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Spring Forward with The GEM Continuing Education Workshops

Spring is the time for renewal, revitalization and detoxification … and The GEM Continuing Education Workshops. It’s time to think about a system re-boot of our bodies and… Read more

Breakfast Ideas for Healthy Teens [Part Four in Four-Part Series]

Healthy Teens

You asked for it and here it is: breakfast ideas for healthy teens. Remember what I said in the second blog? “Breakfast is the most important meal… Read more

Snack Ideas for Healthy Teens [Part Three in Four-Part Series]

Healthy Teens

Snack ideas for healthy teens got you stumped? The key is to BE PREPARED. Remember from last post? If you have good food in your fridge,… Read more

Six Tips for Feeding Healthy Teens [Part Two in Four-Part Series]

We need to get teens back to healthy foods. So how do you start? It is daunting. And I don’t suggest coming in full swing with… Read more

Feed Your Teens Well [Four-Part Series]

Feed Your Teens Well

Teens need exceptional nutrition because their bodies AND BRAINS are growing and maturing rapidly. With the exception of infancy, adolescence is THE most critical time for good… Read more

5 Ways to Get Clean in the New Year

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Well, it’s officially over … glitter, sparklers, gluttony, booze and stress. Are you dull and puffy? Bloated and irritable? It’s time to hit the reset button and get… Read more

5 Tips for Staying Healthy This Winter

This season brings with it happy holidays and festive parties. It also brings stress, less exercise, and more time indoors which equals a greater risk of… Read more

A MUST READ Before You Plan Your Thanksgiving Feast

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. There is no giant, commercially obnoxious build up with pressures to give more, do more … and no depressing let down when… Read more

6 Snacks for School for Your Lil GEMs

Hopefully everyone is settled nicely into our new back to school routines. If your kids are anything like our own GEMs, that means It. Is. On. Snacks for… Read more

7 tips to step off the summer vacation party train

Step off the summer vacation party train. Summer vacation is over. Hate to break the news, but the party’s over. It’s back to school, back to… Read more