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Eco-Friendly Bliss Bag

by jenny sansouci May 1, 2012
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In honor of Earth Day, my friends over at Bliss sent me a bag full of healthy goodies! I love getting fun stuff in the mail, and thought I’d take the chance to share my thoughts on each item in the bag with you. I think it’s important to be conscious and mindful about the [...]

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10 Easy Ways To Green Your Home

by jenny sansouci April 9, 2012
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This is the 3rd post in my Beautiful Change Challenge series. This post focuses on how to make beautiful changes in your home! Beautiful Change: Your Diet Beautiful Change: Your Beauty Routine Living in a more sustainable way – even making small changes around your home – can make a difference in the preservation and [...]

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Natural Egg Dyes

by jenny sansouci April 7, 2012
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Today as I was strolling through the farmer’s market in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I noticed a sign showing different natural foods that can be used as egg dyes for Easter. The guy working at the market caught me taking a picture of the sign and asked, “do you want the full list of natural egg dyes?” [...]

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Clearing Clutter: 2 Important Questions

by jenny sansouci April 6, 2012
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Spring is the season for clearing and renewal. Getting rid of the old, making room for the new. Clearing space. So many of us focus on “spring cleaning” at this time of year, and one of the best books I’ve read on the subject is Karen Kingston’s “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui.” I read [...]

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My Natural Beauty Routine

by jenny sansouci April 2, 2012
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This post is the second in my Beautiful Change Challenge series! Over the next few weeks I’ll be writing one post per week about how you can make beautiful changes in various areas of your life. This one focuses on healthy beauty products. (Read #1 on Foods for Beauty) A few months ago, I was [...]

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Bikram Challenge Update

by jenny sansouci March 30, 2012
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A few weeks ago I wrote about my friend Katelind – she had just started at 60 day Bikram yoga challenge! Well, now she’s about 25 days in and I have an update for you on how it’s going. Read the intro here. I’m so inspired and impressed by her!! Bikram is a type of [...]

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Healthy Travel Destinations

by jenny sansouci March 28, 2012
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In the spirit of travel this month, I thought I’d put together a list of some of the best destinations that cater to health and wellness. Personally, I love going on healthy retreats – yoga, meditation, delicious fresh food and beautiful surroundings….need I say more? If you’re into that kind of thing, here’s a great [...]

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Healthy Travel Snacks

by jenny sansouci March 28, 2012
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One thing I know about traveling – if you find yourself starving in an unknown area with no healthy food available, you’re way more likely to eat weird, random food that makes you feel kinda off. When you’re traveling, you want to feel great, right? For me, the solution is to bring snacks! Here are [...]

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Best Foods for Beauty

by jenny sansouci March 26, 2012
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This post is the first in my Beautiful Change Challenge series! Over the next 6 weeks I’ll be writing one post per week about how you can make beautiful changes in various areas of your life! This one focuses on my favorite aspect of a healthy, beautiful lifestyle – food, of course. Beauty is a [...]

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Manage PCOS Naturally: 5 Tips

by jenny sansouci March 25, 2012
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I’ve heard a bit about Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) here and there, and I know it’s a condition that many women struggle with. Through the IIN program, I connected with Amy Medling, the “PCOS Diva.” Since she’s an expert in this area, I brought her on board as a guest blogger to tell you what [...]

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Symptoms of Gluten Intolerance

by jenny sansouci March 21, 2012
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I rarely eat gluten. Not because I have a gluten allergy or I necessarily think I’m gluten intolerant (I’ve never gotten tested or done enough experimenting to know for sure). In general, I just feel better without it. It makes me feel sluggish, and sometimes it’s like I can actually feel it converting to sugar [...]

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathons

by jenny sansouci March 20, 2012
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I did a marathon once. Ok, I walked it, but still. I walked the Walt Disney World Marathon, back in 2005 with my mom and sister. Ever since, I’ve considered running a half marathon or just training for something in general, but I haven’t committed. I know one thing -  if and when I do [...]

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Most Toxic Food Ingredients

by jenny sansouci March 16, 2012
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Normally I don’t like to write scare-posts, meaning – “stay away from this!!!” Instead, I like to shed light on the positive side to a healthy lifestyle. However, the other day while I was visiting the Naked Cafe in San Diego, I picked up a copy of the San Diego Healthy Times newspaper. On the [...]

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Healthy LA Guide

by jenny sansouci March 10, 2012
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I stayed in LA for just a week and I did an INSANE amount of healthy things! When I planned my trip out to Los Angeles, there were a couple of things I knew I absolutely had to do based on what LA friends had told me – namely Cafe Gratitude and Runyon Canyon. The [...]

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Bikram Yoga Challenge Intro

by jenny sansouci March 8, 2012
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Let me tell you a little story. About 2 weeks ago, I got an email from my friend Katelind Root, suggesting we get together to catch up. Right after I read the email, I headed to yoga class – and there she was, in the same class as me! OK, fun coincidence. Then, the next [...]

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The Physiology of Addiction

by jenny sansouci March 6, 2012
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Ooh! This is such a juicy topic. Julia Ross, author of The Diet Cure, was another one of our incredible speakers at Mega IIN. Her talk was on the physiology of addiction, which I find absolutely fascinating. Since nixing sugar was the common thread of all of our speakers over the weekend at the conference, [...]

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Mark Sisson – Primal Nutrition

by jenny sansouci March 6, 2012
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A few weeks ago I wrote about the Paleo Diet. I’ve been hearing so much lately about the concept of primal nutrition, and I heard about it once again over the weekend at the Mega IIN Conference! Mark Sisson, author of The Primal Blueprint, came to the conference to give us an overview of his [...]

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Junk Foods and Junk Moods

by jenny sansouci March 1, 2012
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One of the coolest things about the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, in my opinion, is how many different career paths the graduates take. We get trained to be health coaches, but we also get tons of business training to create the career of our dreams, whatever that may look like. IIN grads are coaching, teaching [...]

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