Mark Your Calenders

November 1st at 6:30 pm

New Glasgow Library

Mindful Nutrition is excited to host a screening of FORKS OVER KNIVES at the New Glasgow Library, November 1st at 6:30 pm. This film ”examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods. The major story line in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering yet under-appreciated researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.” www.forksoverknives.com The film highlights many of the findings from THE CHINA STUDY, the most comprehensive nutritional study to date, and clinical based research in nutritional healing. It will prove to be very thought provoking and inspiring. 

Annabelle Cameron, RHN will be happy to host a Q&A period after the screening.

Hope to see you there.

Happy Thanksgiving! I don't know about you, but I have so much to be thankful for: family, friends, blossoming business and good health. I wrote these words in the sand during a recent walk on one of the most beautiful beaches around- Melmerby. I am forever thankful to have such an amazing place to bask in the summer sun or walk its shores all year long.

Not all of us are farmers, so are not celebrating the harvest necessarily, but this is a time to stop and give thanks to the harvest of our lives. As we head into what is more like a new year to me than January, it is the perfect time to count our blessings and set our intentions for all that will come.

So what did you plant in this past year? Are you reaping the harvest now? Did you care for the soil, tend to it regularly? Did you savour all the flavours of your harvest, the bitter and the sweet? Are there things that you won't be planting again? These may seem like strange questions coming from a holistic nutrition consultant but I think they are exactly what needs to be asked. Our nutritional profile does not live in a bubble, it part of the fabric and foundation of our lives.

The practice of giving thanks before partaking in a meal is a great analogy here. Giving mindful presence to our lives is a tool for stress reduction. Stress is the underlying cause of most if not all imbalances in the body. Stopping, being present, being thankful lowers your stress response which has positive effects on how you digest and absorb your food. Stress lowers stomach acid significantly. This affects the top end of the digestive chain of events so all that follows is compromised.  Some of the results are heartburn, indigestion, constipation which all can lead to allergies, lowered immunity, weight gain and more. What better time to deploy this tool then as we sit before our next meal.

So give thanks today and everyday and absorb all that this life has to offer, on and off the plate.