Peg’s Blog
Food & lifestyle ideas to keep you healthy
Fertilize Your Gut Like a Farmer for Weight Loss
Why build a healthy gut? By far, the most immune receptors are located in your gut. Likewise, 80-90% of your serotonin, the happy hormone, is produced in the gut.
Who Is Your Nutrition Guru?
If you’re like most women, you may follow a celebrity doctor or nutritionist with a huge following who is telling you exactly what to eat, when to eat it, and which supplements you must take to avoid dementia, osteoporosis, depression, sleep disturbances and so on. I know someone better to rely on.
Set Up Your Wellness Plan for Long Term Health
Are you looking to improve your health but don’t know where to start? What’s your next move?
The Never Ending Weight Loss Saga
Who among us doesn’t have that anxious feeling when stepping on a scale in a doctor’s office? I can’t think of many people, can you?
Promising pathway to weight loss, improved mood and heart health through a probiotic Akkermansia
Please Think Food First, Then Weight
Until we address the topic of food, there really is no reason to address the topic of weight
Weight. The Biggest Distraction of All
Lifestyle and weight management is not about the scale. It’s a combination of practices that each play a role in covering the ‘holes’ the others may have missed
Get to the Heart of Weight Loss
Remember when each new weight loss plan was the ‘final solution” to all our troubles around obesity and perfect bodies? Well, apparently that hasn’t work. So what will be the next great solution to weight loss and a perfect body? Obesity fighting injectables?
I Said I'd Talk about Obesity Drugs
Obesity Drugs - Think before you try them
At the start of 2023, Time magazine took a look at wellness trends for 2023 and through consultation with various experts decided there were a few that should be ditched. Among them are the hot new drugs designed to combat obesity. Oh, if only it were that easy…get a shot and drop the weight.
Your Diet’s Effect on Your Mental Health
Mental health is directly connection with nutritional health.
Are You Over 50 and Struggling with Your Weight?
Many physical changes occur once we hit the 50 and over mark, and they are not all pretty. Some can be really frustrating, like weight that just loves sticking to your body.
Supercheap Superfoods
Supercheap Superfoods really do exist. Check out a short list to get you started.
Diet and Covid-19 Complications for Some | Food Matters
Doctors and scientists are discovering two common characteristics among many of those who are losing their battle with COVID-19 — they are overweight or obese and suffer from a chronic disease.