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 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 Summer D Clemenson | Jan 7, 2021 | Chronic Illness, Fuel Your Wellness
Hashimoto’s Disease is an autoimmune disorder where your immune system creates antibodies that damage your thyroid gland. The inflammation that is caused is called chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis and often leads to a person having an under-active thyroid gland. Often...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 24, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway
Being outside, carefree, full of energy rolling around in the grass, throwing leaves at each other, laughing you would never guess that you may need to be careful and aware of what may bite you. Ticks. They are in the grass, the dirt, trees, everywhere outside and...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 19, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness, Mental Health
Having an eating disorder is a real issue and so is having type 1 diabetes, what if you had both? What if you developed an eating disorder while taking care of your type 1 diabetes? This eating disorder is called Diabulimia. Although it is not recognized in the mental...
by Jamie Holloway | Nov 12, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway
Many of you saw Karen’s video about me and my on-going breathing issue. I greatly appreciate all the support and prayers. I’m happy to be back home with my boy Nicholas. When I got home from the hospital on Monday evening I had a surprise in the mail from a friend who...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 27, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
When I was a teenager I would watch old movies with my dad and one of those movies was about Lou Gehrig. The Lou Gehric Story was the title of the movie. This movie was about his life as a baseball player in the late 30’s and early 40’s and why he had to retire on...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 23, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Men's Health
Breast cancer is touted as only a women’s issue, but that isn’t the truth. Men can get breast cancer and they should be checking their nipples and areolas too. Women get breast cancer more often, but that doesn’t mean male breast cancer is not a real diagnosis. Men...
by Jamie Holloway | Oct 20, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
Pain, it can be intense. It can be tiring. It can be ugly. It can be chaotic. Arthritis is painful and there are a lot of different types of arthritis. Today, I want to talk about Gout. I have two forms of arthritis: Rheumatoid Arthritis and Gout. I have these and two...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 29, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
Confusion, loss of memory, paranoia, and mood swings are often associated with older people. Alzheimer’s Disease affects 5.5 million Americans, aged 65-years-old or older. It is the third largest cause of death among Americans. Alzheimers is an irreversible...
by Jamie Holloway | Sep 24, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Sexual Wellness
Healthy aging: One thing we all have in common no matter what gender, race, sex, or size we are is that we all get older. In the article I am going to talk about learning how to age well. As we age our body changes: Our blood vessels begin to stiffen Our arteries...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 18, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Videos, Women's Health
Hey Everybody! This is Karen with Wellness Works NW. You know, when we were first starting we were really thinking about the people we really wanted to help, kind of our target group of people, and we want to help everybody because we love everybody but we decided on...
by Karen G Clemenson | Sep 4, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! It’s Karen from Wellness Works NW! You have done it! You have decided it is time to feel better. Maybe you just went up the stairs and it wasn’t as easy as it used to be. You used to be able to do it fine, but today, half way up, you began to struggle...
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 25, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Chronic Illness
The skin is the biggest organ we have in our body so it is vital we take care of our skin. What happens when your body decides to attack the skin thinking it is the enemy? Many of those who have Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) which is a combination of having Psoriasis and...
by Karen G Clemenson | Aug 24, 2020 | Fitness, Videos
Hey Everybody! This is Karen from Wellness Works NW. We are moving through the summer and things are getting better. It has been 100 years since women got the right to vote. Can you imagine that? A woman named Susan B. Anthony and her friend, Elizabeth Cady Stanton,...
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 Karen G Clemenson | Aug 6, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Videos
Hey! It is Karen with Wellness Works NW and I am happy to see you! It has happened. All this talk about exercise and now you are ready to try to begin exercise. You are chronically ill and you pushed yourself until you could hear the “Rocky” theme in your head...
by Karen G Clemenson | Jul 31, 2020 | Chronic Illness, Fitness, Videos
Hey Guys! This is Karen with Wellness Works NW and I am so glad you are here. Thank you so much. When you have skin problems can be very frustrating. I remember in high school I would buy Oxy-10 and spreading it on my face to try to help my skin. It would never...
by Jamie Holloway | Jul 31, 2020 | Chasing Wellness with Jamie Holloway, Food News, Product Reviews
At Wellness Works NW we know the importance of having a wellness plan that includes eating well. In this article I am going to share my personal review of Grancestors Cottage Pie Frozen Dinner. Previously, I wrote a review for Grandcestors Paleo Colorado Hash Meal and...
