Sugar Feeds Cancer

This timely article confirms how detrimental sugar can be to our health, and includes the fact sugar has been directly linked to feeding aggressive cancer cells.

To further follow-up on yesterday's article "Confessions of a Sugar Addict (Part 1)", it's great to see things are moving in the right direction - US products will now be required to list added sugars to the ingredients on their products (hopefully Canada will soon follow suit). Technology will help us stay informed, as well. The app mentioned in this article can help you detect how much sugar is in the food you eat. Though this app seems a bit cumbersome and may not be the most user-friendly, as my technologist husband says, you can't stop technology!

NeuronutritionKelly AielloOctober 20, 2017Sugar, Lifestyle, Addiction, DetoxComment

Confessions of a Sugar Addict (Part I)

I know it’s hard to believe that something you’ve eaten your whole life could be deadly, but sugar is just that.

Excess sugar consumption is a major factor behind skyrocketing rates of obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, and type 2 diabetes. You may be thinking “I don’t sit there eating handfuls of sugar” - but if you eat packaged, processed, or fast food, that is essentially what you are doing. Almost all packaged, processed foods and meats contain sugar. In fact, you may have noticed that sugar is everywhere!

NeuronutritionKelly AielloOctober 19, 2017Sugar, Lifestyle, Detox, TBI, Diabetes, Brain Fog, AddictionComment

Not Yo Momma’s Shepherd’s Pie

Every time I offered to make a shepherd’s pie for dinner, he’d groan and turn up his nose, stating that he hated shepherd’s pie. I tried the argument that he had never tried MY shepherd’s pie, but it never worked and he remained adamant that he would not like it.

DinnerKelly AielloOctober 16, 2017Paleo, Recipe, Low FODMAPComment

Chewy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies (Vegan)

These gluten-free cookies are a great breakfast alternative for those busy mornings or just to enjoy as a good snack! They can be made Paleo or Vegan. The collagen and nut butter provide a punch of protein, and they are not too sweet. Of course, if you like them sweeter, feel free to add a bit more honey.

These can also easily be made Vegan by subbing the honey for agave.

Alternatively, you can use 3 eggs instead of the flaxseeds and water if you don’t have any flax on hand.

Breakfast, DessertsKelly AielloOctober 13, 2017Vegetarian, Paleo, Vegan, Recipe, CookiesComment

Wheat, The Whole Wheat, And Nothing But The Wheat!

I know there’s a lot of hype in the media about gluten. How gluten is responsible for this and for that. How people are changing what they eat and seeking out gluten-free options. I’m one of those people. Let me tell you why…

Do you get irritable or moody? Do you experience brain fog or get severe food cravings? Are you tired all the time?If so, it may be time to look at what you’re eating.

OtherKelly AielloOctober 12, 2017Kelly AielloMoody, Cravings, Sugar, WheatComment

“I am a Natural Nutritionist”

Today I got word from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition that I passed my final exam and am officially a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN)! I was also told that I graduate with an honours certificate of merit :)

I never would have thought my life would end up taking a turn in this direction - after all, my entire life I only saw myself as one thing - a teacher. Not only that, but my diet growing up was, in one word - terrible! I was overweight, overstressed, and overmedicated.

OtherKelly AielloOctober 3, 2017NutritionistComment

The Full Story

I grew up, like most, eating all those horribly delicious engineered foods that line our North American grocery store shelves.

As a result, I was overweight, tired and constantly sick with migraines, back pain and chronic throat, sinus and ear infections. After years of battling lower back pain, my malaise manifested into osteoarthritis with degenerative disc disease.

Soon after, a diagnosis of Hypothyroidism followed, only to awaken a thyrotoxicosis storm a year later. Grave’s Disease was the new diagnosis along with a bulging eye that eventually required two surgeries to correct.

OtherKelly AielloSeptember 28, 2017Lifestyle, Hypothyroidism, TBIComment

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