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Grounding While You Eat, A Game Changer For Your Digestion (+ Freebies)

Grounding, Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

Why does food always taste better at a picnic? Why does your morning coffee seem so much more satisfying when you take it outside to your front doorstep? Why do you never seem to feel the same heartburn or bloating or indigestion when you eat lunch outside on your lunch break instead of inside at your desk? Why is cooking dinner over an outdoor campfire or grill so much more fulfilling than cooking the same meal indoors? Grounding has a profound impact on your digestion, boosting your vagal tone (which supports the function of your entire digestive …

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Mar 9 2020

My Favorite Tips For Navigating Food & Drinks At Holiday Parties

Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

Holiday stress isn’t all just about juggling the social commitments, traveling or picking out just the right gift. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, alcohol, temptation everywhere, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. If there was ever a time that people worry about their weight, it’s during the holidays. How to navigate this tricky but wonderful time of comfort food, decadent desserts, and celebratory toasts galore? Today, I’ll tell you! It’s tricky to be around party foods… what if you want to stick …

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Dec 23 2019

How To Navigate Holiday Parties Without Regretting What You Eat (Or Drink)

Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Holiday stress isn’t all just about juggling the social commitments, traveling or picking out just the right gift. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, alcohol, temptation everywhere, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. If there was ever a time that people worry about their weight, it’s during the holidays. How to navigate this tricky but wonderful time of comfort food, decadent desserts, and celebratory toasts galore? Today, I’ll tell you! 1. Protecting your liver at holiday parties: Drinking wine occasionally has enjoyed …

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Nov 26 2018

Is It Better To Diet Or To Fast Intermittently?

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Two years ago I told you about a medical study that showed fasting for 13 hours (or more) overnight decreased breast cancer recurrence by more than one-third, which was awesome news. In that study, researchers found that not only did cancer recurrence rates drop, but also the longer the participants fasted at night, the lower their HbA1C levels fell as well. This begs the question — if fasting at night helps to lower HgA1C levels, could intermittent fasting help treat patients with Type 2 Diabetes? To answer this question, researchers conducted a new study specifically …

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Oct 8 2018

Yet Another Study Gives Survival Advantage To Overweight, Not Underweight

Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Well I thought this would be the perfect medical article to blog about this week, as many of us tuck into eating huge delicious Thanksgiving holiday meals! If you are going to eat, don’t make those calories laden with guilt and remorse and negative thinking. As you can read in one of my previous blog posts, fat shaming physically harms your health. Don’t allow shame over food choices or weight to ruin your well being. Release the negative thinking and just enjoy what you eat. To help with that, here is a recently published medical study …

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Nov 20 2017

What You Eat Is Making Your Anxiety Worse

Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Today I wanted to share some foods that are medically proven to worsen anxiety, and some foods found to help lift anxiety. Did you know treating anxiety actually adds years to your life span? More on that in a moment. But first, let’s not worsen or trigger your underlying anxiety with the wrong foods. Nutritional psychiatry is a real thing — using nutrition to treat mood disorders can transform your life and make huge shifts in your ability to function and even thrive, despite having a predisposition towards anxiety. Two foods that might be worsening your anxiety: …

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Jul 24 2017

Does Dairy Cause Acne?

Female Health, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

A new medical study takes a look at whether dairy is associated with acne in teens. I love love love skin and eagerly took three times the amount of dermatology training in medical school and internship than my classmates because I find skin so absolutely fascinating. More on that in a minute. But first, this study in particular peaked my interest because I am asked by patients all the time whether dairy is a trigger for acne. The Study (published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology in August 2016): Researchers looked at over 220 …

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Jun 26 2017

Grounding While You Eat, A Game Changer For Your Digestion (+ Freebies)

My Favorite Tips For Navigating Food & Drinks At Holiday Parties

How To Navigate Holiday Parties Without Regretting What You Eat (Or Drink)

Is It Better To Diet Or To Fast Intermittently?

Yet Another Study Gives Survival Advantage To Overweight, Not Underweight

What You Eat Is Making Your Anxiety Worse

Does Dairy Cause Acne?

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