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Improve Your Mental Health With Your Very Next Meal (+ 5 More Things You Can Do Today To Feel Relief)

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

As someone who has struggled with anxiety her entire life, I am very interested to read up on medical studies exploring ways that our diet impacts our mental health (I’ve blogged for you in the past right here about foods that increase anxiety, and yep, gluten was on that list!) because this also provides natural, holistic ways to help reduce anxiety and depression — by simply reducing or eliminating gluten. That’s just one example of how our mental health can be shaped by the foods we choose to eat. Last week I told you how a keto diet […]

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Feb 24 2025

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

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 Healthiest Party Foods To Eat + Navigating Your Specific Food Cravings

Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

Last week was Thanksgiving. That usually means food. 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, alcohol, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. So as holiday season gets underway I wanted to give you

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Dec 4 2023

Holiday Eating And Drinking: What Party Foods To Eat (+ Why You Crave What You Do)

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Holiday stress isn’t just stress over picking out the perfect gift, figuring out how to afford travel (damn it’s so expensive!) 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 as holiday season gets underway I wanted to give you a few tips on how to navigate this tricky but wonderful time of comfort food, decadent desserts, and celebratory toasts. If there was ever a time that people worry about their weight, it’s during the

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Nov 28 2022

This Statistic Really Surprised Me About Fast Food (+ Quick Alternatives)

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

I am always finding something interesting in the medical literature, but I have to say this one surprised even me. A study, published by the National Center for Health Statistics, found that on any given day, over 1/3 of all adults in america aged 40 – 59 years old (37%) are consuming fast food. One out of three! That’s 85 million adults eating fast food on any given day. And sadly, for younger Americans that number is even higher — almost half of Americans (45%) aged 20 – 45 years old are eating fast food on any given

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Nov 1 2021

Improve Your Mental Health With Your Very Next Meal (+ 5 More Things You Can Do Today To Feel Relief)

Easy Tips To Help You Navigate Holiday Party Foods and Drinks

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 Healthiest Party Foods To Eat + Navigating Your Specific Food Cravings

Holiday Eating And Drinking: What Party Foods To Eat (+ Why You Crave What You Do)

This Statistic Really Surprised Me About Fast Food (+ Quick Alternatives)

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