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Chocolate To Boost Your Metabolism? Uh Yes Please (+ Additional Benefits)

Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I love chocolate so much I even have a bowl of chocolates in my office I eat from almost every day. Now I don’t recommend a bowl of easily accessible sugary treats to be within arms reach while you are trying to work, speaking from personal experience, ahem… but let’s gloss over that for now and instead focus on why eating chocolate in moderation may not be as bad for you as might assume! Most medical studies looking at the health properties of chocolate focus on dark chocolate (for good reason, as dark chocolate is a rich source […]

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Apr 14 2025

Ketogenic Diet Found Incredibly Helpful For All Types Of Eating Disorders

Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Eating disorders were totally glossed over in medical school, and that’s because they are notoriously hard to treat, so there were not a lot of solutions presented to us. In fact, still to date there are no effective biological treatments for Anorexia Nervosa. But a new study offers hope, and not only that, but it is a simple, holistic, all natural way to address eating disorders without expensive medications, therapies or treatment programs. Just a dietary modification that has the ability to successfully treat Anorexia Nervosa so well that it puts patients into multi-year long remissions without relapse.

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Feb 17 2025

Your Waistline Is Telling You That You Are Under Chronic Stress… Here Is What To Do About It

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

An expanding waistline is actually a very common response to stress, and it signals that you are producing too much cortisol as a response to prolonged stress. I think of fat accumulation in the central abdominal area not as a marker of being overweight as much as it’s a marker of stress and high cortisol levels. So instead of monitoring your eating, maybe what you should be monitoring is your cortisol and stress levels. Because stress weight gain is different from other forms of weight gain — it typically centers in the abdominal area and is the

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Jun 10 2024

Working With Your Brain, Not Against It, For Easier Weight Loss

Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

If you get my weekly newsletter (and sign up here if you don’t! It’s a fabulous, free, uplifting health resource!) than you already know I turned 50 this year. On my birthday I shared my mindframe heading into the second half-century of my life, along with some holistic longevity tips: I’m 50 Today! Musings On Turning A Half Century Old + 7 Longevity Tips Well turning 50 had me noticing perimenopausal symptoms — there is no more denying it — and with that has come a bit of weight gain. I found myself routinely internally shaming myself for

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May 20 2024

Improve Your Mental Health Naturally, Starting With Your Next Meal

Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Did you know that gluten is a neuro-irritant — meaning it causes inflammation in the brain and has been linked to cognitive decline, even directly to dementia? I wrote this article for you back in 2014 to help explain how dementia could be considered a gluten-induced condition. More recent evidence suggests that not only does the brain inflammation that gluten causes affect your brain, it might also be affecting your mental health, including causing or worsening mood disorders like depression and anxiety. As someone who has struggled with anxiety her entire life, I am very interested to read

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Mar 4 2024

You Can’t Lose Stress Weight By Dieting, Do These 10 Lifestyle Hacks Instead

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Are you having fun yet? As much as the holidays can be a meaningful time of connection, damn can it be stressful. You might typically associate stress with a tension headache, or difficulty sleeping at night, or being in a bad mood. But did you know stress also causes weight gain? But if you don’t know that stress causes weight gain, you’ll probably wind up blaming your diet and then stress out about every bite of food you eat. But that’s not necessary. In fact, stressing out about what you are eating actually contributes to more weight gain.

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Dec 18 2023

The Sugar You Eat Ages Your Face: How To Reverse The “Sugar Sag” In Your Skin

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Last week I blogged about healthy party foods that you can find at almost every holiday gathering — hop over here if you want to be armed with a list of my top 5 party foods that I reach for before heading into your holiday parties and New Years Eve celebrations. The Healthiest Party Foods To Eat + Navigating Your Specific Food Cravings And just to be clear — chocolate is one of my go-to foods on that party list. And yes I know there is sugar in chocolate. If you want to read more about the astounding

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Dec 11 2023

Chocolate To Boost Your Metabolism? Uh Yes Please (+ Additional Benefits)

Ketogenic Diet Found Incredibly Helpful For All Types Of Eating Disorders

Your Waistline Is Telling You That You Are Under Chronic Stress… Here Is What To Do About It

Working With Your Brain, Not Against It, For Easier Weight Loss

Improve Your Mental Health Naturally, Starting With Your Next Meal

You Can’t Lose Stress Weight By Dieting, Do These 10 Lifestyle Hacks Instead

The Sugar You Eat Ages Your Face: How To Reverse The “Sugar Sag” In Your Skin

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