Food as Self-Care

When we talk about “eating right”, we’re not talking about restrictive diets or food-shaming. For us, eating right is all about self-care.

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Journal Articles for Your Black History Month Bulletin Board

With Black History Month right around the corner, we've pulled together some journal articles pertinent to Black folks’ wellness and resilience for you to hang on your bulletin board.

Your Eating Decision Maze (part 4): Becoming the Architect

For all of January, we’ve talked about how you can embody that new year, new you vibe. How do you maintain progress toward your New Year resolutions in 2021, especially with all that’s going on in the world?

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Your Eating Decision Maze (part 3): Name Your Walls

If you’re struggling to change eating habits, it’s probably because your walls/barriers are blocking the options you want to take advantage of.

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Your Eating Decision Maze (part 2): Setting You Up For Achievable Dietary Resolutions

We’re still squarely in our “New Year New You” mindset where we ambitiously set dietary resolutions for 2021. Shoot, alliteration be darned, I’m personally on that “New Year New Me” vibe all month (even if it feels like only a few weeks ago that we all celebrated “happy new year 2020)!

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Goals for 2021: Your Eating Decision Maze (part 1)

We’re giving new year, new you vibes as you set your health and wellness goals for 2021. Here’s a guide to reaching your dietary resolutions.

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Vitamin D and Acute Respiratory Infections

With national COVID-19 surges and the onset of flu season, it’s more important than ever to learn how to protect yourself. As your only host defense, your immune system is incredibly important. Its cells, antibodies and protein signals (cytokines) are our best shot at preventing viral infections and limiting complications if we are infected. It turns out that vitamin D is one of the chemicals our immune system needs to strengthen itself. This is an especially important topic for Black Americans because brown skin has a harder time converting the sun into vitamin D.

Learn more in our low-commitment 14-day Lower The Load course

Strengthening Your Immune System- Not Scientifically Possible?

With national COVID-19 surges and the onset of flu season, there are a bunch of complicated terms floating around online like active immunity and passive immunity (also known as innate and adaptive immunity). Then there are all the immune-booster claims that are simply not scientifically possible.

Learn more in our low-commitment 14-day Lower The Load course

4 Components of a Well-Balanced Thanksgiving Meal and Leftovers

The 8 recipes in our Share & Savor course can be mixed and matched in so many ways to build a well-balanced meals from the leftovers of your healthy thanksgiving recipes.

8 Easy Recipes: Make-Ahead Thanksgiving Sides

In our Share & Savor Course, you’ll learn 8 amazingly nutritious plant-based recipes that double as easy thanksgiving recipes and make-ahead sides just in time for the big day

How Your Glass Baking Dish Can Help You Avoid Pillsbury TransFats This Holiday [Recipe]

Artificial trans-fats (partially hydrogenated oils) are found in some of our most delicious comfort foods including pillsbury crescent rolls (and likely other dinner rolls)! Grab your glass baking dish and make your own with this recipe.

Low-Sodium Chicken Vegetable Soup Recipe [Video]

In the US, November is soup time. By the time November hits, it’s cold enough in much of the US to start craving the comfort of a warm soup or stew [chicken vegetable soup- yummmm].

6 Healthy Halloween Tips

There’s no reason you can’t make this a relatively healthy halloween. Use these 6 healthy halloween tips to stay on track with your wellness glow-up.

Calling out Ultra-Processed Foods

What Are Processed Foods and UltraProcessed Foods?

Let’s answer questions like, “what is a processed food?”, “what are ultraprocessed foods?, and even “what is processing?” . Don’t forget to work your way through the refrigerator inventory to see some examples of ultraprocessed foods.

Important References on Using Self-Care to Heal From Racism

See the resources Dr. Wuse referenced in the ‘Healing From Racism’ Ethel’s Club Workshop Series. These cover eating, sleeping and staying active to reduce anti-inflammatory burden and chronic disease risk.

Sleep Principles from our Daily Wellness Texts

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Black Farmers' Markets and CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) You Should Know About

We dig deep into a few Black farmers’ markets and CSAs that bring Black-owned farm products to city-dwellers’ neighborhoods. We cover a Raleigh farmers market, a Durham farmers market, a Chicago farmers market, a DC farmers market, an Oakland farmers market and two Atlanta farmers markets.