Chickpeas, sometimes known as garbanzo beans, are a good source of protein, carbohydrates, and fiber. They are a great addition to soups, throwing it in a bean salad, mashing them to make some falafel — or like the title of this post, make hummus!
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4 Reasons to Start Holistic Nutrition
Better Weight Management than regular dieting
Holistic nutrition allows you to stop dieting and start living. Using an individualized strategy including diet, supplements and lifestyle changes will ease you into a healthier lifestyle. A lifestyle approach that incorporates each individual’s likes, dislikes and way of life is the best way to take the weight off and keep it off. Sometimes hormone balancing and food allergy solutions are also necessary.
Stress and Fatigue
Holistic Nutrition helps minimize the effects of busy lifestyles wreak havoc with our bodies. Learning to support your body by feeding it the nutrients necessary for a healthy nervous system, allows you to get the most out of life!
Digestive Troubles
Prescription and over the counter medications only mask medical symptoms, and do not resolve the cause of the problem. Relief can be obtained with the help of some simple holistic changes to the diet and way of eating, along with some very effective food-based supplements aimed at promoting healing of the whole digestive system.
Health Conscious
A good holistic nutritionist would help you weed out the good sources of information from the unreliable. A thorough nutritional and lifestyle assessment is used to pinpoint areas of imbalance, and recommendations for changes in diet, supplements and lifestyle are aimed at achieving balance.
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Introduction to Holistic Nutrition
What is Holistic Nutrition?
Our bodies are constantly exposed to toxins, whether in the food we eat or the air we breathe. Individuals don’t realize how nutrient-deprived they are or how often the major organs suffer from toxic overload. The symptoms of not feeling optimal are the body’s way of telling us that balance needs to be restored. The holistic approach to nutrition looks at these symptoms in order to determine the underlying cause. The cause of these symptoms is what holistic nutrition works to correct.
Holistic nutrition focuses on the consumption of natural, wholesome foods and the elimination of toxins from our bodies. The deficiencies and imbalances suffered by our bodies are addressed through changes in diet, supplementation and other positive lifestyle changes. Since the root cause of many symptoms is often nutrition related, once the body is provided with a strong nutritional foundation, it often heals itself.
What is the difference between a Holistic Nutritionist and a Dietitian?
Both believe that nutrition plays an essential role in overall health, but a holistic nutritionist works on the body as a whole. A dietitian generally provides nutritional advice solely as it relates to a medical diagnosis, even though some people experience different symptoms with the same disease. With a holistic nutritionist, consultations are based on individual symptoms and imbalances.
Classic Quinoa
In our honest opinion, Quinoa is the best alternative to its many competitors, especially white rice. The herbaceous annual plant can run circles around rice with its unbeatable benefits. This post is all about how to cook some classic quinoa, and why its one of the world’s most popular health foods!