Wellness Resources
Want to go beyond the basics? Learn more by visiting these trustworthy online resources, or e-mail me to get started on your personal journey to health and wellness.
+ Practical Wellness Links:?
Natural News: The NaturalNews Network is a non-profit collection of public education websites covering topics that empower individuals to make positive changes in their health, environmental sensitivity, consumer choices and informed skepticism.
Slow Food: Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is part of a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members in over 150 countries, which links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.
Local Harvest: The best organic food is what’s grown closest to you. Use our website to find farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.
Eat Wild: Your source for safe, healthy, natural and nutritious grass-fed beef, lamb, goats, bison, poultry, pork, dairy and other wild edibles.
Eat Well Guide: Eat Well Guide® is a free online directory for anyone in search of fresh, locally grown and sustainably produced food in the United States and Canada. The Guide’s thousands of listings include family farms, restaurants, farmers’ markets, grocery stores, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs, U-pick orchards and more.
Vital Choice: Vital Choice is a trusted source for fast home delivery of the world’s finest wild seafood and organic fare, harvested from healthy, well-managed wild fisheries and farms.
Living Without: Living Without is the magazine for people with allergies and food sensitivities.
Locavore: LOCAVORE is the easiest way to find local, in-season food.
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DIET & PYRAMID
+ Guides?
Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen – Shopper’s Guide to Pesticide in Produce
EWG’s All 48 Fruits and Vegetables with Pesticide Residue Data
Sustainable Seafood Guide (Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Guide)
Fish2Fork -The campaigning restaurant guide for people who want to eat fish – sustainably
EWG’s Skin Deep Cosmetics Database – safer personal and home products guide
+ Cooking Skills?
Jaime Oliver – Don’t know a thing about cooking. No problem Jaime Oliver’s has dozens of how-to cooking skills videos.
Cook for Good – Organic, sustainable and seasonal recipes with videos.
Cookus Interruptus – Local, organic, whole foods with recipe videos.
+ Professional Sites?
EPICURIOUS (great recipe resource)
ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
The Institute for Optimum Nutrition
Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine
+ Pregnancy Resources?
+ Self Care?
A Simple Way to Assess Your Self-Care
9 Reasons Practicing Self-Care Is Vital
Creating A Calming Personal Space
When Your Body Feels Like A Burden
Body Image Booster: Meditative Practices
Body Image Booster: Walking Meditation
An Exercise for Making Self-Care Dreams Into Daily Realities