by Summer D Clemenson | May 21, 2024 | Food News, Fuel Your Wellness
I was recently watching TV and a commercial came on that said that artificial sweeteners caused strokes. I don’t eat foods with artificial sweeteners because they cause my GERD to flare up but I was curious and thought it was time for me to be learning about...
by Summer D Clemenson | Jul 5, 2022 | Food News, Recipes
Regardless of what your food philosophy is or what diet plan you follow or don’t, eating is important. Babies that don’t learn to latch on properly at birth are labeled failure to thrive and have a hard path in front of them and people with food issues do too. I was...
by Jamie Holloway | May 31, 2022 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Food News
You get home from work and your spouse makes a delicious steak dinner for you along with wine. You are trying to lose weight and do not know if wine is on your eating plan. I have good news. It can be. Wine in moderation has many health benefits. The key word is...
by Jamie Holloway | May 10, 2022 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Food News
Just a warning that this is going to be a long article. Writing about nutrition is such a vast subject that it would take me two lifetimes to write everything there is about it. In this article I am going to focus on macronutrients and micronutrients and the reasons...
by Jamie Holloway | Apr 9, 2021 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Food News
I love pizza. Crispy, cheesy, with yummy sauce on bread. Eating well and eating healthy pizza can happen. In honor of pizza month, I have found recipes that are healthy, so you do not have to feel guilty for enjoying a slice or two of pizza. I broke the recipes into...
by Nancy Cho-Auvil | Apr 7, 2021 | Food News, From the Heart with Nancy Cho-Auvil
Hello everyone! After a short hiatus of taking a long winter’s rest, (I blame COVID) I am now bumping up my wellness journey that includes a dietary change that I believe is worth checking into: High Starch Diet.Recently, I was talking to my cousin in Hawaii. We were...
by Jamie Holloway | Apr 5, 2021 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Food News
The temperature drops, the rain starts falling or the snow, and the first thing we all start craving is a nice hot bowl of soup or stew. January is National Soup Month. There are so many ways to to write about soup, I decided that I would share some healthy soup...
by Jamie Holloway | Feb 18, 2021 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Food News
Cheese has been around for over 4,000 years. Cheese is made from animal milk, goat, cow, buffalo, and any farm animal by adding acid and bacteria which causes it to curdle and make curds. The solids from the curds is then aged and processed to make cheese. According...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 14, 2021 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Food News
January is popcorn month and Karen at Wellness Works NW’s favorite snack is popcorn. It is crunchy and meets the snack needs she has. Popcorn is a healthy snack. It is high in fiber. It is also high in phenolic acid which is an antioxidant. Popcorn also has a...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 12, 2021 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Food News
We all love sweet things in our life, whether it is in food or drinks or the peace and calm that happens in being loved well. Sweet is one of the pleasures we all enjoy. Like anything in life there must be a balance. Just like there must be a balance to fat and...
by Jamie Holloway | Jan 5, 2021 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Food News
January if Vegan month. I thought I would take the opportunity to learn and write about what Vegan is and the types of Vegans there are. There are two reasons someone will choose to eat Vegan. 1. Ethical reasons, they do not want to damage the earth and the animals....
by Summer D Clemenson | Nov 2, 2020 | Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, Recipes
The other day I was really not feeling well. That is normal when you live with chronic illness, but that day it was worse. I felt like I was floating through the day in slow motion. It would have been a perfect reason to decide to pick up a cheep dinner. Karen always...
by Summer D Clemenson | Sep 16, 2020 | Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, Product Reviews
Hi Everyone! I wanted to share with you are product I found while Karen and I were waiting in line at Walmart. I try hard to not notice all the odds and ends and treats while we are waiting, but I was hungry and I was eye-balling the end-cap with the jerky on it and...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 14, 2020 | Fitness, Food News, Men's Health, Videos
There you are! This is Karen with Wellness Works NW and today we are going to talk about Low T…Back in the 70’s there was this great soul singer named, Barry White, and he could get his voice very low and he had this very seductive voice, like, “Hello Baby.” He could...
by Summer D Clemenson | Sep 9, 2020 | Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, Product Reviews
The other day I tried a Shanti Bar. I am not a fan of meal replacement bars, in general. Most of them taste like cardboard and many of them have soy in them, which makes them taste like chalk, but it also makes me sick. Some of them have tons of sugar in them too. I...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 2, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Food News, Videos
Hi Folks! I am Karen from Wellness Works NW and I am going to talk about the Paleo Diet. You’ve probably heard of it before. There are so many kinds of diets out there and it may make you confused. There is the Mediterranean Diet, Paleo, the Switch, the Military...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 1, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Food News, Product Reviews
Every so often I want a sweet treat but when you are trying to eat well it becomes hard to find treats that meet your wellness goals. Sometimes you find products that claim to be healthy but they taste awful. Then there are products that you find that are healthy and...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 20, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Fitness, Food News, Mental Health
When I was growing up in the late seventies and early eighties I wanted to be Wonder Woman with her awesome strength, invisible plane (I used to make believe my big wheel was my invisible plane), and her smarts. I know many little girls who wanted to be just as strong...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 19, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Food News
Six years ago I first heard about the Paleo Diet because one of my sisters was following this diet and she still is. It helps her with her autoimmune disease and makes her feel more energized and it helped me lose fifty pounds. Personally, I follow my own version of...
by Wellness Works NW | Aug 11, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Food News, Fuel Your Wellness, Recipes
This article was co-written by Jamie Holloway and Summer D Clemenson. By popular demand we were tasked with coming up with a one day sample of how to eat Mediterranean. We provided recipes for the one day of meals listed here. Jamie has never made a meal plan before...
by Jamie Holloway | Aug 7, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Food News, Product Reviews
Eating well can be a big challenge when you suffer from a chronic condition that leaves you feeling fatigued and unable to cook from scratch sometimes. You might want to turn to a TV dinner type of meal. Thankfully, now there are some healthier options that...
by Nancy Cho-Auvil | Aug 5, 2020 | Food News, From the Heart with Nancy Cho-Auvil
Greetings to all! Here is to a very happy August.Here we are and it is already August. Time flies so fast, it is easy for me to get busy with life, such as anxiously waiting the arrival of my fifth grand baby. I love each and every one of my grandsons to eternity and...
