Healthy Cooking Oils: Your Simple Guide

My mom recently emailed to ask me: What do you think about grapeseed oil for cooking? She might have created me, and she might be curious (the foundation of health), but my mom only recently read my book. Not surprisingly, she’s full of questions. My days are filled with my usual work–and replying to her emails. […]
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ERIKA’S PHOTO ALBUM: How a Nutrition Fiend Celebrates Halloween

  In my newsletter last week, I told warned you I would unleash my Halloween costume to the world next week. Well, next week is here, and I’m still coming down off the masquerade-exhilaration–I love dressing up! I celebrated at a party thrown by an old friend, and even convinced another dear friend to take the figurative red...
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What Kinds of Foods Do Goddesses Eat? Your Guide

In last week’s post, I promised I would share with you an easy-peezy guide to understanding how to identify foods that are the bedrock of The Goddess Lifestyle–an anti-inflammatory diet that’s chock full of nutrient-dense foods (read: awesome for weight loss and maintenance, vitality, disease prevention, hormone balancing,...
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Inflammation: The Root of Disease (and How Goddesses Prevent It)

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. —François de La Rochefoucauld In The Goddess Lifestyle, Goddesses eat a delicious anti-inflammatory diet. Why? Because inflammation is the root of disease. We Goddesses understand disease prevention lies in our hands, and on our plates, especially when we consider that modern disease...
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“Healthy”: What Does It Mean Anyway?

Unquestioned answers are more dangerous than unanswered questions. –Krishnamurti                           “I try to eat healthy.” Every time I hear that phrase (and that’s often) my nose detects the scent of a large smelly (albeit innocent) elephant looming somewhere in the room: such an […]
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