Healthy Eating

Elimination Diet! What’s That?

Could food be causing your illness?

Many individuals struggle with unexplained health issues, such as rashes, irritable bowel syndrome, and autoimmune diseases, that often go undiagnosed despite initial medical tests.

Dr. Simmons explains how and why an elimination diet works.

Eliminating inflammatory foods from our diet for several weeks and slowly reintroducing them back can help us identify foods that we should permanently remove from our diet in order to help us be at our optimal health.

Diabetes & Prediabetes Are Reversible!

How can diabetes be reversed?

Diabetes and pre-diabetes are common chronic conditions with significant implications for health. However, they are potentially reversible, especially within the first year after diagnosis, through lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise.

Dr. Travis Simmons educates on the importance of working on what you’re eating and how you’re moving your body in order to reverse diabetes and prediabetes.

I Love Tacos! Don’t You?

Halloumi Tacos with Pineapple Salsa and Aji Verde

Halloumi Tacos with Pineapple Salsa and Aji Verde is another taco recipe that I love.  If you have never had Halloumi cheese, you are in for a real treat with this one.  Halloumi cheese is thought to have originated in Greece or Turkey, but has been around for centuries. 

Some Fats Are Good!

Healthy Fats

Fats are good! I repeat: fats are good! … some of them.

I’d like to give you an easy to understand summary of what to look for in foods to help you eat fewer bad fats and more healthy fats. You’ll see some common buzzwords in quotes.

Healthy Taco Tuesday!

Healthy fish tacos

Here is another favorite recipe in the Lessing home – it is a little more time intensive than some of our usual weeknight recipes, so it is a special treat when we have it on the menu.  This recipe is from Kate from the blog Cookie and Kate.

Favorite Food Books!

Healthy Food Selection

My favorite books in the last few years have all been about food. This is because I love to eat, I love to garden, and I wholeheartedly believe food is one of the top six most important determinants of our overall health (food, exercise, sleep, relationships, purpose, safety).

Spending Time In The Garden Is Healthy!

Dr. Lessing's berries growing in the garden

Gardening is a new hobby of mine, but I have always loved yard work.  As silly as it may seem, even going outside to pull weeds in my front yardscape makes me feel better because it allows me to pause and just be outside with my plants.

Done With My Board Exam!

heart, fitness, stress, nutrition

Hello all! I spent most of the week getting ready for my Family Medicine Board exam and spent most of Friday taking it. I feel quite confident I passed and will get the official word in a couple weeks.

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