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May is the month we finally say goodbye to the last chill of winter and welcome in flowers, sunshine, and the first signs of summer. We rounded up a list of our seven favorite things to help you celebrate this joyful season. We hope you have your healthiest, happiest May yet!
Eating disorders are life-threatening illnesses that impact millions of people every year. They include anorexia (self-starvation and excessive weight loss), bulimia (cycling between binge eating and purging), binge eating disorder (recurring binging), and even atypical disorders such as orthorexia (obsession with a specific way of eating).
In recognition of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, we are reviewing the work of Integrative Nutrition visiting teacher Geneen Roth, a pioneer in helping heal emotional eating for thousands of women.
In her teaching and books, Roth says that she’s gained and lost over a thousand pounds from years of fad dieting and then breaking her restrictive eating patterns. One day, she decided to just stop dieting, yo-yoing between being dangerously underweight and dangerously overweight, and just eat whatever she wanted by making conscious choices and asking her body what it wanted. Once she started trusting her body, she found her ideal size without effort.
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For many who are focused on making New Year’s resolutions happen, it’s around this time that the once steely-willed resolvers start to falter, especially when it comes to the less tangible goals such as love and happiness. While it can seem easier to accomplish the material goals of bigger, better, and more, how do you accomplish inner peace?
The truth is that the more you look outside yourself for happiness, the less satisfied you feel. Happiness is an inner game, but creating that sense of peace can be easier said than done.
Enter May Cause Miracles, a 40-day guidebook to creating happiness by becoming more “miracle minded.” The third book and New York Times bestseller by life coach and author Gabrielle Bernstein is a guided journey to help readers cultivate inner peace and happiness.
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We’ve all known someone who has been affected by cancer. Though there are many aspects of this terrible disease that still remain a tragic mystery, thankfully researchers now know that many forms of cancer can be prevented simply by eating whole foods, exercising regularly, and making healthy lifestyle choices. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a great time to learn and empower all of us to take charge of our own health and adopt habits conducive to a long, happy life.
But what if you or someone you love has already been diagnosed with the “Big C”? Are there any ways you can take matters into your own hands? That’s exactly what Integrative Nutrition graduates Annette Ramke, Class of 2010, and Kendall Scott, Class of 2009, did when the they were diagnosed with cancer. Kendall is a Hodgkin’s Lymphoma survivor diagnosed at age 27, and Annettte survived breast and ovarian cancer, with her first diagnosis at 36. Together they’ve just released Kicking Cancer in the Kitchen, an inspiring cookbook and guide designed to help people not only survive, but thrive, during cancer – from diagnosis through intense treatment and beyond.
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When it comes to family-friendly, nutritious meal ideas and general tips for healthy eating, there’s an abundance of available resources. While this increased awareness is a step in the right direction, information overload can easily become a hurdle to your family’s health.
That’s where Integrative Nutrition graduate Nina Manolson steps in. Nina, a Smokin’ Hot Mom, is a Health Coach and family wellness expert. Her mission is to support readers and clients by cultivating a positive environment for nutritious meals, starting in the home. Nina participated in our 60-Day Challenge, which invited students and graduates to set and achieve big goals in only two months. She inspires us in this video recap, sharing her decision to write the book she’d been dreaming about for years.
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In 2009, IIN graduate Jared Koch created the essential restaurant guide for health-conscious New Yorkers, Clean Plates NYC. Since then, Clean Plates has turned into a spirited movement, supporting chefs and other food purveyors offering healthy, local, sustainable food.
Clean Plates is now available in updated print versions for 2012 – Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles.
If you are digitally inclined, on the go, or visiting one of these cities* for the first time, be sure to download the free Clean Plates App!
The App is feature-rich and user-friendly.
The first time you load the App, you have the option to subscribe to Clean Plates’ email updates, which feature not only restaurants, but also valuable nutrition and wellness content.
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Millions of women are trapped in a cycle of yo-yo dieting and exercising, exhausted and dissatisfied with their physical and emotional health. Their efforts aren’t producing the positive results they hoped for, and it’s time to consider a holistic approach to health.
That’s where Health Coach Lisa Cummings steps in. “The Slim and Sexy Mom’s Expert” recently released her first book, From Okay to Fabulous, which provides readers with the tools to live a longer, healthier, and more fulfilling life.
Her personal suffering, including a rollercoaster of starving, overeating, and over-exercising, started at the age of 13. Twenty years later, she decided to make a permanent change in her life. She left her unfulfilling career in Advertising and enrolled in the Health Coach Training Program at Integrative Nutrition.
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Millions of Americans are overweight, wanting to shed extra pounds in order to look and feel better, but find themselves struggling with their weight loss efforts due to serious sugar addiction.
Connie Bennett, IIN graduate and best-selling author of Sugar Shock, has released another book, Beyond Sugar Shock, which details a 6-week plan to help readers break free of sugar addiction and create a life that’s sweeter, more delicious, and more fulfilling than any sugar-laden treats. Connie describes this new life as “sweeterlicious”.
Connie reveals the truth behind sugar addiction, including her own personal experience, explaining that most sugar addicts are entrapped in negative thought patterns. They focus more on body image than the actual mental processes that lead to unhealthy food choices in the first place.
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As you probably know, obesity and type 2 diabetes—two diseases that go hand in hand—have become major global epidemics. Recent estimates predict that by the year 2030, over half of American adults will be obese and 552 million people will struggle with diabetes.
The statistics look grim, but is there anything we can do? As it turns out, there’s hope after all. In his new book, The Blood Sugar Solution, renowned physician and IIN visiting teacher Dr. Mark Hyman offers an encouraging answer for the dual-pronged problem of obesity and insulin resistant diabetes, which Hyman refers to as “diabesity.”
Diabesity may have a tight grip on the world’s population, but Hyman offers some good news: the condition is highly preventable, treatable, and often reversible. The Blood Sugar Solution provides a personal plan that breaks through myths and misconceptions about diabesity, and lays out seven key steps to preventing, treating and reversing both diseases by dealing with the underlying causes.
The eight-week plan is designed to reboot the metabolism, foster weight loss, and essentially reverse type 2 diabetes. According to Hyman, additional benefits may include reduced blood pressure, increased energy, the elimination of joint and muscle pain, improved sleep, and an overall better mood and outlook.
If you just use your phone to make calls and play Angry Birds, you could be missing out on some great new tools to help you live a healthy, happy life! If you liked our previous posts, 23 Apps for Health & Happiness and More Apps for Your Health & Happiness, you're sure to love our latest list of IIN-approved apps!
Clean Plates - iPhone
Find your next healthy, sustainable restaurant pick with this app! Browse for organic meats, vegan or vegetarian fare, gluten-free options, and naturally sweetened desserts, alongside more standard restaurant filters, like price and ambiance. We're so excited about this app version of 2005 graduate Jared Koch's essential guide to New York dining, Clean Plates! Currently, only restaurants in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles are included in the search, but we'll update when the app expands! (FREE)
inBloom - iPhone
Like to buy organic? Or gluten-free? Paleo-friendly, raw, or local? This customizable app will help you find food to suit your dietary and environmental preferences, whatever they are! Based on your location, the app can direct you to the nearest of any of its hundreds of listed farmers markets, grocery stores, CSAs, green hotels, biodiesel and electric charging stations, green supply stores, and clothing stores. Finding your favorite sustainable products will be a piece of organic cake. (FREE)
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