I love to cook and eat healthy foods. It is so fun to learn about new foods and creative ways to prepare them on other foodie's blogs. I have the most wonderful and supportive husband! We have three cats that mean the world to us. I am curretly on a weight loss journey. Along the way I am learning more about myself than I ever knew before.
I have been battling a light case of diabetes for 7 years, keeping my numbers down y diet and with metformin. I also battle digestive issues often, as well as some allergies and joint pain. Since 2 of these are related to food, I'd like to learn ways to prepare food and what foods are going to help me keep from having a full blown case of diabetes and keep from having...
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I am a freelance photojournalist and full time 'Lego-engineering-PlayDough-sculpting-cupcake-baking-vegan-momma'.
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My name is Jenna not only do I have a brilliant marriage to a remarkable man, but I have been blessed with two amazing kiddos, Miles (5) and Lyric (2).
We had been vegetarian for five years before our son Miles...
I'm a 28 year old stay at home mom on a mission to get my family healthy. Let me take you back to December 22, 2008, that's where MY mission began. My then 9 month old son was up all night long with a tummy ache, and as I heard him cry "mama" through the monitor I knew he needed me. As I went to get out of bed I felt like a metric ton weight was pushing me back and when my feet hit the...
I'm trained as an occupational physician (OP) and worked in that field for 14 years. Then I shifted to freelance journalism and had my own business for 10 years. After that I stepped into the (academic) world of knowledge generation and transfer in the field of work and health. Occupational diseases became are my major topic: how to recognize them, how to monitor them and how to prevent them in...
I am 25 yrs old. I am a very VERY picky eater. For the past 10 years, Ive been eating chicken breast & certain cuts of beef as the only meat in my diet. I dont eat many vegetables; only lettuce, corn, onion, & green bell pepper, BUT they have to be prepared/eaten in a certain way. I also dont eat many fruits, although I enjoy eating them, they dont always satisfy my cravings. Its very...
I'm a personal chef, so I prepare food for people who have specific nutritional/dietary needs, and I try to make everything taste just the way they like it. That's a challenge, but I thrive on challenges when they involve food and helping people achieve their goals!
Isabel Lizarazu grew up in a medical household in Bolivia, where her father is a highly respected physician. From an early age, she was exposed to both conventional and native healing methods, as well as Ayurvedic and Tibetan medicine. At 18 she went to Germany to study medicine but became disenchanted with conventional approaches to healing, and turned to studying the traditional medicines,...
I'm an herbalist/herbwife in the Anima Medicine Woman Tradition, which is to say that my practice is focused on local plants, sustainability, whole person/whole plant understandings and earthy, practical ways of teaching people to work with the plants themselves rather than being dependent on experts. I've been influenced by the Appalachian healing I grew up around as well as the Mexican/Native...
Tummyblogger is, of course, a pseudonym. Under my own name, I am a retired counseling/clinical psychologist, with additional experience in health policy analysis.
This journal began as a diary of sorts of what I do (rather than the gritty details of what I experience) in day-to-day living. The diet changes for IBS are new to me, and I am still experimenting. I live alone, so I do not cook...
