If you’re trying to eat healthier, you already know you should be including lots of fruit, vegetables, lean protein, and whole grains.

But when you step into a grocery store, that’s when things get a bit more complicated.

The majority of store shelves are crammed with a tempting assortment of pre-packaged and convenience foods loaded with nutrition marketing buzzwords.

Maybe you’re thinking it’s not that hard to decipher which foods are healthiest. After all, if a product is labeled as “organic” or “low-fat” or “gluten-free”—it must be good for you, right? Well, not exactly!

You may also think you’re doing a noble thing by adding healthful-sounding foods to your cart—but in reality, you may end up taking in way more calories, sugar, and unhealthy ingredients than you intend!

This is because most product nutrition claims don’t cut it when it comes to the actual healthfulness of a food.

But yet, many shoppers are still crushing on this alluring food label lingo—i.e. “natural, organic, paleo, whole grain, low in [calories/fat/sodium]”—and believe these terms alone mean a food is healthier than it actually is.

This effect of perceived healthfulness of a food (or food-like) product based on a single claim is called a ‘health halo’.

Let’s talk about two of the most common labeling terms that contribute to this health halo effect, and what you can do to make truly healthy food choices for you and your family.

Do you have symptoms that just don’t seem to go away?

I’m not only talking about just digestive symptoms but any random aches, pains, discomforts, etc.?

One of the trickiest things to figure out is whether a random symptom could be due to a food intolerance. That’s because symptoms can be delayed, or ongoing, and not even resemble a gastrointestinal symptom at all.

In this post, I go over a few of the common symptoms, and two (very) common foods that you may be reacting to, but don’t even know it.

How many excuses do you hear yourself saying every day? ‘I couldn’t get this done today because… OR I didn’t have time to do that because…’

Sometimes all it takes to be more ‘productive’ is to simply stop sabotaging yourself and get out of your own way. But not confronting procrastination and all the “I’m too busy” excuses are shining examples of standing in your own way.

So, you’ve got to prioritize achieving results ahead of staying in your comfort zone – and stop making excuses! You’ve probably also heard the phrase, “work smarter, not harder”?

Well, in this post we’re going to give you a ton of ideas for how to do just that… without making excuses 😉

Plus, we’ve got a sweet recipe for your daily bliss + brain boost — a must for taking more action that get the results you’re after.

(Oh, and these little bites will also give you your daily chocolate fix!)

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