Listen to this Podcast: Get a Rundown on How to Make Food Your Best Medicine

Start 2023 on an empowering note by giving yourself motivation on how to really make food your best medicine: Listen to the 32-minute podcast in which I and homeopathic practitioner host Ambika Wauters have a lively, thought-provoking conversation about this topic.

Based on our unique clinical and professional experiences, we discuss how the body has an amazing ability to heal itself. However, the self-healing potential of the body breaks down over time when we eat disease-contributing “food imposters” like refined vegetable oils, refined carbohydrates, and genetically modified foods sprayed with pesticides – as well as common problematic food ingredients we react to, such as gluten. Your will to steer clear of health-degrading junk food and to eat in a way that helps you thrive can break down from taking prescription medications.

Ambika and I shed light on the widespread censorship and misinformation happening today that is designed to push you toward a drug path as opposed to a food path for your health and to keep you from learning how to really make food your best medicine.

If you’re interested in nutrition counseling or coaching over the phone with me, please visit my Nutrition Services page and email me through that page.

Renew Your Health: Take Advantage of Nutrition Counseling Summer Special!

by Melissa Diane Smith

Would you like to revise your diet to use food as medicine to alleviate a chronic condition, to reverse many risk factors for heart disease, or to help you trim up so you can fit into your favorite swimsuit?

Maybe you need a pep talk to get back on track with your diet after you ate foods on your vacation that set your health back?

Or would you like to learn the tricks of the trade of how to take genetically modified foods out of what you eat? Or how to avoid gluten, grains, or sugar? Or how you can balance a few different types of therapeutic diets in the best way for you?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, now is the best time to consider hiring me for personal nutrition advice to help you meet your health goals. I love counseling with clients and providing them with personalized nutrition advice to improve their health and life, and the beginning of summer is considered a sacred time and often the perfect time to set new goals and get off to a fresh start. That’s why I thought now was the ideal time to launch a 20% discount ($140 instead of the normal price of $175) on my Get Started Combo (an Initial Phone Consultation and a Follow-Up for new clients) this summer. This is a limited-time only deal. Make sure to take advantage of it. The Summer Special will run through August 31, 2018.

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Going Primal for Valentine’s Day

Use simple whole-food ingredients to prepare a low-fuss romantic meal for two

Ask the Nutritionist

by Melissa Diane Smith

Q: My wife and I both follow a Paleo/Primal and we’re both very busy. We don’t eat out that often because we have trouble finding restaurants that serve hunter-gatherer-type meals. I’d like to surprise my wife this Valentine’s Day by serving a tasty Primal dinner at home. Have any suggestions on easy foods to make that we’d both enjoy? —Mike S., San Diego

A: How thoughtful of you! Your wife is going to love your surprise! Among the many great things about the Paleo/Primal Diet is that it’s easy to use a handful of quality, whole-food ingredients to prepare a decadent, gourmet-tasting dinner with little fuss. Grains and legumes take a lot of time to cook. By cutting out these ingredients, you can really cut down on the prep time.Just think about your wife’s preferences, and decide on red meat, poultry, or seafood. Then add some tastily prepared vegetables and a yummy, easy-to-fix dessert.

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Did You Know?

The Paleo and Primal eating plans both avoid grains and legumes, which drastically cuts down prep time.

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Photo Gallery of Resist! & Revitalize Our Communities Summit in Tucson

Enjoy browsing through this photo gallery of the Resist! & Revitalize Our Communities Summit focused on Problem-Solving Monsanto, GMOs, & Pesticides in Our Food and Environment on November 4, 2017, at the Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation Conference Center! For a larger image, click on the photo you’d like to see.

I was honored to give the introduction to the summit and to introduce each speaker and panelist. I’m pictured in photos #1, #3, #6, #14, and #15.

Many thanks to: Carey Gillam and Alexis Baden-Mayer for traveling to Tucson to participate in the Summit; to farmer Anne Loftfield of High Energy Agriculture, Jason Isenberg of REALM Environments, and Rick Frey, co-founder of ARBICO Organics for participating in the local panel discussion; to the core group members of Toxin-Free Pima County who planned and worked the event; to the sponsors and supporters of the Summit (see photo #18); and to everyone who attended!

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Local, National Action Against GMOs
& Pesticides the Focus of a Tucson Summit on November 4

Tucson, Arizona: October 17, 2017 – Agrichemical corporation Monsanto hasn’t been in Tucson headlines much since it dropped its bid for a tax incentive with the Pima County Board of Supervisors in February. But the company and its flagship weed killer Roundup have been under fire both nationally and internationally this year and will be in the spotlight again at an educational summit at the Conference Center at the Tucson Osteopathic Medicine Foundation, 3182 North Swan Road, in Tucson from 9 am to 3:30 pm on Saturday, November 4.

Organized by a group of concerned citizens known as Toxin-Free Pima County, the Resist! & Revitalize Our Communities Summit will reveal uncovered secrets about Monsanto’s tactics that propelled Roundup weed killer to be so widely used, along with actions that citizens can take to protect themselves against pesticides and genetically modified foods that Monsanto and other biotech corporations produce.

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Organic and Non-GMO, Simplified!

If you aren’t up to speed on these subjects, here’s a primer to get you better educated.

Ask the Nutritionist

by Melissa Diane Smith

Q: This is embarrassing, but I never really paid attention to whether food was organic or not, and why I should care. I also have no idea what the difference between organic and non-GMO food is. Can you fill me in on the basics? —Nancy B., Cincinnati

A: First of all, don’t be embarrassed. It’s not always easy to get the facts on these important topics, in large part because for more than two decades, information about dramatic changes in how our food is produced has been suppressed, and people have only been discovering the truth in bits and pieces.

“So many truths [about our food] have been whitewashed,” says Carey Gillam, a writer for US Right to Know and the author of the new book Whitewash. “By pouring more and more pesticides on crops, we’re getting less healthy soil, less healthy food, and potentially a range of carcinogenic and endocrine-disrupting chemicals in our breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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‘Stand Up Against GMOs & Pesticides’ Presentation, Film Showing and Food Tasting on October 7 in Tucson!

October is “Non-GMO Month,” dubbed that term in 2010 by the Non-GMO Project to increase awareness of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in our food and of how to shop non-GMO. And, boy, has awareness increased since that time! Today it’s common to turn on mainstream television and see ads by mainstream companies proudly announcing that their products – from Triscuits to Cheerios – are non-GMO. We are well into the tipping point of consumer rejection against GMOs in the United States!

Yet, while awareness about GM foods has dramatically increased, understanding of the widespread use of herbicides, particularly the use of glyphosate, found in Roundup weed killer, which goes hand in hand with GMOs isn’t nearly as far along. To kick off Non-GMO Month, Natural Grocers and Going Against GMOs author Melissa Diane Smith are teaming up to hold a special event about the hot-button issue of GMOs and pesticides from 11:30 am to 1 pm on Saturday, October 7, at Natural Grocers, 6320 N. Oracle Road. The event will feature an informative presentation by Smith followed by the first showing in Tucson of “Communities Rising,” a 48-minute film that focuses on the glyphosate problem and solutions to the problem that are taking place across the country. View a trailer for “Communities Rising” here.

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