Category Archives: Nutrition

Prep Your Gut: Why Prebiotics are Essential to Overall Health

Probiotics has become a buzzword in the last few years. After making waves in the healthy living community, probiotics found their way into the mainstream, with products like Kombucha, sauerkraut, and kimchi readily available at local grocery stores. Despite the growing popularity of probiotics, the consumption of prebiotics remains relatively low. Many are completely unaware...
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4 Tricks to Manage Sugar Intake During Halloween

Halloween is such a fun and festive time for children. It’s their chance to live out a fantasy and dress like their favorite hero, cartoon character, historical or even ghoulish figure. However, with the night of dress up comes an evening filled with high sugar consumption and maybe even consistent unhealthy eating leading up to the...
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What is Mindfulness?

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is an innate human ability to be fully present, completely aware of where we are, what we’re doing, and the space we’re moving through without being overly reactive or overwhelmed by our surroundings. So often our mind jumps from thought to thought, we lose touch with our body, and we become...
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Minty March Madness By Michelle Schwarzmann

March Madness is down to the Final Four! Has your bracket been busted? If your initials are J.J., you picked 3 teams in the Final Four! Nice job, J.J.! Now for IET’s minty kind of madness…. I try to add herbs and spices to meals and smoothies whenever possible. They have natural health benefits, and a little goes...
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