I hope you enjoyed the sample menu and recipes from Your Body in Balance yesterday. 

As promised, here is an EXCLUSIVE excerpt from YBB. 

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Anti-Inflammatory Foods 

How could shifting to a plant-based diet be a mood-booster? One way may relate to inflammation. Let me explain: 
 
When you are stung by a bee, your skin turns red and swells. The same thing happens when you cut your hand. Your injury turns red, swells up, and …

I was blessed with the incredible opportunity to select recipes and menus for Dr. Neal Barnard’s new book, Your Body in Balance. 

Inside the book, you’ll find 65 recipes (breakfast, salads and starters, soups, sandwiches and wraps, lunch, main entrees, sides, and desserts) plus a delicious 14-day menu that includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 

In this post, I’m going to include a day of meals from the book beloq for you to sample. 

Preorder your copy …

When Dr. Barnard asked me if I would be interested in putting together recipes and menus for his next book, my answer was going to be “YES!” no matter what… 

Then as he started to tell me about the book and what kind of special recipes he would need for it, I found myself tearing up. “Thank you, thank you, thank you,” I said, “for writing this book.”

Admittedly periods and menstrual pain aren’t topics that get discussed …

Welcome to Part 2 :) I hope you're enjoying the science bits I'm throwing down from my new book, The Science of Weight Loss which is now available. 

Yesterday you learned that hunger can be a hormonally driven behavior, which means overeating is not necessarily a personal choice AND that the feeling of hunger can also be artificially stimulated by your thoughts and from environmental triggers (e.g., smelling food, seeing food). I also shared with you the five most …

I'm so excited to share a little 'sampler' from my new research book, The Science of Weight Loss. 

As many of you know, I struggled with overeating for years, so any research on what makes us eat beyond biological needs tends to grab my attention. Here were some of the more... provocative 'discoveries' I came across during my 4 years of research and writing. 

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Hunger can be a hormonally driven behavior, which means overeating …