How Food Trends Can Inform Your Meals The beginning of the new year is always buzzing with conversations around health, food, and fitness. While most diet fads get a hard eye roll from nutrition experts, there are some optimistic trends and others that are intriguing enough for more convo. Here are 10 food and nutrition [...]
How to Detoxify and Set up a Cleanse There are many moments in life when we can evaluate and reevaluate our lives, and to seek out fresh starts. We can clear out the clutter in our homes, examine the content of our thoughts in our meditative practices, and turn our attention to the workings of [...]
The French bakery Ladurée is famous for their iconic double-decker pastel-hued macaroons. Their Beverly Hills bakery and restaurant occupies an airy and welcoming space on Beverly Drive. On September 26, Ladurée released their new plant-based menu in collaboration with renowned Chef Matthew Kenney. The Beverly Hills location is now Ladurée by Matthew Kenney with a [...]
Suffering with an eating disorder means that you are disconnected from your body. This most severe mental health issue takes over your mind and, in doing so, it denies the needs of your body or a persons ability to answer to them. The innate messages of hunger, fullness, exhaustion, fear, pleasure, everything, really, become dulled [...]
Tea for Yoga, Please Yoga and tea both represent and share a modern-day acknowledgement of ancient roots through daily practice and ritual. While many 21st century workouts emphasize efficiency and going over the top, yoga energizes and builds strength by encouraging people to consciously pressing the pause button and going within. Similarly, tea stands in [...]
Manuka Honeycomb Photo by @elsas_wholesomelife The first time I heard about Manuka honey, it was presented to me as an almost mythic substance. A master healer. A recommendation for something that could be eaten or used on the skin. An anti-bacterial agent. A boost for the body’s own natural healing processes. A [...]
When Rice is More Than Rice The Tabouli Bowl at The Butcher’s Daughter is the veggie-based Right Rice “It was a thrill and a treat to create something good enough that one of your favorite restaurants will want to feature it.” RightRice® Founder and CEO Keith Belling had this to say about the RightRice collaboration [...]
Models do Eat Author Jill de Jong shares her tips for a high performance breakfast. Meaningful food choices begin in the morning with a high performance breakfast I love sleep because it’s like a time machine to breakfast...And I'm the kind of person that doesn't ever skip breakfast. A high performance breakfast fuels [...]
Adaptogens Help us Meet Modern Demands The class of herbs known as adaptogens have gained popularity as a solution for the challenges of modern life. For most of us, life is far different from that of our grandparents. Our lives are more hectic. Besides many more diverse experiences, demands have changed too. Needing to keep [...]
When Not Eating Can Feed Your Body's Repair Abstaining from food for short periods (the practice of intermittent fasting) as a way to cleanse body and mind has a history going back millennia. Indigenous medicine men and women, Buddhist monks, Christian mystics, and others would subsist on only water for a few days to prime [...]