Peg’s Blog
Food & lifestyle ideas to keep you healthy
Are Protein Bars a Good Idea?
A protein bar on rare occasions is all right. Eating them every day exposes you to highly processed ingredients and may keep you from getting essential nutrients contained in whole foods. Read beyond the label’s self-praise and know there are better choices.
Wellness and Well Being Is a Process
What would you like to change in your life? How do you get well? It’s a process.
4 Whole Grains for Breakfast
Incorporate healthy whole grains into your breakfast planning. They make a nourishing backdrop for your fruit, nuts and yogurt.
Recovering from Cancer
As a health and wellness coach, I like to think of prevention as a most important goal. If we can find ways to prevent the onset of cancer, going forward we will save friends, neighbors and loved ones from going through the suffering so many have endured
How Do You View Nutrition?
Multiple research studies show small steps tend to be the most effective and lasting way to change habits. This is especially true with making nutritional changes and weight loss.
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
Not Perfect? Try These Techniques
Whether we’re talking nutrition, successful family, community or career relationships, expecting perfection can be our nemesis.
Synergy between Weight Loss Products and Snack Food Industries
A May 15, 2023 article in The Wall Street Journal noted a 32% increase in snack consumption over the past year. There’s a real synergy between the mass marketing of new snack products and obesity drugs. Each feeds the other.