Checklist to Stay Health This Summer Summertime can be a time which inspires you to be your most active, your most healthy – or it can turn into the time when you hole up in air conditioning, skip your yoga classes, and live off of a diet of ice cream and mojitos (hey, that mint in there has to count …
Summer Fresh Recipe: Raw Zucchini ‘Pasta’ with Creamy Sunflower Seed Sauce
Sometimes in the summer you really crave pasta – but honestly, who wants to slave over a hot stove, cooking in the heat of the season? There comes a point in the summer when someone you know will probably have a ridiculous abundance of zucchini from their garden that they would love to give you. If not, check out your …
Summer Eating
Fresh Foods of Summer Summer foods are like a gift from nature, a celebration of tastes, colors, and textures straight from nature’s abundance. Summertime eating should, and can be, no-fuss, no-muss, as the majority of your foods in the hot summer months can be enjoyed raw for delicious flavor and powerful cleansing. Before we get to all of the great …
Deconstruct: Pause and Question What’s Going On and Into Your Body
Maybe spring cleaning this year should include our lifestyle. Our minds, like our homes, can get cluttered with old ideas, old emotions and old habits. We weed our gardens regularly–why not ourselves? Routine cleaning will sweep out energy that no longer serves you and let some positive growth in. +pause and question +rest your system with a seasonal cleanse +peel …
Spring is Here! Time for Your Seasonal Cleanse
You know you want to. You know you need to. You’ve been considering it – here’s your opportunity to get motivated. Think about it – why is it that many of us seem to take better care of our cars than we do our own bodies? We understand that every few months, we need to get our oil changed in our car to keep …
Preventative Skin Care
You’re only as old as you feel. It’s true. But, even if you feel young, your skin will eventually show signs of aging. Lucky for you, it’s never too late to start taking care of your skin. You can’t stop the aging process, but you can slow it down, prevent lines and wrinkles, and help your skin be the great …
Pathway Fit Genetic Test: How Science Can Inforn Your Nutrition Plan
You remember this from high school, right? Genes contain DNA, which instruct protein formation. Proteins come together to build every single unique part of you. Well, you’re not a completely unique snowflake. We all have the basically the same parts. Genetically speaking, we’re about 90% the same. Only about 10% of our DNA contains the blueprint that effects our different …
How to Diet Right
We’ve all been there. Most of us have felt frumpy, flabby, fleshy or just plain funky. Especially after chowing down on holiday parties on everything from cheesy fondue, to pigs in blankets, to cookies and pretzels, and everything and more dipped in chocolate. I get a sugar rush just thinking about it. It’s okay to pig out from time to …
Detoxify
Toxins are everywhere. They’re in our air, water, soil, food, and therefore, in our bodies. Heavy metals from car exhaust, fertilizers, and phthalates leaching out from plastics are just a few of the things that have been shown to cause all sorts of disorders. The good news is our bodies are built to deal with toxins. Our livers, kidneys, lungs, …
Transformation can happen in 60 days. Where do you want to be come March?
In 60 days, we can get you back on your journey to be the beautiful, healthy being you were meant to be. writing assignment At Root, we view our journey toward health as a marathon, not a sprint. True transformation and life-long change begins first with this awareness and gentle guidance to get you there. We invite you to join us on …
The Wrong Way to Diet
Maybe you’ve heard the news from The Times in Tara Parker-Popes article, The Fat Trap: sometimes after losing weight, our bodies fight against us and we gain every lost pound back. It’s not because we’ve offended our bodies, but if we’ve lost weight quickly, we might have tricked them into thinking we’re starving. Crash diets don’t work. Deep down, you …
Fabulous Fennel
professional essay This winter, don’t get down in the root vegetable doldrums. There are so many wonderful things you can do with seasonal winter produce that are not only nutrient rich, but delicious too. The trick to all-year exciting eating is avoiding getting stuck in old habits. Don’t buy the same things all the time. Be bold: pick up a …