by Lauren Slayton | Feb 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
Flipping through Fitness magazine an article entitled “Don’t Go There” drew me in. In the piece, the author recounts seeing a nutritionist who made some rather rigid suggestions. The women shares the nutritionist’s recommendations and her concern over sticking...
by Lauren Slayton | Feb 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
Nutrition confusion abounds. I’m often asked “what should I look for on a food package?” Aside from choosing fewer foods that come in packages I usually suggest looking at the ingredient list. It’s also easy to trust a publication or expert and get sucked into “best...
by Lauren Slayton | Feb 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
I am always intrigued by how experts resonate with people. Sometimes it’s warmth, I think of my friend/nutritionist Keri Glassman who has a fantastic smile and interest in people that comes across when she’s on TV or sitting at lunch. At times intellect does it, think...
by Lauren Slayton | Feb 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Every February our offices turn into a chocolate tasting lab. We try the unusual, we had truffles made with sorrel and matcha salt and chocolate with mushrooms. There were superfood chocolates and drinking chocolates all in the name of finding the best, healthy...
by Lauren Slayton | Feb 3, 2014 | Uncategorized
Mug via David’s Tea, mess behind this photo my own I’m in a warm drink phase that may be an adult food jag. I love matcha lattes made with almond milk. Then I discovered matcha cacao lattes (details in Thursday’s newsletter), I soon jazzed these up with...
by Lauren Slayton | Jan 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
We usually divide snacks into team salty and team sweet. I don’t know where that leaves my favorite salty-sweet. Regardless of the flavors you prefer, most of us like to crunch. In LBT, I explain that crunchy is stress relieving (provided of course we are crunching on...
