Whether Steelhead, Coho, or Sockeye, This Salmon Salad is a “MUST TRY”. Phenomenal Health benefits from leafy greens: Anti-aging, cancer-prevention and healthier spleens*! Savory seasoning to suit your palate, if you like-a da’ spice, up you can dial it! Quinoa (“keen-wah”) is a healthy grain, It’s good for your waistline and packed with protein! Let’s keep this simple: Grill, bake or buy a cooked piece of salmon … Continue reading RECIPE: Salmon and Quinoa Salad
Need a protein-packed, vivacious, vitamin-rich, super-easy salad? Have I got the one for you! In less time than it takes you to remove your eye make-up, you can whip up this healthy dish! INGREDIENTS: 4 cups organic mixed greens, spinach and arugula (or greens of your choice) 1 avocado, diced 1 can organic garbanzo beans, rinsed and strained 1 can organic black beans, rinsed and strained 1/4 … Continue reading RECIPE: Greens & Beans Salad
Need to give your salad some girth without bulking up? Wild Rice is the perfect grain to making your salad more filling without packing on pounds in the process. Wild rice has twice the protein of brown rice, is high in fiber and essential minerals and vitamins. The arugula bring the benefits of leafy greens. It’s alkalinic and detoxifying, high in chlorophyll and antioxidants, and … Continue reading RECIPE: Wild Rice and Arugula Salad
A lot of us are motivated at the beginning of the year to make some big changes in our lives. Some of our vow every year to “get healthy” or “read more” or “remember people’s names”. While planning to be better and get healthier is great in theory, unless you have specific actions/steps you will take to follow through on these plans, chances are you’ll … Continue reading Get Clean this 2015! DETOX MEAL PLAN
I can get a little “salad fatigue”, especially in the winter months. A bowl of leafy greens, which I know I need, just doesn’t tempt me they was it does in the Spring. So I’ve created this warm, savory salad to deliver greens to my my bod, while tempting my (taste)buds! Farro (rhymes with “tomorrow”) is a super healthy, ancient, Italian whole grain with lots of … Continue reading RECIPE: Simple Farro Salad
Serves 4-6: Prep time: 10 minutes Ingredients: 4-6 cups arugula 1-2 cups chopped mushrooms (dealer’s choice of ‘shroom) 1 sleeve of organic gluten-free soba noodles 1 jar Annie’s Shiitake Dressing (this dressing is currently made with soy sauce with wheat in it, so you can use your favorite dressing or THIS YUMMY SAUCE instead, if you’re gluten-free) 1/4 -1/2 red onion chopped 1 heirloom tomato … Continue reading RECIPE: Healthy Asian Noodle Salad
Did you and your waistline survive the Fourth of July celebrating!? Time to jumpstart your healthy recovery week, right? The is the perfect in-a-rush-but-still-want-to-eat-something-healthy-lunch! It’s almost too simple to post. But I like to be reminded that life CAN BE SIMPLE. Things don’t have to always be a production. You don’t have to have a picture perfect menu/meal/offering. We eat to live and nourish, so … Continue reading RECIPE: Spinach Wraps
Whilst on my Wellness Retreat in Varenna, Italy, I confess, panne, pizza and gelato were regulars in my diet. However, I did have several insalata mistas, which typically consisted of raddichio, grated carrots and green lettuce. Simple and nutritious, but over time, my palate longed for something with a little more zip! Thankfully, across the street from our apartment was a small grocery store which carried fresh … Continue reading RECIPE: Beet and Arugula Salad
Looking for a fairly simple, hardy, healthy meal? This meal plan is a nod to my world’s best mother in law, who loves a good meat and potatoes meal. Lynne, this one’s for you! Meat: Local, grass-fed, hormone free beef (grill or bake for 15 minutes and slice), Potatoes: sweet potato discs, parsnip mashed potatoes, or stuffed eggplant and, of course Greens: (Because you should have them … Continue reading RECIPE: Healthy “Meat and Potatoes” Dinner
I generally think surveys and scoring systems are for people with a penchant for mathematics and the mundane . . . and for those who need to ‘get out’ more. But Whole Foods and health foodies alike are using the ANDI score, a numerical value which represents how nutrient rich a food is per calorie. This “Aggregate Nutritient Density Index” was developed by Dr Furhman*, … Continue reading RANT: ANDI Scores
Are you ready for something exceedingly easy to make, beautiful on your plate and super scrumptious!?! 1/4-1/2 pound of fresh lump crab meat 1 mango sliced or cubed (fresh is better, though I used canned) 1 avocado sliced/cubed Mixed all together and enjoy or stack in layers Drizzle with vinaigrette dressing if you so choose Would also be delish atop a bed of greens or … Continue reading RECIPE: Crab, Mango & Avocado Salad
As I kid, I remember my friend Kendall’s dad getting up super early on Saturdays to go a “farmer’s market”. I wasn’t’ familiar with this term or this place that was 40 miles away; and I certainly couldn’t fathom why someone would set an alarm to wake up before the sun, to drive an hour to this ‘farmer’s market’ just because they had ‘the best … Continue reading RULE: Shop Farmer’s Markets
I suffered (and still do) with annoying acne breaks outs most of my life I have tried birth control, antibiotics, topicals, retinA, regular facials, topical bat feces (just kidding, but I felt like I had tried everything!) Finally a Naturopath told me what I kinda’ already knew: Your skin is a filter and when the organs (liver, kidneys and bowels) that normally do your filtering (of … Continue reading RANT: Stop Skin Break Outs!
“Everything causes cancer” Have you heard or said this phrase? Yes Cancer is on the rise, despite millions of dollars of research, every year rates increase. Said differently, more people get cancer EVERY YEAR even though we raise money, run races, invent drugs, and wear pink ribbons. Funny how many of the products we buy with pink ribbons on them actually have cancer causing ingredients … Continue reading RANT: GBOMBS Fight Cancer
Dr. Maddy Day 