Ginger Hudock

Book Recommendations

Summer is time for pleasure reading for many of us. I always have at least one ready to read when I am finished with my current book. Recently I began keeping track of the books I read on a site called Goodreads. I rate the books I read and write reviews for many of them. […]

Book Review: The Essential Oils Diet

I am a longtime reader of Dr. Eric Zelinski’s website and his previous book The Essential Oils Revolution, so I was very interested to read his new book, The Essential Oils Diet. As a certified nutritionist I am very well educated in healthy eating and living principles. I am always on the lookout for new […]

How sin and bad habits are comparable to weeds.

Pulling Weeds

I am a world-class weed puller. If you don’t believe it, just ask my husband. When I see a nicely manicured landscape with one or two weeds in the middle, I feel compelled to stop and pull them. Vegetable and flower gardeners know how important it is to weed on a regular basis. If […]

Why not try this recipe for a healthy snack that tastes like carrot cake? This recipe is easy as long as you have a food processor.

Carrot Cake Energy Balls

There are lots of articles, recipes and pictures of sugary treats. It can be hard not to indulge, especially if you have a sweet tooth like I do. Why not try this recipe for a healthy snack that tastes like carrot cake? This recipe is easy as long as you have a food processor. […]

What caused me to get celiac as an adult? The final trigger for me was vaccines. In 2006 I volunteered to go with my church on a mission trip to Haiti.

Vaccines Triggered My Adult-Onset Celiac Disease

I vividly remember a day in the spring of 2008. I was driving on University Parkway back to my job at USCA from having attended a meeting at USC Columbia. My head was pounding and my stomach was hurting. I was in such pain that I pulled over on the side of the road and […]

Do you have symptoms for which you do not know the underlying cause? Do not ignore them.

Symptoms: Know When to Walk Away or When to Run.

“You’ve got to know when to hold ’em,Know when to fold ’em,Know when to walk away,And know when to run.You never count your moneyWhen you’re sittin’ at the table.There’ll be time enough for countin’When the dealin’s done.” The Gambler by Kenny Rogers I met Kenny Rogers in 2007 at the USC Aiken Convocation Center. He was […]

Paleo Honey Biscuits

As most of my readers know, I have to eat both gluten-free and dairy-free due to severe food sensitivities. I do not eat bread for the most part, but sometimes I really want some type of bread or crackers. I recently made these great biscuits that are made with almond and coconut flours. This makes […]

Strawberries (and a Recipe, too)

Strawberries are my favorite fruit. They are also George Mateljan’s favorite fruit. Who?? George Mateljan, the author of The World’s Healthiest Foods and the website www.whfoods.org, rated strawberries as the most nutrient-rich fruit. In this book he rates 100 commonly eaten whole foods according to how many nutrients each type of food supplies per calorie. […]

Three Tips for Healthy Habit Change

I have been thinking a lot about habits recently and how to change unwanted ones. Those who know me well often tell me that they think I eat perfectly and that I do not have any eating problems. In a sense that is true because I do eat a very healthy diet. However, I have […]

Habit Stacking for Change

As I have talked with many people about nutrition, I learned that they usually know what they should eat. Their problem is actually doing it. They are not sure how to make the change to a healthy eating habit. I have been making a study of habit change in order to help others. My word for the […]

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