Life in Balance Blog

This is me, your health guru, giving you permission to have cookies for breakfast! Now before you tsk tsk at me, just take a look at the fiber and protein in these babies: oats, walnuts, yogurt, egg, flax, dates, apricots and go ahead and buy a bag of almond flour to up the protein even more! Did you notice there’s only ½ cup of brown sugar in this recipe?? That barely qualifies this to be a "cookie" but just trust all the other delicious ingredients to carry the banner. 2

Green leafy vegetables are the Rock Stars of the vegetable kingdom! Now hear me when I say this – ALL vegetables are good! Eat the rainbow! But green leafys are the superstars because per calorie they have the most vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, antioxidants and fiber than any other vegetable. More bang for your buck, as they say. So much so, that at the last 2 wellness conferences that I attended, there were speakers/experts who said the same thing: it’s more import

Nuts and seeds are mother nature’s perfect snack food. They have all the macronutrients: protein, healthy fats, complex carbohydrates, plus fiber, all in one tight little package. And they travel so well! Keep them in your desk drawer, golf bag, car console, purse or fanny pack for when your energy starts to dip or you’re feeling a little peckish. One handful will tame that nagging hunger or flagging energy and allow you to make it home to fix a decent dinner instead of swi

I’ll turn 70 in a couple of months, and I’ve said for a long time now that I want to live well into my 90’s; “Rockin’ on my front porch snappin’ pole beans.” This is an image of my grandma in Tennessee I’ve held onto since my childhood. That’s my vision I have for myself too - keeping it simple and keeping on with things. So that’s the backstory to an aha moment I had the other day. On one of my sporadic morning walks, I allowed myself to contemplate this vision in a very de

Healthy doesn’t have to be hard. It used to be so easy. Take fruits, for example: summer was watermelon seed spitting contests and fuzzy...