For the Love of Soup!

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For the Love of Soup!

If you have the time, energy and it’s available, foods like winter squash, onions, and potatoes have a longer shelf life, so you can buy them in bulk and create a variety of different meals and snacks that are nutritious and satisfying. A whole winter squash can keep for a month or so.

Butternut squash is rich in antioxidants like Vitamin C, Vitamin A and carotenoids like beta-carotene, alpha-carotene and beta-cryptoxanthin, which help to boost the immune system and reduce inflammation (boy, do we need those helpers these days!), and is a good source of manganese, potassium, magnesium and fiber.

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What the Heck is Intuitive Eating?

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What the Heck is Intuitive Eating?

Intuitive Eating is a weight neutral, evidenced based approach to health that helps people develop body awareness and learn to honor their health by listening and responding to the internal needs of their body. Studies on Intuitive Eating have shown improvement in HDL cholesterol, enjoyment of food, self compassion, quality of life, coping skills and self esteem and linked to reduced rates of eating disorders, disordered eating, cardiovascular risk and triglyceride levels, body dissatisfaction, and body shame.

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What the Heck is Diet Culture?

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What the Heck is Diet Culture?

This is the time of year where Diet Culture THRIVES! It finds life feeding on the insecurities of “indulgent” eating during the holidays, the idea that we need to “cleanse” our body of the “toxic” foods consumed, the old saying “New Year, New You,” often meaning let’s lose weight because we aren’t good enough the way we are. January hits and diet culture is stocked up on new products and diets, headlines of said celebrity losing “X” pounds doing this one simple thing and are barely recognizable, or whatever. It’s not even the end of the month and I’ve already had my fair share of eye roll moments.

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Tessa's Schweddy Holiday Balls

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Tessa's Schweddy Holiday Balls

‘Tis the season for Holiday Schweddy Balls! If you don’t get the reference, I’m sorry, go watch some holiday SNL from the 90’s and get back to me.

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Vitamin Table <3

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Vitamin Table <3

I am currently working towards becoming a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS) that requires 1,000 supervised hours in addition to passing the CNS exam, so I have lots of studying to do! I thought creating a vitamin and mineral table would be a helpful practice for me, but also as an educational resource for others.

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DIY Nut Milks

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DIY Nut Milks

My mother always told me "Less is more", and for most situations, I believe this statement to be pretty accurate. However, it wasn't until I started on my own health journey did I really start thinking about this statement in relation to food. Now I'm not saying eating less is food is more, but when it comes to the ingredients in the food we purchase, it should be a factor to consider.

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Adaptogen Bullet Coffee

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Adaptogen Bullet Coffee

If you follow any wellness bloggers or influencers, there's a good chance you've heard throw the term Adaptogens.  That's where I first learned about them. I was in my first year of grad school and I have to admit I was like "adapta-what" and "ashwa-who"?! But, I was so intrigued! I had to do some research what the heck they were talking about and is this a worthy health trend to follow.

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