Blog | Lara Adler

Does Winter Make You S.A.D??

Posted on Sep 27, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments The air becomes crisp and cool. The leaves fall from the trees and crunch under our feet. Summer’s palate of bright colors fades to more subdued tones and the gray monotony of winter is close at hand. Fall. My favorite time of year. But for a lot of people, myself included, this can also be a difficult time. Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, affects millions of people every year,...
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Yikes!! (and the Road to Peak Health)

Posted on Sep 21, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments Man oh man, did I fall off the blogging bandwagon pretty hard. It’s been soooo long since I’ve written a proper post about, well, anything, aside of course from some of my newsletter content. I’ll just consider it a “summer vacation” from blogging, but I’m here to assure you that I’m back. But here’s what I’ve learned about myself, and my...
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Client Success Story #1!

Posted on Sep 8, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments I’m going to be taking up blog space to brag about how AWESOME my clients are, and all the amazing transformations they’ve experienced during our program. It’s one thing to hear me congratulate them.. it’s entirely different to read about your own or someone else success online. Whoohoo! I am SO into this! I’m going to kick off this feature by sharing an A-HA moment...
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What’s the #1 Bad Habit That’s Driving Those Carb Cravings and Packing On The POUNDS?

Posted on Sep 8, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments Hint: It has nothing to do with food… you’ll kick yourself when you realize how obvious it is! The answer: sleep! Not enough of it, or the right kind. Some people think that staying up late and keeping busy means more calories burned during the day… But this is dead wrong, especially for those trying to loose weight! In fact, it’s making your weight problem worse, and you...
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Stress: Lightening the Load

Posted on Aug 10, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments Stress is something we all feel from time to time. For some, it’s a nagging little thing and for others it’s a seemingly never ending avalanche. Whatever is the source of your stress, learning to let it go, and lighten your load is hugely important to your health. Stress contributes to 80% of all disease and can do everything from disrupt your sleep to wreak havoc on your digestive...
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Food Focus: Stone Fruits

Posted on Aug 10, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments Send me to the farmers market in August, and I’ll return with more fruits than I know what to do with!! This is my favorite fruit month by far with some of the best fruits North America has to offer… peaches, nectarines, apricots, a ton of varieties of plums, cherries, late blueberries, blackberries… it’s heaven. Stone fruits take center stage though during August, and...
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August Q&A – Baking Without Eggs

Posted on Aug 10, 2010 in Blog, Recipes | 1 comment This month’s Q&A question is near and dear to my heart, for a few reasons. Alexa from New York emailed in about her newly diagnosed allergy to eggs, asking how she can go about replacing them when she bakes. A lot of people suffer from egg allergies – some mild and some severe. Other people choose to avoid eggs for ethical reasons (vegans), because of their concerns about excess...
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5 Steps to Becoming Master of the Farmers Market

Posted on Aug 5, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments Not exactly Master of the Universe, but it’s pretty close. Despite more and more farmers markets popping up all over the place, there are still plenty of people who are intimidated by the crowds, the chefs, and the people who seemingly know exactly what to look for. Instead of avoiding the markets altogether, or just shopping the fringes, these tips will ensure that you’ll feel like...
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Lead In Our Lipstick and Other Great Stuff

Posted on Jul 22, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments We’ve all heard the rumors that the average woman eats something like 6 lbs of lipstick in her lifetime, something which has never swayed anyone I know from buying their favorite shade. But this is just that, a rumor. Snopes.com managed to bust this legend by calculating exactly how may tubes of lipstick a person would have to go through to ingest 6 lbs of the stuff, and it was a...
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Raw Summer

Posted on Jul 19, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments Raw foods have become really popular in the last few years, and as a group have elevated themselves from a fruit salad and carrot stick bunch to haute cuisine at it’s best. The sheer level of creativity of raw foods these days is enough to inspire even the hardest of traditional chefs and encourage first timers to become far more adventurous. For some, raw foods is a passing fad, and a...
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Cooling Summer Foods

Posted on Jul 13, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments We naturally crave foods according to the season – comforting soups in the winter, sprouts and salads as spring starts to bloom, and – who are we kidding – ice cream in the summer! Our bodies are always seeking balance, so it makes sense that we’d crave foods to counteract the effect of the weather. Ayurvedic practitioners, masters of seasonal eating, have these...
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Food Focus: Raw Foods

Posted on Jul 13, 2010 in Blog | 0 comments Everyone knows it’s healthy to eat fresh, uncooked fruits and vegetables every day. Raw foodists take this way of eating to heart and base all their meals around different preparations of raw fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. While some people debate the health merits of eating a totally raw food diet year round, it certainly it a great diet for the long, hot days of summer! Raw...
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