Looking to Jumpstart Healthy Eating? Create a Healthy Meal Plan

There is a saying—If you fail to plan you’ve planned to fail.   I think this applies to healthy eating as well. To succeed at cleaning up your eating habits, it is important to create a healthy eating plan. Doing […]

Looking to Jumpstart Healthy Eating? Create a Healthy Meal Plan

There is a saying—If you fail to plan you’ve planned to fail.   I think this applies to healthy eating as well. To succeed at cleaning up your eating habits, it is important to create a healthy eating plan. Doing […]

Outdoor Activities My Family Enjoys – and Yours Can Too

One of the advantages of living healthy – eating clean food and engaging in physical activity – is you can enjoy all that nature has to offer. Come winter, while some families retreat into their blankets, my wife, Hayley, my […]

Five Nutritious, Delicious Paleo Dinners

Some have called the Paleo Diet the Caveman Diet, because it harkens to the foods our ancestors ate. That’s fair, but following this diet doesn’t mean you have to eat like a caveman. Many Paleo Diet recipes are thoroughly modern, […]

Warning signs of TMD and How to Treat It

Does your jaw, neck, and face hurt? Do you have pain when chewing? Does your jaw ever lock up or get stiff?   Do you have any one of these symptoms plus difficulty sleeping?   If so, you might be […]

The Sugar Sleep Connection

Sure, we all want sweet dreams. But ingesting processed sugar is not the way to get there.   In fact, sugar consumption interferes with sleep, which increases blood sugar levels. It’s a vicious cycle that is difficult to arrest. Instead, […]

How Nutrition Affects Your Sleep

When thinking about good nutrition, you may think of clean eating, weight loss, and exercise. But what about sleep? It is important to remember that all of our body’s systems are interrelated, and sleep is key to maintaining a healthy, […]

The Correlation Between Exercise and Sleep

It’s estimated that 70 million American adults suffer from some kind of sleep disorder. This is troubling because humans need sleep to survive. In fact, almost all animals do. In a 1989 University of Chicago study, rats that were fed […]

How to Cultivate Healthy Habits for National Women’s Health Week

Physical fitness is like saving for retirement: we all know the basic outline of what we should do, but we want a shortcut. We know it’s a lifelong process that can’t be accomplished all at once or with some silver […]