For most, the days of physical labor are gone and with it, many great opportunities to exercise. It’s hard to stay fit when you’re sitting at a computer all day. In our current sedentary work lives, it’s even more important for exercise and proper diets. The workplace contains all sorts of diet hazards. Zappos.com highlights 5 “fat traps” that we should all avoid: (more…)

What Do Your Food Cravings Really Mean?

Cravings can strike without notice or warning. You could be sitting around, minding your business when… BAM! Someone mentions doughnuts, ice cream, pasta or chips and suddenly you can’t focus on anything else. You’ve convinced yourself, you need these foods. (more…)

Today I’ll show you a great recipe for a scramble. It’s yummy, and you’ll love it. All you’ll need is your food processor for this recipe.

Love the Chicks Pate

1 cup almonds, dry
1/2 cup sunflower seeds, dry
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon turmeric (more…)

When my favorite coffee shop added rice milk to its ever growing thermoses to choose from, my thoughts turned to: if there are so many dairy and dairy substitutes out there, am I ingesting the one that’s best for me? In general, I’m not a dairy seeker. I generally have organic, hormone and antibiotic free whole milk. I have greek yogurt several times a week and will indulge in organic ice cream now and again. (more…)

You’ve heard us say it before, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Not only does it taste great, breakfast can help you lose weight too. I could go on about the benefits of breakfast, but recipes are so much tastier. I’d like to introduce Ani Phyo, our newest writer at beYOUmag.com. Ani is the host of the most popular uncooking show on YouTube. She’s also the author of the internationally acclaimed best seller “Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen: Delectable Living Food Recipes.”
-Greg Schnese

Every morning I start my day with a blended smoothie of some sort. Though I’m not much for caffeine, there’s definitely days where I need that extra pick me up. I’ll make sure to couple caffeine with Maca for Maca’s ability to rebuild my adrenals.

Some of you have been asking me what is CACAO? Cacao is raw whole dried cocoa. Usually the cocoa powders we buy at a store are roasted. So raw fooders use the term cacao when we talk about the raw whole cacao pod or beans. (more…)

If you’re not familiar with Alice Waters - investigate! Waters founded the famed Chez Panisse in Berkeley, CA in 1971 — a neighborhood bistro that paid homage to her food ethics: eat locally, seasonally and shop at farmers’ markets. This has been her credo long before all things got green. I was lucky enough to go to Chez Panisse in 1991 — great food experiences make for instant date recall — on the arm of a devoted Northern Californian foodie. His Mom was good friends with Alice and their family regularly ate there. (more…)

When I was asked to write about the Master Cleanse program, I was excited as many in my wellness and yoga community had and have done it on a regular basis. But interestingly enough, I personally have never done a liquid only, multi-day fast. I was always afraid that it would make me too weak to function, upset my stomach, or that I needed 2 weeks of solitude on an island just to fast. Which of course, the latter point was nowhere in my immediate future. So I asked around. (more…)

Dr. Steven Pratt came out with a book SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods that Will Change your Life awhile back. But when the book came out, it was at the same time that others were hitting the shelves extolling the virtues of salmon, yogurt and blueberries — namely Dr. Perricone’s famous anti-inflammatory skin diet. I checked them all out, yet at the time it felt like a fad. But in my ongoing quest to strive to ingest only whole foods and foods that actually nourish and help, I revisited Dr. Pratt’s book.

His book is still a great resource. He outlines with medical backing why each one of his SuperFoods - is well, super - and also includes recipes created by Golden Door’s chef, Michel Stroot. Here’s Dr. Pratt’s SuperFoods list: (more…)

According to a 5-month study by the Associated Press, antibiotics, sedatives, sex hormones and other prescription drugs were found in water supplies nationwide that serve at least 41 million Americans.

So, how did the drugs get into the water supplies? According to the reports, when people take the drugs, the body only absorbs what is needed, then the rest is flushed out or the system and down the toilet. Problem is, according to the study, water treatment plants aren’t designed to remove pharmaceutical residues, so they stay in the water. (more…)

Caffeine is extremely present in our instant fix society today. There are places (Astor Place in New York) where you can literally see, without turning your head, two or more Starbucks or other cafes. Nearly 52% of Americans over 18 years of age drink coffee every day.

Caffeine can creep into our diets in other ways too. Caffeine is a popular additive in weight loss pills. With all this caffeine around us, do we really know how it affects our bodies?

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