Jackie Thorne

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• Posted Think Outside the (Rice) Box, and Try Quinoa Today to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Looking for a healthier and more flavorful alternative to rice? Well if you haven't heard of it yet, quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah) cooks as fast as rice and has the highest nutritional profile of any grain. For breakfast, lunch or dinner,...
• Posted Think Fresh and Local Food This Spring By Joining a CSA to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Warmer weather has finally arrived here in the North Country.  Farmers, gardeners, and fresh-food enthusiasts alike are eagerly awaiting the start of the farmer's market season. And while shopping at the farmer's market is a great way to support our...
• Posted The Sweet and Surprisingly Healthy Goodness of Maple Syrup to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Now is the time when maple trees here in the Northeast become precious sources of sap instead of just natural beauty. Commercial producers and hobbyists alike start spending weeks, days and hours cooking up the magic and mystery of the...
• Posted Top Tips to End Emotional Eating to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  If you frequently down a pint of ice cream in one sitting after a stressful conversation, eat a whole bag of chocolate when you're feeling hormonal, or if the first thing you reach for is a bag of potato chips...
• Posted Is Going Gluten-Free Right For You? to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Gluten is a huge topic for discussion these days. Just about everyone I talk to or work with at some point will pose the question of whether a gluten-free diet might work for themselves, a friend or a loved one....
• Posted Probiotics 101: Your Secret to a Healthy Immune System to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Probiotics are a popular topic today. Everywhere there are ads for foods and supplements to make sure you get these good-guy bacteria into your digestive system. But what are probiotics exactly, and why are they important? And how do you...
• Posted 4 Steps to Managing Any Life Crisis with Heart and Healing to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  In her latest book, inspirational author Tara Brach reveals a Buddhist technique for dealing immediately with emotionally difficult and stressful situations called RAIN. The four steps can be practiced any time, anywhere, and are described as follows:•    Recognize what is...
• Posted Learning Lessons in Love on Valentine's Day to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Whether single or coupled up, love is usually on everyone's mind come February 14th. This is a great time to examine not only if you are getting enough love in your life, but if you are giving enough, as well....
• Posted Fun Workouts To Try This Year to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  The New Year brings us a fresh start, and a time to make resolutions and set intentions for the months ahead. Our goals often fall into categories such as career, relationships, and fitness. While fitness activities can sometimes seem like...
• Posted How to Let Loose and Be Bad for a Change to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Amid all the arrangements, obligations, and pressures for perfection this holiday season, do you ever find yourself fantasizing about a blissful escape from responsibility? Wouldn't it be nice to skip the shopping and treat yourself to a massage instead? Go...
• Posted The Value of Simplicity and How to Find It to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  As humans, we are naturally complex creatures: Our problem-solving ability has been our primary survival mechanism, allowing us to monitor and adapt to our environment very successfully, and even to learn to adapt the environment to ourselves. Combine those inherent...
• Posted Want to Live to Be 100? Ask the Greek Islanders How to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Could the secret to living a long, healthy life be as simple as residing on a Greek island?According to the recent New York Times essay, "The Island Where People Forget to Die", the answer is "yes." Residents of Ikaria, a...
• Posted News For You: The Latest and Greatest In Health and Nutrition to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  This week I thought I would share a summary of a few interesting stories in health and nutrition to watch out for. I encourage you to Google for more information on any of the topics below...In the PinkOctober is, of...
• Posted Fruits and Veggies: The Secret to Boosting Your Mood Every Day to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Ever spent time with a cranky child - or adult - after they've eaten too much candy? If you have, you definitely know how food can affect a person's mood.Though we often crave sweets and comfort foods when we're feeling...
• Posted Optimism: The Real Key to Losing Weight to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  What kind of motivation spurs someone to truly lose weight? It's a $147 billion question - and that's only taking into account the medical costs in the U.S. alone. Health authorities have long struggled to find effective ways to curb...
• Posted Fight Inflammation with These 5 Super Foods to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Inflammation is a physiological response the body has to injury, pain, illness, and even stress. If your body has a temporary, acute inflammatory response-like pain, redness and swelling if you get a bug bite, for example-it is simply a sign...
• Posted Get Slow: Top Tips to Savor Your Life to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  As we head from summer toward the cooler days of fall- I can feel it in the air already, I bet you can, too- I am reminded of how a change in season often brings about a change in mindset....
• Posted Coconut Water: Healthy Benefits, or Just Plain Hype? to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  It seems coconut water is everywhere these days. People ask me all the time if it's hype, or if it's actually good for you.Once confined only to tropical beaches and health food stores, coconut oil's watery cousin has exploded into...
• Posted Adrenal Fatigue: Could It Be Zapping Your Energy, Vitality, and Health? to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Daily living causes much stress, which is not easy on the adrenal glands. Combine stress with poor eating habits, lack of sleep, and too much caffeine, and you have a recipe for the development of what is known as adrenal...
• Posted Quick and Easy At-Home Energy Drink For the Athlete In All of Us to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Are you a fan of energy and sports drinks? You can bet most of our Olympic athletes are.  For them and other very physically active people, sports drinks can be a useful tool to re-hydrate the body and replace lost...
• Posted 21 Best Cheap and Healthy Eats to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Eating healthy seems to be getting harder in our current economy. Food prices are climbing, and many are still looking to fast and packaged foods for cheap eats. But low cost doesn't have to mean low quality. In fact, some...
• Posted Top Tips for Beating the Summer Heat to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  I have never really liked the intense heat of summer (75 degrees is about perfect for me). Growing up in the Midwest, green turned to brown in July under the blazing sun, and was followed by the mugginess of August....
• Posted Do Carbs Make You Fat? Maybe So, Says New Research to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  It's a discussion I've had countless times: What role do carbohydrates play in weight gain, and where do they fit into a healthy diet? Recent research seems to indicate the answer may depend as much on their source as on...
• Posted 10 Steps for Kicking the Sugar Habit to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Got yourself a sweet tooth? You're not alone! An addiction to sugar (conscious or unconscious) is one of the most pressing issues faced by many people, including my clients. Though it can feel overwhelming or even impossible, you can kick...
• Posted Raw Foods: A Cooling Addition to Your Summer Eating Plan to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  When I mention 'raw foods', many people think it sounds exotic or extreme; they picture bizarre concoctions of unpalatable produce, or they think it sounds just plain boring.But the fact is, we eat raw foods all the time and there's...
• Posted Recipes For A Healthy Father's Day to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Father's Day always arrives before you know it, amid the breezy, sunny days of June. It's the perfect time for a picnic or a backyard cookout with family and friends. Simple recipes, both savory and sweet, ensure a low-stress, fun...
• Posted Recipes For A Healthy Father's Day to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Father's Day always arrives before you know it, amid the breezy, sunny days of June. It's the perfect time for a picnic or a backyard cookout with family and friends. Simple recipes, both savory and sweet, ensure a low-stress, fun...
• Posted Recipes For A Healthy Father's Day to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Father's Day always arrives before you know it, amid the breezy, sunny days of June. It's the perfect time for a picnic or a backyard cookout with family and friends. Simple recipes, both savory and sweet, ensure a low-stress, fun...
• Posted How Food and Our Relatioships Feed Each Other to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  Last week I met with a woman who told me about her "divorce diet." In the wake of a very painful situation, she managed to lose the 10 to 15 pounds she had struggled to get rid of for so...
• Posted Acupuncture: Ancient Science Helps Heal Our Modern Problems to Hometown Health: A Health Blog Featuring Glens Falls Practitioners
  While it may sound somewhat far out, acupuncture is an time-honored practice that has been used successfully for centuries to treat a variety of health conditions. Western medicine is finally coming to embrace the practice and understand the significance of...