Tips for Eating Healthy During the Holidays
The holiday season is a time to celebrate with family and friends. Unfortunately, for many it also becomes a time for over-eating, stress and weight gain. The holidays don’t have to mean eating too much, overdoing it on unhealthy food or gaining weight. In this podcast, Dr. Nina Walsh discusses tips for eating healthy during the holiday season.
The Bad News for Bacon
An international panel of experts convened by the World Health Organization concluded that eating processed meat like hot dogs, ham and bacon raises the risk of colon cancer and that consuming other red meats “probably” raises the risk as well. The report could give people more reason to moderate their intake of processed meat.
Making Your Diet Personal
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), food is viewed as medicine and is used to nourish and harmonize the body, mind, and spirit. All foods have a distinct energy and characteristic properties that either help to balance our bodies and make us healthy, or that create imbalances which ultimately result in sickness. In this podcast, Dr. Nina Walsh discusses how food energetics, combined with a seasonal approach to planning our diet, can help strengthen our immune system and improve our health.
Wired for Late Night Snacking
Can’t resist a late night snack? New research shows why you might find it hard to avoid the temptation. A recent study shows that the way our brain processes the satisfaction we get from eating changes depending on the time of day. Thus, in a sense, we are “wired” to snack. Find out how this process works and what you can do to counteract it.