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5 Simple Strategies for Better Digestive Health

Hot enough for ya? Summer is, by far and away, my favourite time of year. I love spring flowers...

Glow! Eating for Radiant Skin

When we look in the mirror, it is our health that is reflected back to us on our faces....

Your Nutritional Tool Kit for Summer!

The summer sun is shining upon us and as you read this, I will be enjoying even fairer shores...

How to Eat, Drink and Be Happy! 5 Food Rules to Chart a Course to Better Health

This healthy eating stuff isn’t supposed to be hard. We have enough to worry about with bills, kids, deadlines,...

Bitter Foods for Better Digestion

A list of 10 delicious and easy-to-find bitter foods, plus helpful information about how bitter foods like argula improve...

Instarecipe! Apri-kale Blender Juice

It’s my first Insta-recipe!  You’re busy? I’m busy! I make food for busy people…busy doesn’t mean you can’t eat...

Big Announcement! Desiree’s First Book Coming Mid-2014

Hello Folks, It’s been quiet on the blog front the last few weeks because I have had something COOKING!...

Think wheat is making you sick? It might not be the gluten…but it could be IBS

Feel tired? Feel miserable? You might want to rethink the bread basket. Our carbaholic nation is taking a good...

Happy Earth Day! My thoughts on eating sustainably…

I live by a truly integrative approach to nutrition. It is not enough for me to search out the...

Five Easy Baby Steps Towards a Plant-based Diet

Even if you have no desire towards a vegetarian diet, heck - even if you live for steak -...

A Spoonful of Sugar…

I gave a talk last week on sugar in the North American diet and its effects on your health...

Ooh la la, Dukan (Book Review)

Do you Dukan? The Dukan Diet is not new but it is firmly entrenched in the fad diet merry-go-round...