How to eat well to help manage stress
by Maureen Doran, RD, LD, integrative nutritionist As an integrative nutritionist with the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing, I see patients who end up taking on poor nutritional habits...
View ArticleLearning to forgive
I had an amazing opportunity this morning to meet with another healer, Mary Hayes Grieco, who specializes in helping people learn to forgive. Many of you appreciate how the mind, body and spirit work...
View ArticleA healthy spin on summer grilling
By Jeannie Paris, RD, LD Summer in Minnesota brings family reunions, outdoor cookouts and weekends at a cabin or camping with friends and family. These events tend to center around food, and often...
View ArticleMindful eating for the real world
Molly Ellefson (right) offers one-on-one integrative health and wellness coaching sessions. By Molly Ellefson, MS, CHWC Mindful eating, a concept based on Buddhist traditions, is a process of putting...
View ArticleTop breast cancer fighting foods
Gregory Plotnikoff, MD, MTS, FACP, talked about top breast cancer fighting foods and how our diet contributes to estrogen metabolism, an important risk factor for breast cancer on KARE 11 news @4 on...
View ArticleMy path to the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing
Debra Bell, MD, hiking wth her husband. By Debra Bell, MD This fall marks the start of a new chapter for me in a more than 25-year journey as a family medicine and integrative medicine physician. In...
View ArticleGetting to know gluten – what’s up with this new food issue?
Gluten is a hot topic. If you’ve been wondering what all the buzz is about, consider attending “Getting to Know Gluten – What’s Up with this New Food Issue” at Kowalski’s Woodbury Market from 6:30-8...
View ArticleResponding to health headlines on the value of multivitamins and supplements
An editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine last month suggested that multivitamins and supplements are a “waste of money.” The editorial bases its opinion on the results from three recent studies...
View ArticleA primer on probiotics – what’s all the hype about?
By Jeannie Paris, RD, LD Probiotics is a term that we hear about much more often than we did even a couple of years ago. Pick up any magazine and you’re likely to see an ad for probiotics. So why all...
View ArticleBreaking away from unhealthy American ways
By Megan Odell, LAc, MS My professor was new to our school and the United States, having only recently left China. I had the privilege of observing this brilliant acupuncturist as he assessed patients’...
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