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Health and wellness insights from Luisa Szakacs, including nutrition tips, healthy recipes, and holistic wellness topics you can use every day.
Valentine's Day: Smart Ways to Love Your Health
Use Valentine's Day as motivation for healthy habits with practical meal and snack ideas you can prepare in under 15 minutes.
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Thanksgiving: Build a Healthy Feast Without the Crash
A practical guide to balancing indulgence and nutrients during Thanksgiving with smarter swaps and smarter portions.
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Why Summer Is the Perfect Time to Try Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting is not about starving yourself, it's about creating gentle rhythms between eating and fasting that give your body time to rest and repair.
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The Scoop on Protein Bars
Not all protein bars are created equal. Many store-bought options are filled with hidden ingredients that could be doing more harm than good.
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The Skinny on Fats
What was once considered bad is now recognized as essential. Fat plays a critical role in our health by providing energy, supporting brain function, and aiding hormone production.
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Enjoy Fall Scents Naturally
Commercial air fresheners can be harmful to your health. Here are natural, easy-to-make alternatives for scenting your home and car this fall.
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Healthy Options for Patriotic Desserts
Healthy can be fun and tasty. Keep your family healthy while enjoying the summer holidays with these red, white, and blue recipes.
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Smart Substitutions in the Kitchen
By replacing high-calorie, processed ingredients, you can greatly improve a dish's nutritional value. Even small changes can have a big impact.
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New Healthy Habits for 2024
We don't want a New Year's Resolution this year. We want new healthy habits! Here are simple tips for a healthier lifestyle.
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Pumpkin Spice Can Be Nice & Healthy Too!
Let's take a moment to appreciate the pumpkin itself. Pumpkins are rich in vitamins A, C, E, and minerals, low in calories, and high in fiber.
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Getting Your Kids to Eat Their Veggies
Simple strategies to help kids eat more vegetables through smoothies, popsicles, gardening, and kitchen fun.
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Healthy Summer Picnics
Healthier picnic ideas for meats, toppings, sides, dips, drinks, and summer treats.
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My Therapeutic Tools for The Islamic Republic of Gambia
A practical mission-trip packing plan for food, hydration, and environmental support while traveling.
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Healthy Kitchen Swaps
Five easy ingredient swaps that can improve long-term health without overhauling your routine.
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Wholesome Holiday Baking
Holiday desserts with cleaner ingredients, better fats, and less sugar crash.
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Easy & Healthy Soup Recipes
Luisa shares her expert tips on how you can make healthy and easy soup recipes this season to help you stay warm and cozy.
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Healthy Road Trips
Road-trip snack, hydration, and protein ideas that beat fast food.
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The Juicing Craze: How to 'Squeeze Out' All the Benefits
Juicing basics, recipe ideas, and how to keep sugar under control for better results.
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You Want Me To Do WHAT with WHEATGRASS?
I just spent two weeks at the Ann Wigmore Natural Health Institute in Puerto Rico, and it is a truly special place! Ann Wigmore was a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, and her life’s mission can be summed up with this quote, which I have posted on a sign in my office: “The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.”
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Healthy Goals for 2022
It’s 2022, and once again time for New Year’s resolutions. Health related New Years resolutions are so common, especially after the delicious sweets we had over the holidays. We all agree we should not start something that we cannot finish. Luisa recently chatted with Karin Mallett from WFMZ on how to make some very attainable healthy goals
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Smoothie & Poke Bowls
We love heathy Acai bowls! These fruits come from the Acai palm tree in Brazil and have been coming increasingly popular. The fruits do have healthy benefits such as balance blood sugar, improve immunity as well as lower inflammation.
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Intermittent Fasting
If you are a foodie, fasting helps you be more controlled with your eating. Eating the good stuff at the right time helps to boost metabolism, can help with weight loss, and can help with overall inflammation. Luisa shares all you need to know about intermittent fasting.
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Allergy Relief
50 Million Americans suffer with allergy symptoms, and you can eat your way to allergy relief. Focus on eating anti-inflammatory foods to help reduce your risk for allergies.
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Heart Healthy Foods
This month, we are focusing on being heart healthy. The good news is that heart healthy is also immune healthy! How do we do this? You are what you eat, so feed your heart well.
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It's Not Too Late to Lose the 'Quarantine 15'
If you've put on what many are calling the \"quarantine 15,\" there are healthy ways that can get your ready for summer. WFMZ's Eve Russo chatted with Luisa Szakacs recently to find out what she recommends.
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Quarantine 15? Make a better plan!
You have seen the cartoons: Once the quarantine is lifted, trying to get out the door and can’t fit through your front entrance. Gyms are closed, lots of sitting in front of the TV, and wearing PJ’s and sweatpants all day does not help the situation. The Quarantine 15 is truly a reality!
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Stock Up On Better-For-You Cleaning Essentials
So your cleaning lady is unavailable and you don’t know what to do? Well, I am so thankful that I have my kids home from school/college to help with housework. (And because I love spending time with them too!) The good news is that I started early in training my children on how to clean.
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Healthy Eating On A Budget
We hear it all the time: Eating Healthy is expensive and impossible! That’s just not true; it is possible to eat healthy on a budget, and I joined WFMZ 69 News at Sunrise to show you how.
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Why Do A Detox?
Isn’t the topic of detox just a pleasant way to say that you will starve yourself and be deprived of anything good and yummy for 28 days? Well, that idea is truly hogwash. The 28 day detox has a tremendous list of benefits.
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Prepare Your Kitchen For A Healthy 2020
In our office, when we encourage others to eat healthy, it is critical for them to have good options available, not leftover Christmas cookies sitting around the house! Send the cookies to the office and do a kitchen mini-makeover. What can we do to give our kitchen a healthy makeover for 2020?
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Winter Sickness Helps
Whether young or old, our immune system starts in our gut. As we are approaching the coldest winter months, it is very common for many of us to get some type of sickness, whether a head cold, stomach bug or flu symptoms.
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Healthy Holiday Baking...it is Possible!
Baking cookies is a fun and festive part of your holidays. Don’t feel like all is lost when you are trying to eat healthy!
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Ancient Chinese Secrets
You may remember a commercial back in the 1970s that talked about an “Ancient Chinese Secret.” It really wasn’t an actual ancient Chinese secret but just promoting a new laundry detergent. In a recent visit to the Far East, I was pleased to find some of the real Ancient Chinese Secrets that we can still use today!
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The Amazing Benefits of Bone Broth
Bone Broth is popular now at many places, including grocery stores. There are a lot of benefits including gut health, boost immune system, healthy joints and hair, helps if you are feeling sick.
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A Lesson About Herbs
Next time you are in our office, take a peek at the fresh herbs that I keep in our windowsill. My family uses these herbs on a regular basis, so it’s convenient to have them nearby in our home. Herbs offer a variety of benefits for your health, while offering all kinds of distinct flavors and seasoning possibilities
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Summer Sun Safety
Enjoying the sunshine is one of the highlights of summer. We get our vitamin D intake and we also get a nice tan! However, it is important to remember that we need to protect our skin from the sun's strong rays as well. Here are some healthy and non-toxic ways to still enjoy and be sun safe too!
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Healthy Summer Picnic Foods
Summer treats can be simple, healthy and even promote weight loss. In our office, we encourage our clients to eat natural, wholesome foods, grown from the ground and minimally processed. As a result, weight loss becomes a healthy side effect of all this good eating.
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A Visit to the Standard Process Farm
Last week I was able to visit the Standard Process Farm in Palmyra, Wisconsin. I toured the farms and saw the complete process of how these products are manufactured from seed to supplement.
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Food Helps for the Allergy Sufferer
According to the CDC, more than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies each year. Allergies are a simply misguided reaction to foreign substances by the immune system.
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Healthy Uses for Household Items
You may have some inexpensive things around the house that are helpful non-toxic solutions for your health and home.
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Is Your Kitchen Toxic?
Have you looked around your kitchen lately? Sometimes we are doing our part to stay healthy, but a minor thing, such as something used in our kitchen, could still be causing a major issue!
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Happy New Year on WFMZ!
2019 is here, and time for the New Year Resolutions. Two things are common when it comes to discussion of resolutions, including a desire for weight loss and sticking to your goals. Because we want you to be successful, we are going to make it easy for you this year.
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you and your family! We are so grateful for this holiday season, to enjoy the time with family, sharing special memories together and thanking the Lord for His special gift of Jesus.
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Cleaning Tips for the Holidays
This holiday season, keep your family away from “Keep out of reach of children” or “Harmful if swallowed” labels. Clean the house with non-toxic ingredients, which I recently spoke about on WFMZ 69 News!
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How will you spend your Thanksgiving?
Our family is looking forward to spending another holiday together. As the kids grow up and leave for college, this time of year is especially precious when we are all together as a family. We look forward to time together along with the Thanksgiving meal, but I wanted to let you in on one of our family traditions.
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Health Benefits of Pumpkin
Though many of us do not understand or appreciate the tremendous healthy benefits of pumpkin, eating pumpkin and pumpkin seeds are an excellent way to support a heathy lifestyle.
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Back-to-School!
It’s time to settle into a new routine of waking up early and getting the kids adjusted to a new schedule. One of my top priorities is to send them out the door with a healthy lunch!
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Marpé Nutrition on WFMZ!
Luisa was recently featured in a live television segment on 69 News WFMZ-TV to talk about \"Healthy summer snacks on the go!\"
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Too Many Vegetables?
Is it possible for you to have too many vegetables? Perhaps this time of year, when our gardens are plentiful and overflowing with cucumbers and tomatoes, the local produce stands have a variety of choices for cheap prices, co-workers are giving away their overgrown zucchini, and the CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) offers so many vegetables, it is impossible to fit them in your fridge.
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Welcome to My Marpé Blog!
Welcome to my blog! This is where you can find helpful nutrition advice, cooking tips, healthy recipes, hints for healthy living, promotions, workshop updates and more! We currently have clients doing the 30 Day Spring Challenge. This promotion is still available until May 15, so call the office at 215-450-9963 for more information.
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