Strategies for Healthy Eating While Working from Home

Sharing a 30-minute presentation given to WBG on Strategies for Healthy Eating while Working from Home. Discover how to structure your time, control your environment, keep it simple, and optimize nutrition while working from home. Follow me on Instagram, @SimpsonNutrition.

Book Review: Food--What the Heck Should I Eat?, by Mark Hyman, MD

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Comprehensive, without being too overwhelming, Mark Hyman, MD, recommends a 10-day detox plan and then the Pegan Diet for life. The 13 pillars of the Pegan Diet include: (1) Stay away from sugar. (2) Eat mostly plants. (3) Easy on fruits. (4) Stay away from pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, and GMO foods. (5) Eat foods containing healthy fats. (6) Stay away from most vegetable, nut, and seed oils. (7) Avoid or limit dairy. (8) Think of meat and animal products as condiments. (9) Eat sustainably raised or harvested low-mercury fish. (10) Avoid gluten. (11) Eat gluten-free whole grains sparingly. (12) Eat beans only once in a while. (13) Get tested to personalize your approach. 

The book is chock full of research citations to support his plan. It is well-structured and nice if you want to jump around based on interests and issues. Read my full review, including key takeaways on LinkedIn.

Hyman, M. (2018). Food: What the heck should I eat? New York: Little, Brown and Company.

July Jump Rope Challenge

Are you jumping in July? Follow me on Instagram--@SimpsonNutrition--and check out the 31-day July Jump Rope Challenge highlight in my profile. Social media is a labor of love/hate. Seriously. I started with a daily jumping post, but I got sick of seeing it every day...so I switched to posting to my story and saving it as a highlight. For me, it isn't hard to remember to jump rope each day. What is difficult is remembering to ask someone to record me jumping--or for me to record a volunteer jumping. Anyway, special thanks to Julia for the Instagram tutorials, volunteering, and recording for several of the days.

4 Apps for Gluten Free

Navigating the world while on a gluten-free diet can be challenging; however, there are some great apps available to make it a lot less stressful. This article, Top 4 Apps to Navigate Gluten Free, reviews four of the most helpful apps--in order of must-have to may-want-to-try.

For more information on thriving while living with celiac disease and/or a gluten-free lifestyle, check out my other articles in the series: Do I Have Celiac Disease?, 3 Steps to a Gluten-Free Kitchen, and Eating Out Gluten Free. 

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Eating Out Gluten Free

Being able to eat outside of your own kitchen can be worrisome for those with celiac disease (CD) or non-celiac gluten sensitivity.

If you have CD or are choosing to live gluten free, this article, "Eating Out Gluten Free," gives you peace of mind. You’ll learn strategies to eat at any restaurant, examples of cuisines and safe bets, and how to manage eating in someone else’s kitchen.

This article is part three in a series of four articles on CD, providing practical steps to thrive while living gluten free. For more information, check out the other articles in the series: Do I Have Celiac Disease? and 3 Steps to a Gluten-Free Kitchen.

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3 Steps to a Gluten-Free Kitchen

If you have celiac disease (CD) or would like to live gluten free, creating a safe kitchen makes this process less stressful.

This how-to article delivers what you need to do to avoid gluten exposure. It is part two in a series of three articles, providing practical steps to survive and thrive in your own kitchen. 

Check out, 3 Steps to a Gluten-Free Kitchen!

Do I Have Celiac Disease?

The results came back--actually in November--and I was diagnosed officially with celiac disease. Bummer. The good news, however, is that I have been able to use this to become more informed as a nutritionist and to earn clinical nutrition hours.

Check out my first guest post, Do I Have Celiac Disease?