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Top 2025 Nutrition Trends to Watch For
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Top 2025 Nutrition Trends to Watch For
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Is a Plant-Based Diet Right for Everyone? Exploring the Benefits of Including Animal Foods
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Is a Plant-Based Diet Right for Everyone? Exploring the Benefits of Including Animal Foods
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How To Know If You Have Parasites!!
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How To Know If You Have Parasites!!
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Grilling Veggies to Perfection: A How-To Guide for a Healthy Summer
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Grilling Veggies to Perfection: A How-To Guide for a Healthy Summer
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12 Steps to Better Health - Start TODAY!!
Brain Health, Choices, Coaching, Digestion, Education, Energy, Fitness, Food, Fresh Food, Goals, Health, Health Coach, Health Food, Healthy, Holistic, Inflammation, Keto Friendly, Mental Health, Natural, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Nutritionist, Paleo Friendly, Raw Foods, Self Care, Self Love, Sleep, Treat Yourself, Unplug, Vegan Friendly, Vegetarian, Weight Loss, Wellness, Whole Foods Megan Barefoot Brain Health, Choices, Coaching, Digestion, Education, Energy, Fitness, Food, Fresh Food, Goals, Health, Health Coach, Health Food, Healthy, Holistic, Inflammation, Keto Friendly, Mental Health, Natural, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Nutritionist, Paleo Friendly, Raw Foods, Self Care, Self Love, Sleep, Treat Yourself, Unplug, Vegan Friendly, Vegetarian, Weight Loss, Wellness, Whole Foods Megan Barefoot

12 Steps to Better Health - Start TODAY!!

Easy Steps to Improve your health TODAY!

Isn’t better health what we all want? We all know what we are supposed to be doing and we all know there are simple steps that can be taken to reach better health. Today I would just like to remind all of us of some simple steps to get us on the right track. I will also share why these steps are important for each of us to work on.

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What's Your Why?
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What's Your Why?

Why a Why is so Important

When you are losing weight, trying to improve your health or have any BIG goal it’s important you have a strong “WHY”. This doesn’t mean a reason like “because I should” or “because my doctor told me I need to” although those are both good reasons to start embarking on a change in lifestyle to get healthy, they might not get you through the tough times….and trust me when I say there are likely going to be tough times if the “goal” is a big one.

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How Are You Spending Your Calories?
Brain Health, Carbohydrates, Challenge, Choices, Coaching, Digestion, Education, Energy, Food, Fresh Food, Gut Health, Health, Health Coach, Health Food, Healthy, Holistic, Inflammation, Keto Friendly, Mental Health, Micro-flora, Natural, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Nutritionist, Organic, Paleo Friendly, Self Care, Self Love, Sugar Free, Treat Yourself, Vegan Friendly, Vegetarian, Weight Loss, Wellness, Whole Foods Megan Barefoot Brain Health, Carbohydrates, Challenge, Choices, Coaching, Digestion, Education, Energy, Food, Fresh Food, Gut Health, Health, Health Coach, Health Food, Healthy, Holistic, Inflammation, Keto Friendly, Mental Health, Micro-flora, Natural, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Nutritionist, Organic, Paleo Friendly, Self Care, Self Love, Sugar Free, Treat Yourself, Vegan Friendly, Vegetarian, Weight Loss, Wellness, Whole Foods Megan Barefoot

How Are You Spending Your Calories?

Eat Your Nutrients Before Your Calories!

I know we don’t like to talk about calories, or count calories or think about calories. We’re all just ‘intuitively” supposed to eat and “know” when we are full and when our body has had enough. Then how come so many of my clients are ALWAYS hungry?

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Love Your Guts - Eat Fermented Foods!
Brain Health, Coaching, Digestion, Digestive System, Energy, Food, Gut Health, Health, Health Coach, Health Food, Healthy, Holistic, Immune System, Inflammation, Keto Friendly, Mental Health, Micro-flora, Natural, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Nutritionist, Paleo Friendly, Self Care, Self Love, Sugar Free, Treat Yourself, Vegan Friendly, Vegetarian, Wellness, Whole Foods Megan Barefoot Brain Health, Coaching, Digestion, Digestive System, Energy, Food, Gut Health, Health, Health Coach, Health Food, Healthy, Holistic, Immune System, Inflammation, Keto Friendly, Mental Health, Micro-flora, Natural, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Nutritionist, Paleo Friendly, Self Care, Self Love, Sugar Free, Treat Yourself, Vegan Friendly, Vegetarian, Wellness, Whole Foods Megan Barefoot

Love Your Guts - Eat Fermented Foods!

Fermented Foods – Love Your Guts!!

If you’ve been on social media or even watching the news there has been lots of talk recently about fermented foods. Is this a new trend in the dieting roller coaster? Will there be a new fad diet using fermented food? I doubt it but wouldn’t put it past the media! Fermented foods have been around for centuries and have been dietary staples in many cultures!

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Traditional Diets
Brain Health, Coaching, Digestion, Energy, Fat, Food, Fresh Food, Gut Health, Health, Health Coach, Holistic, Inflammation, Keto Friendly, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Paleo Friendly, Self Care, Wellness, Whole Foods Megan Barefoot Brain Health, Coaching, Digestion, Energy, Fat, Food, Fresh Food, Gut Health, Health, Health Coach, Holistic, Inflammation, Keto Friendly, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Paleo Friendly, Self Care, Wellness, Whole Foods Megan Barefoot

Traditional Diets

What we can Learn from Traditional Diets

In the 1930s, a Cleveland dentist named Weston A. Price, DDS, traveled to isolated parts of the world to study the dental health of people unaffected by Western civilization. His studies revealed that dental caries and deformed dental arches, which resulted in crooked teeth, were the result of nutritional deficiencies and not genetically inherited as previously believed.

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Eat Veggies - Kill the Cravings
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Eat Veggies - Kill the Cravings

Eat Veggies - Kill the Cravings

Almost everyone craves sweets. It’s only natural as our body’s use glucose (the simplest form of sugar) for energy.  But rather than depending on processed sugar, why not try to add naturally sweet foods to your daily diet to satisfy your sweet tooth?

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Seven Ways to Boost Your Brain Power
Coaching, Education, Fitness, Health, Health Coach, Holistic, Natural, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Whole Foods, Brain Health Megan Barefoot Coaching, Education, Fitness, Health, Health Coach, Holistic, Natural, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Whole Foods, Brain Health Megan Barefoot

Seven Ways to Boost Your Brain Power

Boosting Brain Power

Are you doomed to slower reflexes and poor memory as you age? Science says, “Not necessarily!” Every person’s brain, like their body, is uniquely different. Not everyone is subject to the slowing down of mental faculties that tends to come with aging.

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Resolution Check In
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Resolution Check In

Just curious about who has made a resolution this year? It’s the last week of January and I’m wondering if you have stuck to it this far. Have you had support? Was it a BIG goal or a little change that you have made? I decided to make a list of goals for the year with one for each month. I have been able to keep my goals for the month but am struggling with patience and can see why people don’t typically make it to the end of the month for resolutions and give up before things get going.

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Day Thirty - Holiday Health Challenge
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Day Thirty - Holiday Health Challenge

Prepare Your Resolution

Here it is! The last weekend of the year. How are you preparing for the New Year? 2018!! I am going to spend some time today preparing for my resolutions and goals that I have set for the coming year. I know what I have to do because we have already set our goals. Now I am going to set myself up for success.

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Day Twenty-Nine - Holiday Health Challenge
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Day Twenty-Nine - Holiday Health Challenge

Book Your Appointments

Today is Friday. If you are like me, you don’t really feel like working. Today I am going through my calendar and setting dates for all my yearly appointments. I want to ensure that I am taking care of myself and that I have scheduled time for appointments for my children too. Yearly check ups for physicals, dental and eye doctor visits are part of a healthy regime. Why not book them now and not let things go for another year. 

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Day Twenty-Four - Holiday Health Challenge
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Day Twenty-Four - Holiday Health Challenge

Be Kind

It’s Christmas, a time of giving, a time of receiving, a time of peace and joy. That seems so obvious on the outside. We put on a happy face and bravely face the world. But what are your inner thoughts saying to you? Are you kind to yourself? We have been working together all month to focus on being aware, on making the best choices and being prepared. But what do you tell yourself when that doesn’t happen? Are you kind?

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Day Twenty - Holiday Health Challenge
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Day Twenty - Holiday Health Challenge

Are there Traditions You Can Live Without?

I was shocked when I Googled Holiday Traditions in Canada and realized that 90% of them were all foods or involved a food! What? Do we not read “Twas the Night Before Christmas” anymore? Why does everything have to revolve around food? I have decided to make a point this year of making other things a tradition with my family.

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Day Six - Holiday Health Challenge
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Day Six - Holiday Health Challenge

Okay, so we discussed scheduling the events that we are going to visit and we discussed how to navigate drinking at events but what about food?  Here’s the scenario; We arrive at a party and there is a MASSIVE buffet filled with the most delicious food!  We tried to plan ahead and not arrive super hungry but we were tied up at the office and had to rush out the door.  What do we do?...

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Day Five - Holiday Health Challenge
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Day Five - Holiday Health Challenge

Through this entire year how many times have you taken time out to “just be”? Just be you, just think about you, what you want and what you need?  How many times did you think about doing something special for yourself, to say thank you to yourself for being SO amazing? Have you been to get a pedicure, facial or massage? Did you think to buy yourself something, just because YOU deserve it?...

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Day Four - Holiday Health Challenge
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Day Four - Holiday Health Challenge

Technology is the current drug of choice for many.  Addiction can only be understood when the object is taken away.  Are you addicted to your technology?  Have you tried leaving the phone, tablet or computer turned off for a day or even a few hours?  We can never fully realize how much we NEED to be connected until we aren’t...

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Day Three - Holiday Health Challenge
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Day Three - Holiday Health Challenge

Many of us stay accountable for the food but forget the drinks add up too! I am astounded at the number of New Year resolution stories I hear that begin with “I just don’t know where I went wrong!” I am by NO means going to tell you...

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Day Two - Holiday Health Challenge
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Day Two - Holiday Health Challenge

First things first, I know that there are LOTS of events we feel we HAVE to attend over the holidays, but do we?  Today I suggest sitting down with your calendar and really evaluating all the invites you have scheduled.  I know there is at least ONE that...

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Day One - Holiday Health Challenge
2018, Challenge, Choices, Christmas, Coaching, Digestion, Drinks, Education, Energy, Food, Gut Health, Health, Health Coach, Health Food, Healthy, Holidays, Hydration, Holistic, Natural, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Nutritionist, Wellness, Whole Foods Megan Barefoot 2018, Challenge, Choices, Christmas, Coaching, Digestion, Drinks, Education, Energy, Food, Gut Health, Health, Health Coach, Health Food, Healthy, Holidays, Hydration, Holistic, Natural, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Nutritionist, Wellness, Whole Foods Megan Barefoot

Day One - Holiday Health Challenge

I know, I know, it sounds SO simple.  But did you know that your body is approximately 60% water and that we are constantly losing water through our urine and our sweat?  When we are going into the holidays filled with goodies and treats there also some other good reasons to drink more water!...

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