Immune Boosting Tomato Soup

How good does a cup of warm soup sound during chilly days? Right! I simply can’t resist.  From a nutritional point of view, as the weather gets colder its important to make a transition from eating cooling foods to eating warming foods because food has thermal properties.  During the colder fall and winter months, it’s a good idea to incorporate more...
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FDA Finally Acknowledges the Danger of Trans Fats

Photo: Google Images It’s about time! The Food and Drug Administration finally acknowledges the dangers of trans fats.  On Thursday the FDA ruled for the first time that “trans fats aren’t generally considered safe in foods”.   This sudden shift can finally change food manufacturing policy to ban trans fats once and for all!  With recent efforts, New York City, Seattleand...
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Watermelon Goat Cheese Salad

Since the weather has been like 100 degrees here in good ole California this past week, today I decided to make something fun and refreshing for lunch. I don’t know about you, but when its scorching hot outside I don’t have much of an appetite to eat a huge meal let alone prepare one. So I decided to get a...
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Hello World!

  Hello and welcome to my blog.  I’m so excited that you’ve found me! I am a 20-something nutritionist in Los Angeles.  I’ve always wanted to start blogging about health and wellness but wanted to wait until I had my bachelor’s degree and proper training because I wanted this to be informative, fun and useful for you!  Well, I received...
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Top 7 Reasons to Exercise

I’ll admit it, I’m getting closer to the BIG 30 and I’m a little freaked out. I don’t want to age… we’ll let me rephrase … I know aging is inevitable, but I’m determined to age gracefully like fine wine.  So, since nutrition and health is my specialty, I’ve read countless research articles and books from nutrition, fitness and anti-aging...
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