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Eat Your Way To Better Health. Here's How To Do It


“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” -Hippocrates

Nutrition is essential to our overall health & wellness. Too often, we compromise our health with poor food choices. We did. We did not equate food with health. We equated food with having a good time. Through this journey, we’ve been able to shift our thinking about food. While we still love to eat & have a good time, it has become more important for the foods we eat to be healthy.


Guess what? We make simple, small changes to every meal. Those small changes had and continue to have a powerful impact on our health, wellness, & sustainability of our weight loss.


Think about it like this, real foods give your body the nutrients it needs to energize, strengthen, repair, and regenerate every cell in your body. Foods help to fight disease, improve focus, and transforms your appearance–everything from your skin to your nails. Food truly is thy medicine. It’s not magic. It’s better nutrition.


To help jump start your efforts of better health, we want to show you how a diet rich in a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, beans, and healthy fats can help you eat your way to better health.


Here are a few quick guides to show you how a variety of foods benefit your overall health/wellness:




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Author Bio:

Eric & Maleka Beal are health coaches and nutritionists with B.S. and M.S. degrees in Human Nutrition and Human Environmental Sciences from the University of Alabama and a Master of Public Health in progress. Together they've coached 100+ Black women over 40 toward lasting health and maintained their own 300+ lb combined weight loss for 19 years through the same evidence-based, culturally aware approach they teach.

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