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by Sheila | Jul 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Join Dr. Chad Oler, ND and Sheila Robertson, Nutrition Coach
for a free, phone in, class on detoxification
Monday July 11th at 5:30pm
We are surrounded by toxins. We ALL have toxic burden due to the environment in which we live, the air we breathe, the food we eat and the medications that we take, etc. It is important to cleanse your system at least 4 times a year to eliminate toxins, cleanse your system and to increase energy. We will cover the essential steps in doing a healthy detoxification and give you a complete plan to use for your own 7 or 10 day detox.
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by Sheila | Jul 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
Hi! I hope everyone ate everything up from their first boxes! If you tried any delicious recipes please pass them along to us. If you thought you had some strange things in the last box, box #2 is going to be a great adventure. This week in your boxes you have a few familiar faces. You should recognize the salad turnips, chocolate mint and watercress from the first box, and then you should also be able to identify the snow and snap peas as well as the red head lettuce. The rest of the produce is a little less common; you have elderflower blossoms, lemon balm, milkweed buds, sorrel, romanesco leaves, kohlrabi and garlic scapes. Here’s some information about these crazy things, recipes and video below!!!
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by sheilaobb | Jun 28, 2011 | Uncategorized
Unfortunately, in today’s supermarkets it can be hard to tell healthy from unhealthy. Many products, especially those formulated for children, are packaged and marketed to appear healthy when in reality they are very much the opposite. Researchers from the Prevention Institute recently took a closer look at a list of 58 products marketed towards kids that were deemed healthy by the Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative. They looked at the total calories from fat, total calories from sugar, total grams of fiber, and sodium content of each product to determine whether or not it really was healthy. In the end, 49 of the 58 products were actually classified as unhealthy. Of those 58 so called healthy products, 95% contained added sugars, including high fructose corn syrup, 17% contained “no whole food ingredients” and only one product contained a green vegetable. I’m not sure what the original definition of healthy was, but it definitely doesn’t fit the picture I have.
Instead of basing your healthy decisions on packaging, go with what you know is healthy – real, whole, unprocessed foods. If it’s processed, if there are items on the ingredient list you don’t know or can’t pronounce, or if your grandma wouldn’t recognize it as a food, then it’s not food. And you don’t want to feed your family fake food. Here are some real life tips from some real life mamas on how to get your kids to eat healthy. (more…)
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by sheilaobb | Jun 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last night we had a cooking class at Whole Foods where we shared some yummy seasonal recipes. We decided to do this class to go along with the theme of the CSA Challenge, so we picked recipes that used ingredients many people are seeing at farmer’s markets right now or in their CSA boxes. In order to broaden your horizons, we also tried to pick ingredients that may be a little bit unusual for people. Using new or strange ingredients doesn’t have to make cooking complicated, and it shouldn’t be scary. It really helps to spice up your everyday meals while giving you needed nutritional variety. As usual our recipes reduce the most common food allergies, and the meals are balanced, beautiful, delicious and nutritious.
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by sheilaobb | Jun 17, 2011 | Uncategorized |
On Wednesday night, our first CSA boxes from Circle M Market Farm arrived! The anticipation was killing us; we were like kids on Christmas morning opening up our box! This year, along with your boxes of delicious fresh produce, we have a challenge for you: to use everything in your box. We know it can be hard to use something you’ve never heard of before (like lovage) or something you didn’t even know was edible (like nettles), and that is why we are here. Nutritionists to the rescue! We will be blogging about every box to help you identify what you’ve got, give you some great usage and storage information and pass along tons of yummy recipes, as well entertain you with a video of us getting excited about vegetables. For those of you who get a CSA box from a different farm or don’t get a CSA at all this blog and video still has useful information for you! Maybe your CSA sent you some of these items or maybe you saw some of these things at the farmer’s market; challenge yourself to try something you’ve never heard of or something you think you don’t like — you might be surprised.
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by sheilaobb | Jun 16, 2011 | Areas of Weight Loss Resistance, Natural Weight Loss, Uncategorized
- Lauranne Before the Optimal Body Balance Program…
Lauranne lost 17.1 pounds of fat and 19.5 inches!!! Wow!
- Lauranne After the Program!
“I came into this program knowing about eating fresh foods and staying away from processed foods. But I couldn’t lose fat and gain muscle, even with calorie reduction and exercise. OBB provided me the missing link to optimal nutrition. The program taught me about what foods to combine (and not), what specific foods my body does not digest and which ones are essential, and what I need to eat to bump up my 50-year-old metabolism. My energy level feels like I’m 35 and I can keep up with my toddler grandsons and not tire. I’ve tried other weight loss programs, and this one is the gold standard!”
–Lauranne Bailey
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by sheilaobb | Jun 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
What does the phrase “family dinner” mean to you? When I think of a family dinner, I think of the entire family sitting around the table, eating a home-cooked meal, uninterrupted. For many families, this rarely, if ever, happens. Instead the family dinner has morphed into something new and barely recognizable. Instead of eating around the table, families are eating on the couch in front of the TV, they are eating in the car or separately in their rooms. Instead of a home-cooked meal, they are eating take-out, delivery, fast food, frozen dinners or pre-made meals. Instead of an uninterrupted time to enjoy each others company, we are busy watching TV, texting, driving or pretty much anything else you could think of. The loss of the traditional family dinner is a very sad thing; it’s a loss of the celebration of good, real food and the people we love. But it can be reclaimed.
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by sheilaobb | Jun 8, 2011 | Natural Weight Loss
Losing weight as an individual can be next to impossible if you don’t have some sort of support group or guidance. Instead of going it alone, get your entire family in on the action. Recent studies have shown that households who decide to make healthy lifestyle changes together are much more successful in achieving their goals than individuals who try to do it alone.
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by sheilaobb | Jun 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
Join Dr. Chad Oler, Naturopathic Doctor and Sheila Robertson, Nutrition Coach on June 9th at 7:00 PM for a free, live, phone-in teleseminar.
Is your family ready for a challenge? Most families today are going-going-going from the moment they get up. It can seem almost impossible to create a healthy meal for you family, fit exercise in your schedule and just have some fun hanging out all together. Not to mention, many people today are confused about what good nutrition is. It’s overwhelming with new information out every day about what is healthy for you want what isn’t. On this call we will give you 10 simple steps to get your family on the right track and headed in the direction for making changes that will last a lifetime!
AAAAAnd we will be unveiling our new ‘Summer Family Challenge’. You will be the first to hear about the fantastic program AND be elegible for
On the call is Dr. Chad Oler of the Natural Path Health Center and Sheila Robertson, Program Director of Optimal Body Balance. We will allow plenty of time for your questions at the end of the call.
Pre-register on our website and ‘opt-in’ to be on the call…
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by sheilaobb | Jun 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
You may think I’m crazy, but these are actually good… Perfect for that insane amount of beets you have leftover from your garden at the end of the season. Just puree them all and freeze the puree and you have your cupcake base on hand!
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