Uncontrollable Sugar Cravings: A Holistic Approach to Stress
There is a very famous TED talk that suggests that stress is only bad for you if you believe it to be so. Now that is a very empowering idea.
And when my kids are nervous about a swim meet or an upcoming spelling test; or when I'm getting ready to speak in front of an audience, I think about this talk and I tell my kids and myself that the butterflies in our stomach, and our heart beating faster -- this is our amazing body getting ready to perform. And that we have to trust that it will perform brilliantly because we've prepared for that moment.
Uncontrollable Sugar Cravings: Why, oh why do I have them?
When I was little I loved watching Sesame Street and my favourite character was Cookie Monster. Years later, my infatuation for chocolate chip cookies fully matured, I often felt like it was only shame that kept me from demolishing a bag of Chips Ahoy with the same destructive flare as Cookie Monster.
The Antidote to Your Child's Sugar Hangover
It struck me this morning that children have hangovers too....
Sugar hangovers.
Yesterday was my daughter's birthday party. And whilst the menu was about as grain-free, refined sugar free as could possibly be, we all still had a healthy sugar overdose from the birthday cake, almond-meal chocolate chip cookies, popcorn and delicious date-sweetened pomegranate-lime juice.