by Trish | Oct 30, 2022 | Food Marketing, Myths
I have a complicated relationship with sugar. I like it – well, who doesn’t, right? My brain was trained from a young age to see sugar as something rewarding, comforting, exciting and even forbidden. Food manufacturers didn’t help as they amped up kids’ cereals with...
by Trish | Nov 18, 2019 | ABC's of Healthy Hormones, Food Marketing, Hormones, Organic, Recipe, Toxic Load
The short answer? Yes. Yes, it really does matter. To our overall health and to our hormonal health. Which is why I’ve opened this controversial can of worms as part of the ABCs of Healthy Hormones series, and risked the wrath of opponents and deniers. Look...
by Trish | Sep 9, 2019 | ABC's of Healthy Hormones, Food Marketing, Hormones, Hunger Hormones, Insulin, Recipe
Smoking is declining – thank goodness! In 1965, 49% of Canadians over the age of 15 smoked daily. Since the 1970s when a concentrated push toward anti-smoking campaigns and government interventions in the tobacco industry began, the decline has been steady. In...
by Trish | Apr 22, 2019 | Diets, Digestion, Food Marketing, Plant-Based Diet, Recipe, Toxic Load
Happy Spring! I’m hopeful – ever hopeful – that it’s actually coming. On paper, Spring has sprung about a month ago but the weather where I live anyway has been a little wonky (actually, a LOT wonky!) and it just didn’t seem like it wanted to let go of Winter. Today...
by Trish | Jan 21, 2019 | Food Marketing, Organic, Plant-Based Diet, Recipe
Well, that was quick. As ‘pumped up’ and ’excited’ people were about their New Year’s Resolutions, I hate to tell you…but most of these (along with all of the enthusiasm that was present on Jan 1st) have already fizzled out. Nope, it isn’t my Inner Mean Girl voice...
by Trish | Feb 7, 2018 | Cortisol, Diabetes, Food Marketing, Hormones, Insulin, Plant-Based Diet, Recipe, Sleep
When you hear the words ‘blood sugar management’ – do you immediately think about restrictive eating, pricking your finger to measure your blood before meals, or diabetes medications like insulin injections? Or do you think of feeling light-headed and faint and...
