Nutrition & Cooking: Boost Health with Summer Berries | Alexa
Berries are one of the healthiest foods on the planet, filled with an abundance of nutrients and antioxidants! They are also in season and widely available during the summer season. Learn how to easily incorporate more berries into your life with simple delicious recipes to boost health and fight disease.
Nutrition & Cooking: Overcoming Burnout & Boredom in the Kitchen | Alexa
Feeling burnt out with cooking and trying to eat healthier? Getting bored with your meals? Join nutritionist, Alexa Cooksey, as she teaches some simple but highly effective tools and strategies to help you get re-inspired in the kitchen and back on track for success!
Nutrition Talk: Is Emotional Eating Sabotaging Your Efforts to Eat Healthier? | Cassie
Self-sabotaging healthy choices is a common frustration and many people believe they have their own lack of willpower, poor habits or mindlessness to blame. In this presentation, we will explore how emotional eating may be showing up in your life and discuss proven strategies to increase emotional resilience without indulging in food in order to optimize eating habits. Click here to view or download slides.
Nutrition Talk: Support Your Mental Health with Food | Leah
What you eat has a powerful influence on the state of your mental health. A poor diet can contribute to poor mental health, but a healthy diet can improve your mood, resilience to stress, and sense of wellbeing. In this nutrition talk, you will learn how to choose foods that contribute positively to your mental health and will learn how to improve your gut health, blood sugar, and inflammation to help you improve your mental health..
Nutrition Talk: Foods for Sleep | Leah
Sleep: we all love it, but many of us struggle to get enough. This nutrition talk covers why sleep is so important to prioritize, and how to optimize your sleep using food and lifestyle practices so that you can wake up feeling energized, refreshed, and ready to conquer your day!
Nutrition & Cooking: Easy, Healthy, & Comforting Instant Pot Soups | Alexa
Join Nutritionist Alexa for this Instant Pot-inspired class where you’ll learn how to make easy, healthy, and comforting soups that you and your whole family will love. Recipes include a vegan and vegetarian-friendly minestrone soup, as well as a hearty and delicious Zuppa Toscana-inspired soup!
Nutrition & Cooking: Frozen Meal Ideas | Ali
Frozen healthy meals can make life so much easier! They save us time in the kitchen and limit the stress around ‘what’s for dinner’. In this video, learn some easy hacks for freezing ingredients, full meals, sweet treats, and a nutrient dense grab-n-go breakfast!
Nutrition Talk: How to Make Healthy Eating Easier | Leah
Eating healthier sounds great, but it can also feel difficult for many people. During this nutrition talk nutritionist Leah Barack will break down some of the best ways to start eating healthier that won’t complicate your life and will share some of her favorite healthy eating hacks and cooking tips to make your journey to healthy eating easier. During this talk, you’ll learn that eating healthy doesn’t have to feel difficult, and you’ll get motivated to implement these nutrition hacks into your own life!
Nutrition Talk: Fueling Yourself to Crush Your Athletic Goals | Leah
Eating healthier sounds great, but it can also feel difficult for many people. During this nutrition talk nutritionist Leah Barack will break down some of the best ways to start eating healthier that won’t complicate your life and will share some of her favorite healthy eating hacks and cooking tips to make your journey to healthy eating easier. During this talk, you’ll learn that eating healthy doesn’t have to feel difficult, and you’ll get motivated to implement these nutrition hacks into your own life!
Nutrition & Cooking: Healthy Mexican-Inspired Recipes | Alexa
Join nutritionist Alexa in this cooking class where you’ll learn how to make healthy Mexican-inspired meals. Recipes are family-friendly, easy, and full of flavor! We will be making a homemade taco seasoning, plant-based stuffed peppers, slow cooker salsa chicken, and a one-pot taco pasta.
Nutrition Talk: Whole Grains 101 | Alexa
What are whole grains? How do you identify them? Are they healthy? Learn the answers to these questions and more in this informative nutrition talk all about whole grains! Nutritionist Alexa covers everything you need to know including easy ideas for how to include them in your diet.
Nutrition & Cooking: Healthier Homemade Takeout | Alexa
Learn how to make healthier versions of some classic go-to takeout dishes including a cauliflower orange “chicken”, turkey lettuce wraps, homemade teriyaki sauce, and a veggie packed fried rice. You’ll love how easy and tasty these recipes are!
Nutrition Talk: Secrets of Longevity from the Blue Zones | Alexa
Join nutritionist Alexa in this nutrition talk about the Blue Zones, the regions of the world with the longest living populations and highest rates of people over 100! We’ll dive into their lifestyles and eating habits and discover the secrets of what may be helping them live longer and healthier.
Nutrition & Cooking: Healthy High Fiber Desserts | Alexa
Eating more fiber doesn’t have to be hard – in fact it can be fun! Learn about fiber and its importance to your health, plus learn how to easily meet your daily fiber intake using delicious and healthy high fiber desserts that the whole family will love!
Nutrition Talk: Vitamins, Minerals, & Supplementing | Alexa
Join nutritionist Alexa for an educational class all about vitamins, minerals, and supplementing. You’ll walk away feeling more knowledgeable about these different nutrients and the functions they serve in your body, as well as how to incorporate different foods to help you reach your daily requirements.
Nutrition & Cooking: Easy Ways to Eat More Greens | Alexa
Leafy greens are one of the best sources of nutrients that you can eat to nourish and support your body’s health. Learn easy ways that you can incorporate them into every meal of the day! Some recipes we will make include Thai Inspired Chickpea Red Curry and a Breakfast Frittata.
Nutrition Talk: The Truth About Calories | Alexa
Confused about calories? Tired of calorie counting? Join Nutritionist Alexa for a refreshing new perspective on calories! Learn what calories are, what calorie density is and why it’s important, why calorie counting and restriction don’t work for long-term health and nourishment, and learn some strategies for eating more intuitively.
Nutrition & Cooking: Smarter Smoothies | Alexa
Smoothies can be a great addition to a healthy diet. Learn how to make smarter smoothies that maximize positive health benefits and nourishment for your body. Learn additional tips such as meal prepping smoothies, making them creamier, and naturally sweetening them!
Nutrition Talk: Understanding & Honoring Hunger | Alexa
Join nutritionist Alexa as she gets real on hunger and shares why traditional diets are damaging your understanding of hunger and your relationship with food and your body. Learn what hunger is, what influences it, why it’s not a one size fits all, and how to honor it with intuitive eating strategies so you can properly nourish your body for optimal health.
Nutrition Talk: Healthy Snacking | Leah
Everyone loves snacks! But are your snacks loving you back or are they making you more tired and hungry? During this nutrition talk, we will cover why snacks are important, and how to make sure your snacks are keeping you satisfied and giving you lasting energy throughout the day!
Nutrition & Cooking: Seasonal Fall Cooking | Leah
Changing from summer to fall means our diets should change as well. Join nutritionist Leah Barack to learn how to shift your diet from summer foods to fall foods, all while nourishing your body. Recipes include apple cinnamon muffins, salmon curry, and a butternut squash kale salad.
Nutrition & Cooking: Eating for Stress & Anxiety – Vegetarian Edition! | Leah
These are undoubtedly stressful times, but there is so much you can do through diet and lifestyle to be resilient! In this class, you will learn which nutrients and foods to focus on to help decrease stress and anxiety, and lifestyle tips and tricks to help you de-stress. We will also be cooking up some delicious stress-reducing dishes to help put you at ease!
Nutrition & Cooking: Eating For Eye Health | Leah
Do you wear contacts or glasses, get dry eyes, have a cataract or eye floaters? Are your eyes fatigued from staring at screens all day? What we eat can have a huge impact on the health of our eyes, and paired with lifestyle interventions has been shown to both prevent and reverse eye problems and improve eyesight. During this class we will discuss the nutrients and foods to focus on to improve eye health to empower you to take control of your eye health!
Nutrition Talk: Answers to the Most Common Nutrition Questions | Leah
Which foods help you lose weight? Should you try keto? Do you need to count calories? What is the best diet to try? What should you eat before and after a workout? Should you do a juice cleanse? Is intermittent fasting for you? These are some of the most popular questions nutritionist Leah Barack gets asked, and during this video she answers all of these questions and more! Chances are you’ve got some of these same burning questions, so watch now to learn the answers!
Nutrition & Cooking: Eating for Energy | Leah
Do you find yourself reaching for coffee throughout the day to stay awake? Do you experience an afternoon slump in energy? Do you struggle to stay alert and energized throughout the day? If so, you won’t want to miss this class all about how to eat for increasing energy! We will cover which foods will help you boost your energy throughout the day, why you might want to break up with coffee, and how to plan your meals and snacks so they increase rather than decrease your energy and productivity!
Nutrition Talk: Mindful Eating & Weight Loss | Leah
Do you eat your dinner in front of the TV? Lunch in front of your work computer? We’re a society of distraction, and this can affect how we respond to the foods we eat. Join Leah in this Nutrition Talk to learn how to eat more mindfully, why it’s important for optimal health, and how it can break the dieting cycle and help us lose weight long-term.
Nutrition & Cooking: Eating to Reduce Burnout | Leah
Feeling burnt out and mentally exhausted lately? We’re here to help! What we eat can impact feelings of getting burnt out and emotional stress. Nourishing food can be a game-changer for people experiencing burnout. This class covers how what to eat can help prevent exhaustion, burnout, and work-related stress and anxiety.
Nutrition Talk: Functional Medicine Approach to COVID-19 | Leah
The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on the importance of prioritizing our health and strengthening our immune systems. During this Nutrition Talk functional nutritionist Leah Barack discusses the importance of gut health and diet for improving immune resilience, and covers a number of different vitamins, minerals, and nutraceuticals that can help bolster your immune system in the face of the virus. She also covers important lifestyle factors you can implement to improve your overall immune health.
Nutrition & Cooking: Aging Gracefully | Leah
Getting older is inevitable, but there are many scientifically-proven ways we can increase our longevity using food and lifestyle practices. During this class, we cover which foods and nutrients can help increase longevity and make the aging process easier. We also cook up some delicious recipes to help you age gracefully including a raspberry panna cotta, walnut-crusted salmon, and turmeric greens!
Nutrition Talk: Diets, Food Labels, & Nutrition Labels | Leah
Are you confused about what to eat or what diet to try? Watch this informative nutrition video to get some clarity! In this video nutritionist Leah Barack covers why everyone is so confused about nutrition, how to know if something is actually healthy or not, and how to read and understand food labels and nutrition labels.
Nutrition & Cooking: Eating for Sleep | Leah
How have you been sleeping lately? What and when we eat can have a direct impact on our sleep quality and quantity. During this class we will learn why sleep is so crucial for health and which foods and nutrients can help us improve our sleep. We will discuss lifestyle tips and tricks to improve your sleep hygiene so you sleep through the night and wake up feeling refreshed in the morning!
Nutrition & Cooking: Eating for Stress & Anxiety | Leah
These are undoubtedly stressful times, but there is so much you can do through diet and lifestyle to be resilient! In this class, you will learn which nutrients and foods to focus on to help decrease stress and anxiety, and lifestyle tips and tricks to help you de-stress. We will also be cooking up some delicious stress-reducing dishes to help put you at ease!
Nutrition & Cooking: Warming Foods for Winter | Leah
If you’re feeling the cold this winter, this class is for you! We’re talking all about warming foods to help you stave off the cold this winter, and how to tap into your body’s amazing ability for creating warmth. We’ll cook some delicious heating food, and touching on some Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine nutrition tips for helping you stay warm!
Nutrition & Cooking: Pantry Cooking 101 | Leah
It’s always a good idea to keep your pantry stocked with non-perishable items so you can pull together meals without having to go to the grocery store. This class will teach you the best ingredients to keep on hand so you’re always prepared, and we’ll cook some delicious, healthy pantry meals you can easily make once you have all your pantry staples on hand!
Nutrition & Cooking: Keeping Stress Low + Healthy Comfort Foods | Ali
We all get stressed! On the daily or around certain times of the year. Keeping the body in an overly stressed state can be very detrimental to our health. Learn how to use food to de-stress in a healthy way!
Nutrition & Cooking: Cutting & Cooking Veggies | Ali
This video explains how to cut different vegetables, different cooking techniques and how to prepare them to preserve their nutrients. These are skills that can truly make healthy eating at home enjoyable and easy!
Nutrition & Cooking: Squash Mania! | Ali
Ali shares 3 different recipes using 3 different types of squash. Watch to learn about the nutritional benefits of squash, how to cook them numerous ways and enjoy them either sweet or savory!
Nutrition & Cooking: Meal Prep Basics | Ali
Finding a basic meal prep that works for you and your family can certainly help when it comes to to continuously eating healthy nutritious foods all week long. Watch and learn a few new basic ways to set your week up for success! Ali includes her Grocery List ‘MVP’s and recipes like an Easy Fall Sheet Pan with Apple, Sausage and Squash, a Crock Pot Chicken and Blender Style Apple Spiced Pancakes.
Nutrition & Cooking: Keeping the Family Healthy with Kids Back to School | Ali
Learn how to use nutrients to rid brain fog, keep the immune system up and power up our mind! Plus, easy snacks and recipes that the entire family will love!
Nutrition & Cooking: Power Proteins | Ali
Amino acids are essential to have a healthy functioning and strong body, but do we need them daily? Do they need to come from animal products? Which are best and worst when it comes to our health? Watch this video to learn more and discover some easy ways to cook them up!
Nutrition & Cooking: Mindful Eating & Snacking | Ali
Creating healthy, mindful habits is one of the most important skills you can give yourself for your overall wellbeing. Ali shares some of her top tips to better read your body, eat mindfully, feel balanced, and never feel like you’re missing out on your favorite foods!
Nutrition & Cooking: Supporting the Immune System | Ali
There is nothing worse than getting sick during the holidays! Supporting our immune system is crucial right now to stay healthy in order to ward off viruses and bacteria. Ali teaches you how to make the ultimate immune-boosting soup, easy roasted veggie sheet pan, and a snack that’s a saving grace with all of the other sweet treats that are around during this time of year!
Nutrition & Cooking: Healthy Holiday Episode | Alexa
Learn some easy twists on traditional holiday favourites, how to increase nutrient density on your table this year and feel balanced while still enjoying some treats!
Nutrition & Cooking: Healthier Holiday Treats | Alexa
Join Nutritionist Alexa for this fun class all about creating Healthier Holiday Treats! Featuring 4 healthier and delicious recipes: Pumpkin Spice Snickerdoodle Cookies, Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Healthier Holiday Granola, and Slow Cooker Hot Apple Cider. Plus, learn how to customize the granola recipe and turn it into a cute and easy holiday gift for friends and family. Let’s get baking!
Nutrition & Cooking: The Importance of a Healthy Microbiome | Ali
The human microbiome is home to trillions of bacteria that impact our overall health. An imbalance in the composition is linked to nearly every disease developing today! There is a way for all of us to benefit from removing certain foods and replacing with healing ones in order to diminish symptoms and increase longevity!
Nutrition & Cooking: Nutrition for Mental Health | Ali
Using food as medicine can be incredibly powerful, especially when it comes to our brain health and mental state. Although everyone’s situation is different, getting enough nutrients may help ease anxiety and depression. Learn how to make these delicious recipes to properly fuel your brain and power up your mind!
Nutrition & Cooking: Metabolic Health | Ali
Metabolism is what describes all the chemical reactions in the body that keep us alive and functioning. Watch this video to learn more about the process of turning calories into usable energy, how to boost your metabolic rate, and not only maintain a healthy weight but natural also energy and high brain functionality.
Nutrition & Cooking: Setting Intentional & Realistic Health Goals | Ali
Setting goals that are less rigid and instead thinking about bit more wide spread ones that have good intentions, can be the key to our success! Watch to get some healthy ideas to focus on going into a new year.
Nutrition & Cooking: Heart Health | Ali
What we eat directly influences the health of our heart, and incorporating a few heart-healthy foods into our diet is key to providing it with the nutrients that it needs to stay strong, healthy and ward off one of the top diseases!
Nutrition & Cooking: Getting in Your Greens | Ali
Only about 9% of us actually get the recommended daily intake of vegetables! Crazy! Ali goes over a variety of ways to add in veggies throughout the day, which ones are the most nutrient dense and how to mix it up to keep it interesting!
Nutrition & Cooking: Healthy Weight Loss | Ali
Natural, healthy weight loss is a journey but it doesn’t have to be so confusing! Ali gives some tips on what to keep in your kitchen and what to make sure to incorporate into your meals to help shed the weight, still be satisfied and most importantly keep the weight off!
Nutrition & Cooking: Staying Satisfied & Energized | Ali
Learn about how the trifecta; Proteins, Fats and Fiber are the key to keeping you truly satisfied and energized throughout the day + grab the recipes for Oatmeal Banana Bread, 1 pan Vegan Peanut Stew and a delicious morning Detox Smoothie!
Nutrition & Cooking: Nuts & Seeds 101 | Ali
Nuts and seeds are high in fiber, protein and heart-healthy fats! There are numerous kinds and ways we can be getting them into our daily diet. This video gives you information on how to store them, buy them and eat them!
Nutrition & Cooking: Cooking on a Budget | Ali
No need to spend your savings trying to stay healthy! This video gives you tip and tricks to shop and cook on a budget, use ingredients you have on hand and in more ways than one!
Nutrition & Cooking: Inflammation & Anti-Inflammatory Foods | Ali
Inflammation is natural in the body but when it become chronic, it can be very dangerous for our health. It is linked to nearly every disease developing in the body! There are foods that promote inflammation and others that combat it. Keeping inflammation low is key for limiting disease and radiating our health to its highest so we both look and most importantly, feel our best!
Nutrition & Cooking: Dips, Sauces, Condiments, and More! | Leah
Processed foods are notorious for containing unhealthy ingredients. Learn what to watch out for with processed dips, sauces, jellies, nut milks, and more, why even foods marketed as “healthy” and “natural” are often not, what red flags to look for on a food label, and how to make homemade versions of your favorite condiments and more. Recipes include vegan cheese, raspberry chia jam, barbecue sauce, almond milk, and a black bean dip.
Nutrition & Cooking: Foods for Detoxificaton | Leah
We live in an increasingly toxic world, and because of this we need to support our detoxification systems in the body. Toxins are associated with weight gain, fatigue, cancer, metabolic disease, neurodegenerative disease, and more. This lesson teaches you that there are many things we can do to decrease our toxic load, and teaches you about powerful foods and lifestyle tips that will help you increase your ability to detox.
Nutrition & Cooking: Meal Prepping and Batch Cooking | Leah
Learn about what meal planning and batch cooking are, and how they can save you time and money, and make your life easier! In this class we cover a framework for planning weekly batch cooking, and discuss tips and tricks to help make it quicker and easier for you. All of the recipes can be doubled (or tripled!) depending on how many people are in your household.
Nutrition & Cooking: Plant-Based Proteins | Leah
In this class we cover why protein is so important, how to get enough protein on a plant-based diet, how to decrease gastrointestinal discomfort from eating beans and legumes, and why a plant-based diet made of whole foods rather than processed foods is imperative. Recipes include a vegan/vegetarian bolognese, peanut butter black bean brownies (with a secret ingredient!), and a quinoa edamame salad.
Nutrition & Cooking: Eating for Brain Health | Leah
Learn how to eat for optimum brain health. Brain health is implicated in everything from mood, energy, and focus, to development of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Recipes include ginger salmon, a lemon kale avocado salad, and brownie bites!
Nutrition & Cooking: Healthy Foods for Kids | Leah
This week is all about making nutritious foods even your kids (or picky partner!) will eat. Kids are notorious for being picky eaters, and not wanting to eat healthy foods. That can be a barrier for your own health journey, and this video helps teach you how to get your kids on board the healthy eating train, and why it’s especially important for kids to be well-nourished.
Nutrition & Cooking: Healthier Dishes for a Summer Barbecue | Leah
We all love a good barbecue, but traditional foods we find at a BBQ aren’t always the healthiest. Learn how to make some delicious healthier dishes to bring to your next BBQ that will have everyone coming back for more!
Nutrition & Cooking: Meal Prep: Breakfast Edition | Leah
Learn how to plan ahead to set yourself up for success during busy mornings with quick and delicious breakfasts you can make in advance! Recipes include sweet potato “toasts,” mushroom tarragon egg cups, sausage patties, and chia pudding.
Nutrition & Cooking: Eating for Immune Health | Leah
This week’s class is all about eating to support your immune system. What we eat has a direct impact on the ability of our immune system to fight off pathogens such as viruses and bacteria. Learn which specific foods and nutrients to focus on, and how to create three delicious dishes that all incorporate these nutritious foods!