coffee

As a Nutritional Therapist, I’ve been told more than once that I have a gentle way of working with clients. I don’t force diets and supplements down people’s throats. I know we’re all at where we’re at health-wise for a variety of reasons that go well beyond just food itself and it can take time for changes to be instituted.
I understand people use food for mental, emotional reasons and that taking a specific food away can be akin to a huge psychological shock.
On my intake forms one of the questions is, “Is there a food you are absolutely not willing to give up?” This gives me an idea of how fast or slow we need to go when making dietary changes. But by far the most frequent item is…yeah, you guessed it…coffee.

It can stress the adrenal glands, liver, kidneys and stomach and can cause the excretion of vital vitamins and minerals as the body tries to rid itself of the caffeine.
erhaps this is not the best way to start my very venture into nutritional blogging by admitting that I’m a coffee drinker.I like hanging out with friends there, I like to do work there, I like to listen to music there, and now, I guess I like to blog there as well.

And I know a lot of people who feel the same way.
So I have funny feeling a lot of people will identify with this blog because I know more people are NOT going to give up coffee than those that are. smirk, sneer and roll your eyes at the seemingly endless barrage of how- to- quit -coffee articles out there and think, ”Yeah right”.

Because I’m right there with ya.
These are the true culprits in our national health epidemics. So if you’re eating mostly locally grown, nutrient-dense sources of foods– including plenty of good healthy fats from grass fed, pastured animals– and if drinking a cup of coffee per day is your only nutritional vice, trust me, you’re way ahead of the game.