Summary Place all ingredients in a shaker and shake. Pour over salad. If you refrigerate it, take it out of the fridge at least one hour before using, so the olive oil has a chance to settle.   Ingredients ½ cup of olive oil ¼ cup of flax oil 3 tbsp of red wine vinegar 1 [...]

Welcome and thank you for visiting my site!

I am so honored to have this platform to share knowledge and empower you to make important changes in your lifestyle to improve health and live the best quality of life that you can.
I am a registered dietitian, author, foodie, mom, wife, daughter, sister, and friend. I have spent the past decade honing my craft of how our food affects our body. I have spent most of my career learning about natural health products and how these can influence our health. A wise teacher once told me that our bodies have an innate ability to heal themselves if given the proper nutrition. What we put into our mouths every single day really does influence how we feel. There is no better time than the present to start making these important changes.

natural health

Many of us become interested in natural health through a place of need. I am no different. When I was 19 I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called mixed connective tissue disease. It presents itself with intense pain, inflammation, and overall fatigue in the body. The prescription of course was to be on a very harmful drug called Plaquenil. The drug had more side-effects than benefits as far as I could tell, as I spent most my time in followup appointments measuring the drug (not the disease) effects on my lungs, eyes, kidneys etc. 

I was also using excessive amounts of ibuprofen to help deal with some of the inflammation that created so much pain in my body.

And at 19, of course I was unaware of the long-term side effects of such a plan. However, upon finishing university and working in the field of natural health oils, I came across some ground breaking research on borage oil. This was the first natural product I ever used (outside the chewable Flinstone vitamins my mom gave me as a child) and I have to say the results were more than impressive. Over the course of 3 months I quit using the Plaquenil, and I noticed I was using the ibuprofen less often as well. I have to say this really launched my personal interest, along side my business interest into the field of natural health. And here I am, 10 years, 4 books, thousands of lectures later…sharing my story, sharing the products that I love and trying to inspire you to take control of your health.

Personal Journey

My personal health journey is deep and even more far reaching than what I have shared here and like so many I have gone through a range of physical and emotional issues. Life can be difficult, and is filled with a series of bumps. The important thing is to stay focused, become knowledge, be positive, and thankful for the goodness and life that we have. And as a Christian, I firmly believe in faith. My faith has brought me to the place I am today. Doing what I love for work, which is a huge blessing in itself, a mother to 2 amazing boys, a husband who shares so much in my life and believes in me more than I believe in myself, and of course the ability to connect with you.

All of you inspire me to continue to do more. If you want to share your personal health journey, whatever that may be, from weight loss, to eczema, to childhood allergies, I would love to hear about them, and hear how changing certain things in your food and life have made you feel better.

I hope my website serves as a tool to help learn, and share all things related to food, nutrition, exercise and supplements.

Live With Health,

Karlene

Valentine’s Sweet Treat  Cinnamon hearts, chocolate kisses, and other tempting treats are in abundance as we approach “love” day.  After you have spent the past 30 days on SafSlim and making other healthy belly choices with your food and exercise, we all want to be able to indulge without completely forgoing all our hard work. [...]

10th of February 2012