu

Pescatarian Easter Menu

This Easter menu brings together the magnificence of spring foods — roasted asparagus with lemon zest zing, bright green sugar snap peas with mint & purple potatoes, roasted salmon , a salad harmoniously balancing piquant arugula and luscious strawberries. A...