by Laurie Marbas | Apr 22, 2017 | Health
I have been on a quest to not only share the value of a whole foods plant based diet but to figure out how to help people actually stick to healthy lifestyle changes. People understand they should eat more fruits and vegetables, exercise more, eat less, sleep more,...
by Laurie Marbas | Feb 19, 2017 | Health
When we think about change we often believe the lie that it is all a matter of will power…that we can force ourselves to change by merely white knuckling our way through. THIS is why we fail to achieve our goals, resolutions and we fail to bring about...
by Laurie Marbas | Jan 29, 2017 | Health
Early in 2012 I was in a little town in western Colorado called Rifle. Now you can imagine the population who lives in rural western Colorado in a town named after a gun. A town where there is a cafe where the waitresses wear guns. A town where kids are taken out of...
by Laurie Marbas | Jan 1, 2017 | Health
Who among us has not made a New Year’s resolution only to watch it drift away over the course of days to weeks, never accomplished? The gyms are full the first few days of the New Year, only to be empty the following week. How do the few who make serious changes in...
by Laurie Marbas | Oct 10, 2016 | Health
Every day I work with patients who are struggling to lose weight by incorporating a whole food plant-based diet. After the initial 30 days, I usually have them follow up to encourage them and give them accountability. I have begun to see a trend among most if not all...
by Laurie Marbas | Oct 3, 2016 | Health
Diabetes is a growing trend in America, and many of us have family members or friends with this potentially debilitating and deadly disease. According to the CDC, over 25 million American adults have diabetes, and 79 million have prediabetes. Diabetes is the 7th...
