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Grounding While You Eat, A Game Changer For Your Digestion (+ Freebies)

Grounding, Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

Why does food always taste better at a picnic? Why does your morning coffee seem so much more satisfying when you take it outside to your front doorstep? Why do you never seem to feel the same heartburn or bloating or indigestion when you eat lunch outside on your lunch break instead of inside at your desk? Why is cooking dinner over an outdoor campfire or grill so much more fulfilling than cooking the same meal indoors? Grounding has a profound impact on your digestion, boosting your vagal tone (which supports the function of your entire digestive …

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Mar 9 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

Yet Another Study Gives Survival Advantage To Overweight, Not Underweight

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

Well I thought this would be the perfect medical article to blog about this week, as many of us tuck into eating huge delicious Thanksgiving holiday meals! If you are going to eat, don’t make those calories laden with guilt and remorse and negative thinking. As you can read in one of my previous blog posts, fat shaming physically harms your health. Don’t allow shame over food choices or weight to ruin your well being. Release the negative thinking and just enjoy what you eat. To help with that, here is a recently published medical study …

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Nov 20 2017

Saturated Fat Does NOT Increase Mortality

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

This week, many of us are heading into the holidays. And as you head into a week of parties and connection and warmth and pot lucks and FOOD… I can think of no better holiday gift than this: To share with you, directly from the medical literature, the truth that saturated fat does NOT increase mortality. It’s not about the fat… saturated fat intake does not increase rate of death. It’s about the inflammation and the long term damage that inflammation does to your blood vasculature (and your entire body, from your gut lining to your …

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Dec 21 2015

Holiday Eating Without Guilt: Your Top 4 Go-To Party Foods

Chakra Health, Healthy Mindframe, 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, 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 candies? Here are some of my very favorite holiday party foods that I never ever restrict: 1) Chocolate! Shown to support heart …

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Dec 7 2015

Foods That Prevent And Fight Cancer

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Typically, when I speak to patients who are concerned about their cancer risk, they are already focusing on eating as many berries, other fruits, and fresh veggies as they possibly can… to get powerful antioxidants and nutrients into their bodies. That’s absolutely great… but there is new evidence recently released in studies over the past few months that suggest that there are other foods that can reduce your cancer risk and help decrease mortality as well. What are they? Here is a list of foods and nutrients recently shown to reduce cancer risk: 1. Green Tea …

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Dec 16 2013

Grounding While You Eat, A Game Changer For Your Digestion (+ Freebies)

My Favorite Tips For Navigating Food & Drinks At Holiday Parties

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

Yet Another Study Gives Survival Advantage To Overweight, Not Underweight

Saturated Fat Does NOT Increase Mortality

Holiday Eating Without Guilt: Your Top 4 Go-To Party Foods

Foods That Prevent And Fight Cancer

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