5 Tips to Help Your Family Eat Healthier
The impact of food on overall health is something many people don’t fully understand. The plethora of choices we have today are all engineered to be delicious, with nutrition often taking a back seat. But as you probably know, poor nutrition leads to poor…well, everything else – from diminished educational performance and decreased physical fitness, to higher risk for chronic illness. It’s no...
What Is the Keto Diet?
High in fat. Adequate in protein. Low in carbohydrates. These are the hallmarks of the ketogenic diet, or “keto diet” for short. If you’re interested in the diet, then you probably have three major questions: Can keto help me lose weight? Yes it can, but it takes time to work. Is keto hard to follow? Yes, it is. What can’t you eat on keto? Carbs, primarily, such as...
Best Summer Foods for Wellness
Seasonal eating. It’s not just the idea that fruits and vegetables taste better and cost less when they are in season. Proponents of seasonal eating believe that in season produce provides the nutrients our bodies need most during that time of year. Let’s use summer as a topical example. It is the hottest season when we sweat most. It is also the season which grows hydrating...
April Is National Month of Hope and Stress Awareness Month
April is a big month for a chiropractic, nutrition and wellness center dedicated to helping patients prevent and reverse a wide variety of limiting conditions. It is the National Month of Hope, an awareness campaign launched by Mothers in Crisis to encourage others to do nothing less than “think hope.” We choose to interpret this open-ended appeal by encouraging others to move...
Tips for Healthy Eating During National Nutrition Month
It’s NATIONAL NUTRITION MONTH! National Nutrition Month is an annual campaign created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. It’s a time when everyone is encouraged to learn about making informed food choices. In addition, it’s a time to develop healthful diet and exercise habits. In honor of the occasion, here are some of the Calhoun Spine & Wellness Center team’s...
Diabetes and How Your Diet Can Help
There is no known cure for diabetes. We’re all greatly looking forward to the day when scientists uncover the secret, but until then someone living with diabetes can only look forward to their best prognosis by carefully managing their condition. In addition to taking regular exercise, losing weight, and insulin therapy, eating well is one of the most effective ways to manage diabetes....
Stay on Track With Your Fitness and Nutrition Goals During the Holidays
Cookies. Pie. Ham. Eggnog. Champagne. The bottle of spiced rum that Uncle Jerry unearthed from the deepest recesses of his liquor cabinet. Christmastime is a ceaseless onslaught of earthly delights that no one possesses the fortitude to resist entirely. In other words, we eat and drink a lot of treats around the holidays. This is less than ideal because treats do unwanted things to our...
What Is Skinny Fat?
Small crowd. Open Secret. Pretty ugly. These are all examples of an oxymoron: a figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear together. Did you know the word “oxymoron” is, itself, an oxymoron? It’s a combination of the two Greek words for sharp and dull! One oxymoron that’s gained a lot of traction these days is “skinny fat.” It describes a body that...
Eating With Purpose
How to Eat to live and Not Live to Eat Why do you eat? You might think the answer is simple: because you are hungry. But approaching so foundational an aspect of your overall health deserves a little more contemplation than that. In truth you might eat for any number of reasons. Perhaps you are stressed out after a hard day at work and seek solace in an entire sleeve of cookies. (We have all...