Food & Nutrition

When I first started Healthy Crush, I had this vision that it was going to be the next big healthy recipe site. All I wanted was to do was come up with awesome healthy recipes, cook, take photos of food, and blog about it. To fuel this dream, I quit my 9-5, bought a fancy-pants [...]

I’ve been working for Dr. Frank Lipman for a week now. The experience has been, to say the least – awesome. I am learning so much! Dr. Lipman focuses a lot on nutrition and lifestyle as it relates to all kinds of health conditions, and learning from him is truly an incredible experience. One thing [...]

Are the foods you’re eating keeping you stuck in a never-ending cycle of dieting? There’s information out there that the food industry doesn’t want you to know. I just watched an interview on GaiamTV with filmmakers James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch (Hungry for Change). They shared the research they found when creating their documentary, [...]

Hi, friends! If you know me, you know how excited I get about raw chocolate. My love for it is borderline excessive at times. Especially around the holidays, when the general love for chocolate is thick in the air. Wheee! One of my all-time favorite brands of raw chocolate is Gnosis Chocolate. Vanessa Barg, founder [...]

King Corn is one of those documentaries that I’ve been hearing about for years. I remember people raving about it when I was in nutrition school, saying it was one of those “must-see” films about the food industry, but I never got around to actually watching it until now. When I saw that it was [...]

A few weeks ago I embarked on Dr. Frank Lipman’s Be Well Cleanse. It was a 14-day cleanse that focused on cutting out harmful foods and common irritants, and adding in some extra cleansing nutrients through shakes and supplements. In this post, I wrote about how I was looking forward most to cutting out caffeine, [...]