Optimal Health & Wellness

When you're buying "100% Whole Wheat" be aware that.... 100% Whole Wheat as a description in a product, there is no guarantee that it’s made with all the fibre of the whole-grain intact. Health Canada allows companies to remove a fair bit of the fibre and still call their flour 100% whole wheat Having said this, whole grain products are far better for you and have all their fibre intact. They help keep blood sugars stable

Wishing everyone a very happy Thanksgiving! Eat lots of turkey and you will sleep well! Turkey has a high content of tryptophan, which converts to seritonin which then converts to melatonin and this helps you sleep :)

Prepare your meals ahead of time.... Take some extra time out of your week to prepare meals that can be made fast on days where you are busy and don’t have the time to cook. I’ll buy 3-5 lbs. of chicken breasts I'll marinate, season, and bake or grill all of them. When they cool, I bag 5 oz. per freezer baggy. In the freezer they go! Now I've got portioned cooked chicken ready to go. Now I can make a quick chicken vegetable soup or a chicken salad with avocado, or a chicken wrapit’s that easy! When you have meals prepared ahead of time, you will be prepared for that night after work when you have plans and don’t have the time to create your meal from scratch!

Wishing everyone a very happy and delicious Thanksgiving!

Vegetable Pasta Peel strips of raw zucchini and sauté in oil and garlic till tender. Top with warm pasta sauce and sprinkle with grated parmesan. Yummy! Try this with homemade meat balls :)

Improve digestion, stimulate your metabolism and boost your energy! Immediately upon waking each day, squeeze about 1/2 to 1 full lemon into an 8 oz glass of room temperature purified water. This is gentler on your body first thing in the morning compared to ice cold water. Make sure to use fresh organic lemons to make this drink, and not bottled lemon juice. You want to use fresh organic lemons

Wake Up Early, Slim Down! Those who spend time in natural light earlier in the day tend to have lower ratios of body fat. Morning light helps regulate the hormones involved in appetite control.

Controlling insulin secretion is the key to losing weight. And findings published in the May 16, 2007, Journal of the American Medical Association backs them up: Researchers from Children's Hospital Boston reported that people with elevated insulin levels were more likely to lose weight on a higher protein, lower carb diet, instead of a traditional low-calorie and high-carb diet. According to a study by scientists at the University of Munich (Erdmann et al., 2008), weighing j...ust 10 extra pounds can alter normal insulin function and set the stage for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. Eating chicken, fish and high fibre, non-starchy vegetables such as leafy greens, peppers, celery, carrots, cucumber, swiss chard, kale, spinach, romaine lettuce, leafy green lettuce, onions, parsley, broccoli, cauliflower and tomatoes and healthy grains such as quinoa, steel cut oats, brown rice and sweet potatoes (in moderation). See more

SOME GOOD BREAD CHOICES: Best Pita Pockets -Pita Break Flax or Multi Grain or Dempster’s Whole Grains 100% whole grain wheat pita pockets Bagels -PC Blue Menu, PC Thins and Weight Watcher’s Bagels English Muffins -PC Blue Menu, Great Value, & Weight Watcher’s Buns Pita Break Multi Grain 100 cal, OneBun, or Weight Watcher’s Multigrain Thin Roll or President’s Choice Multigrain Ciabatta Buns... In the freezer: Food For Life Ezekiel 4:9 sprouted breads - Cinnamon Raisin or Sprouted Whole Grain English Muffins. See more

One McDonald's Big Mac contains 540 calories, 29 grams of fat, and more than 40 grams of highly-processed, blood-sugar-spiking carbohydrates! This is pretty scary ;(