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Easy Tips To Help You Navigate Holiday Party Foods and Drinks

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

November is upon us, and with Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays running towards us back to back, that usually means lots of celebratory foods we might not normally choose to eat and drinks we might not routinely drink. It also means folks are stressing about their weight. More on that at the end of this blog post. Whether holiday parties are stressing you out, picking out the perfect gift, figuring out how to afford travel (damn it’s so expensive!) or balancing social commitments, even joyful holidays can be stressful ones. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, […]

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Nov 4 2024

Holiday Eating & Drinking Tips To Protect Your Health (+ Avoid Weight Gain)

Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

Holiday stress isn’t just stress over picking out the perfect gift, or traveling in the midst of a pandemic, or balancing social commitments. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, alcohol, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. So well before the holiday season gets underway — a season that generally starts with Halloween candy binges and doesn’t end until after we ring in 2021 — I wanted to give you a few tips on how to navigate this tricky but wonderful time of comfort

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Oct 26 2020

My Favorite Tips For Navigating Food & Drinks At Holiday Parties

Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

Holiday stress isn’t all just about juggling the social commitments, traveling or picking out just the right gift. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, alcohol, temptation everywhere, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. If there was ever a time that people worry about their weight, it’s during the holidays. How to navigate this tricky but wonderful time of comfort food, decadent desserts, and celebratory toasts galore? Today, I’ll tell you! It’s tricky to be around party foods… what if you want to stick

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Dec 23 2019

How To Navigate Holiday Parties Without Regretting What You Eat (Or Drink)

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Holiday stress isn’t all just about juggling the social commitments, traveling or picking out just the right gift. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, alcohol, temptation everywhere, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. If there was ever a time that people worry about their weight, it’s during the holidays. How to navigate this tricky but wonderful time of comfort food, decadent desserts, and celebratory toasts galore? Today, I’ll tell you! 1. Protecting your liver at holiday parties: Drinking wine occasionally has enjoyed

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Nov 26 2018

How To Protect Your Liver At Holiday Parties

Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Today I’m just giving a quick, real-life health tip considering we are just on the verge of launching fully into holiday season, which means holiday meals, holiday get togethers, and impromptu toasts abound! Drinking wine occasionally has enjoyed mixed health reviews — with some studies reporting cognitive benefits from wine (although for those you can simply take resveratrol supplements!) and many studies reporting that alcohol increases cancer risk. And because holiday parties typically mean a lot of driving out and about to attend these parties, my first recommendation is just not to drink at all! But if

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Nov 13 2017

Lithium In Our Drinking Water?

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Many recent studies have come out lately showing just how important the mineral lithium is to our health. And I’m all for whatever natural solutions we can find to preserve health… but not this one. I’ll give you details below on studies that show that long term lithium use is associated with a reduced risk of dementia, and this is on top of previous studies that show that lithium may actually lower our over all lifetime risk of cancer. But adding it to the water supply, instead of just recommending lithium supplementation? Uh… no. I’m not good with that.

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Oct 30 2017

Thoughts On Health… my fav water filter

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

You all know how I feel about fluoride. I’ve blogged here about why I avoid it in my toothpaste and why I don’t really want to be drinking it, either. In fact, as I get older and have passed the age of peak bone density (and anyone who is over the age of 30 has) I want to preserve bone mass more than ever. I really think it is important that I avoid fluoride altogether (and soy too.) Alas, this is impossible. If you eat food grown from the earth, you consume fluoride. Thanks to the government mass medicating

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Aug 22 2011

Easy Tips To Help You Navigate Holiday Party Foods and Drinks

Holiday Eating & Drinking Tips To Protect Your Health (+ Avoid Weight Gain)

My Favorite Tips For Navigating Food & Drinks At Holiday Parties

How To Navigate Holiday Parties Without Regretting What You Eat (Or Drink)

How To Protect Your Liver At Holiday Parties

Lithium In Our Drinking Water?

Thoughts On Health… my fav water filter

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