Compass Rose Nutrition & Wellness
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With Gaylene Gomez
Once those temperatures start to cool down as we move into the Fall months, most people rush off to grab their first Pumpkin Spice Latte of the season. Warm beverages are fantastic during the colder months, but many of these warm drinks can pack a ton of sugar in one cup.
Luckily, there are loads of healthy and immune-boosting warm drinks you can enjoy instead.
Here are a few of my favorite options to rotate through the chilly months...
We blinked, and it feels like summer vanished! Now it’s time for fabulous fall recipes that if you are like me, you wait all year to enjoy. While salads tend to dominate the summer scene, cooked vegetables bring us more comfort in the fall.
One of the best ways to enjoy your veggies as the temperatures cool down is to crank up your oven and roast them. It gives them a fantastic texture and flavor that tastes more decadent than any other cooking method, in my opinion. They're just delicious! Plus, they pair well with any main dish.
If you’ve ever tried and failed at roasting veggies – perhaps they were overdone, or some pieces were still raw – you’ve got to keep reading to make the best roasted vegetables to go with every meal. Even those big holiday meals can do with a presentation of perfectly-roasted vegetables.
You may have heard or seen this quote from Hippocrates: “all disease begins in the gut” . It’s said that he used those words thousands of years ago, and current research is finding there’s much truth in this ancient piece of wisdom.
If you think your intestinal tract is only responsible for digestion and waste elimination, think again… your gut also plays a big role in immune system function, the synthesis of essential nutrients, and balancing neurotransmitters important for brain and mood health.
It’s even been referred to as our second brain by experts in the health professional community. I find this stuff fascinating!
There’s no denying it… plastic has overrun our lives, and not in any way that is good - neither for the environment, nor for our health.
Plastics are literally everywhere, especially in all aspects of food storage: containers, plastic wrap, zipper bags, straws - and everything else imaginable!
If you know me personally, you may know I’m a scuba diver. If not… well now you know, and I’m super passionate about animals and our environment. Seeing plastic underwater is one of the saddest things you can imagine, because the poor animals just have no idea what it is, and don’t deserve to live in our wasteland.
Here’s WHY and HOW to ditch plastic… ASAP.
