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Could Your Migraines Be From What You’re Eating?

I’m very excited to share a testimonial from my client who ended her lifelong migraines by doing the MRT food sensitivity testing together with LEAP dietary management protocols. She is a smart, successful, 29-year old attorney, but without the MRT test results it would have been almost impossible to deduce that one of her main [...]

Chronic Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)? Cranberry May Be Your Cure.

Some people seem to get one UTI after another. They take a round of antibiotics, then a few months later, they are on them again. Isn’t there another option rather than taking so many antibiotics over and over? Sure. Cranberries. Cranberries contain an ingredient, D-mannose, that makes the lining of the bladder and urethra too [...]

Worldwide Demand for Quinoa Up Threefold

Quinoa (pronounced “keen-wah”), the mother grain of the Incas, has become the darling of the foodie and health-nut world. Deliciously nutty, quinoa is the only grain that is a complete protein, perhaps because it’s more of a seed than an actual grain, even though we use it like a grain. Naturally gluten-free, quinoa flour offers [...]

Salicylate Sensitivity and Psoriasis

In my work creating customized anti-inflammatory diets, one of the trickiest sensitivities to deal with is salicylate sensitivity. When salicylates show high in the Mediator Release Test (MRT), it translates to an exhaustive analysis of every food before deeming it safe to it for that person. Salicylates sensitivity is near impossible to identify without such [...]

GMO A-go-go

In case we’ve become complacent about GMOs in our food supply, here’s a cute, satirical cartoon to remind us just what GMOs are all about. ©2013 Effortless Eating. All Rights Reserved.. No related posts.

Diet Fads Through the Ages

Fad diets drive me crazy. Mostly because they have very little to do with achieving health. CNN posted an entertaining look at diets through history beginning with Lord Byron’s vinegar-and-water diet in the 1820s, touching on the memorable grapefruit and cabbage soup fazes of the mid-twentieth century, and going full steam into the Scarsdale diet [...]

Glorious One-Pot Meals in a 2.75-quart Dutch oven

Reader question: Hi Elizabeth, I like Staub brand dutch ovens and wanted to purchase a smaller size. The small size Staub Dutch Oven is  a 2.75  quart . Would I need to make recipe or cooking time adjustments for that .75 extra quart size? I was planning to follow the recipes for serving 2 people [...]

What you can learn from the color of your poop.

Besides watching the consistency of your poop with the Bristol Stool Chart to assess your state of health, the color of your stool can tell you a lot as well. Assessing your stool over a few days time can help you to get a better sense of if the color is related to what you [...]

Everyday Shea Body Wash

Not only do I love the lotion from Everyday Shea, but I love their story, too. Now that I’ve tried their body wash, I’m hooked. Everyday Shea uses fair trade shea butter, coconut oil, and essential oils to create luxuriously moisturizing skin products without any of the harsh chemicals or ingredients found in mainstream skin [...]

The Perils of Valentine’s Day for Sensitive Kids

While Valentine’s Day has never been my favorite holiday – too many high expectations that require others to do their part to fulfill – now I positively dread it because the amount of candy offered to kids rivals that of Halloween. And it’s all red. Red food dye is a nightmare for us because it [...]