Articles to Live By
Inside: Get the facts – not the hype – about processed and unprocessed foods, and feel your grocery shopping frustrations fade away. If only there was an easy way to identify wholesome foods in the supermarket! I get the desire for a simple icon or…
Inside: Find the ultimate non-starchy vegetables list, so you can manage your weight, blood sugar, blood pressure, and overall health and well-being. What if you could manage your weight and your blood sugar – and your cholesterol and blood pressure too – without ever being…
Your eating environment (or any environment) is more important than willpower. Find out how to fix your eating environment and your eating habits with one tiny change. I have finally killed my obsessive email-checking habit! And what a change: I’m more productive. I enjoy my…
When people ask me what to eat with high blood pressure, they’re almost always surprised by the simplicity of my answer. Diet changes aren’t usually easy, but at least this one isn’t complicated. If you’re swayed by headlines that promote different foods to help lower…
Here’s how to eat more fish for a healthy heart and brain without spending a fortune, cooking for hours, or listening to family members say yuk! Are you among the tiny fraction of Americans who eat the recommended 2 or more servings of seafood weekly?…
Stop spending hours in the kitchen adding more veggies to your diet. Here’s how to eat more vegetables with healthy convenience foods. When do you feel like a broken record? Could it be when you say any of these? “Have you done your homework?” “No,…
There’s great news when it comes to the health benefits of herbs and spices! Plus they’re easy to use. But don’t make these 5 common mistakes. I’ve got a spice cabinet, a spice drawer and an overflow shelf too. Plus, I’ve got basil, lemon verbena,…
It’s not that you’re too lazy to eat right. It’s that healthy eating is hard – and for lots of reasons that have nothing to do with your character. Could it be that all the lazy people of the world came to me to help…
Is alcohol good or bad for prediabetes? What about alcohol and diabetes? And is what they say about red wine and the heart a good reason to open a bottle? Let’s dig in. It’s happy hour! Should you or shouldn’t you? You’re tapping your foot…
Can you trick your brain to build healthy eating habits? This brain hack will help you eat better. And feel better about yourself. Can celebrating your wins help you eat more broccoli and fewer cookies? Will yesterday’s “You go, Jill,” get me to jog a…
Welcome to my Blog
Hi there! I'm Jill, a nutrition & diabetes expert and the author of 4 books.
I believe simple changes in health habits can bring you life-changing rewards.
And I believe willpower is way overrated.
Right here is where you can discover the mindset and habits to stick with healthy lifestyle choices most of the time - and drop the guilt when you don't.