"A calorie is a calorie." How many times have you heard that? Usually closely followed by "It's a matter of calories in versus calories out. To lose weight, all you need to do is consume fewer calories than you're burning." WRONG!! All calories are not created equal, and our bodies do not process them all equally. The more I learn about nutrition, the more strongly I believe that there are other factors at work that promote or hamper weight loss. Counting calories gives us one type of information, and it can be useful information, but it is not the be-all and end-all. Here are my top five reasons why all calories are not created equal, and why it's not as simple as calories in versus calorie
Most of us have a sense of which foods are good for us and which ones aren’t, but can you explain WHY that is?? I’ve found that it makes me much more motivated to eat healthy when I have a thorough understanding of what effect those foods are having in my body. The problem is, there are so many categories of foods and individual foods within them. Nutrition can seem so daunting, with more details than one person could ever remember. But I’ve found that a few overarching principles explain the “why” or “why not” for most foods. One of these overarching principles is inflammation. Certain foods have a pro-inflammatory effect in the body, and others have an anti-inflammatory effect. Let’s take
You know that feeling when you get home from a vacation and you can sense with every cell of your body that you overindulged? When you just feel sluggish, bloated, and BLAH? That's exactly the feeling the 3 Day Refresh is meant to address. It's a three-day vegan cleanse that is meant to hit a "reset" button for your body. If you've gotten off track from healthy eating, it's meant to get you back to it and kick any junk food habits and cravings that may have taken hold. If you've never before experienced how your body feels with clean eating, this is meant to be a crash course. It may be a drastic change, but its short three-day timeframe makes it manageable. How does it work?? Our bodies are
