Annie B. Kay

• The Top Food and Nutrition Trends for 2020

  There’s lots of good news in food, as the impact of yoga and Ayurveda on our food supply continues to grow. Kripalu nutritionist Annie B. Kay reports.

• Can Processed Foods Be Healthy? Navigating Our Convenience Food Environment

  Fresh food is good, refined food is evil, right? Not quite.

• 4 Ways to Savor the Act of Eating

  Life is busy—filled with gadgets and tasks and calendars. Yet, no matter what else you're doing, you are called to honor the needs of your animal body a few times each day.

• The Straight Dope on Marijuana: Health Benefits and Negative Impacts

  Here’s what to be aware of as you consider incorporating marijuana products into your medicine—or kitchen—cabinet.

• Ending the Stress-Eating Cycle

  According to the American Psychological Association, about one-third of us habitually eat in response to stress. The nutritional impact of stress is profound.

• The Biggest Food and Nutrition Trends for 2019

  Food trends—the meta-shifts apparent at trade shows and in food media—tell us something about ourselves through the lens of our eating aspirations. Annie B. Kay shares the latest.

• Healthy Hydration: The Science and Spirit of Water

  For active people, the early signs of dehydration can develop quickly into more serious warnings. Annie B. Kay shares tips for getting enough water.

• The Art of Meal Planning: Five Steps from Hungry to Healthy

  In another study proving what we already knew, researchers at Johns Hopkins found that those who cook at home eat a much healthier diet than those who don’t.

• Natural Flu Prevention

  Nutritionist Annie B. Kay shares a few ways to ward off flu season and boost your body's immune system naturally.

• Nutrition Notes: Sprouts for Spring

  Photo Courtesy of Flickr User allspice1 The world awakens earlier, and life sprouts all around us now. Accept spring’s invitation to lighten up by cleaning...

• Five Easy Sustainable-Nutrition Practices: Good for the Planet and Good for You

  Can your food actions impact climate change—does what you do really matter? Scientists have a clear and resounding consensus: Yes.

• Kripalu Faculty Recipe: Asian Slaw

  Everyone should have a vegetable-based recipe or two that takes—snap!—that long, for a quick meal or snack.

• The Art of Packing Lunch: Six Nutrition-Boosting Tips

  One way to take care of yourself and your family is to pack beautiful and balanced lunches—gifts you make by hand to be unwrapped throughout the day.

• The Mediterranean Diet

  Wondering if the Mediterranean diet is for you?

• Eating Tips for a Good Night's Sleep

  Sleep, your mental state, and what you eat go hand-in-hand, says nutritionist Annie B. Kay.

• How to Eat in Harmony with Your Circadian Rhythms

  A recent review study reveals that, when it comes to the timing of meals, genetics and nutritional science are reading from the book of Ayurveda.

• The Year in Food, and What’s Ahead

  Kripalu presenter and leading integrative dietitian Annie B. Kay gives us her take on the food trends of 2017, and a glimpse of where we'll go in 2018.

• A Deeper Detox Experience

  The Kripalu approach to detox involves self-inquiry and a flexible framework to create the process that works best for you.

• Eat Clean for Less

  Clean organic produce is more widely available than ever before, yet whenever I check out at my whole foods grocery, I imagine my father (a rural farmer cash...

• Nutrition Notes: Have Fun with Flavor

  Play with the flavor palate of whole foods by thinking beyond sugar and salt and invigorate your favorite recipes. There are classic flavor combinations...

• The Art and Science of Mindful Eating

  Mindful eating is a mindfulness meditation practice that has the ability to transform your relationship with food and eating, says Kripalu faculty Annie B. Kay.

• Tastes of Thanksgiving

  This Thanksgiving, I invite you to mindfully savor friends, family, and the full range of tastes you encounter on your plate and in your life!

• Nutrition Notes: The Nutritional Benefits of Grains

  Grains have a wealth of benefits to offer, from fiber to plant proteins to phytonutrients and B vitamins. There is a caveat, however. You can only reap these...

• The Intimate Relationship Between Food and Mental Health

  The food choices you make intimately impact your mental health and well-being. Kripalu Lead Nutritionist Annie B. Kay looks at the latest research.

• A Warm Cup of Healing: Tea and Coffee for Winter Health

  As winter’s chill deepens, warming, flavorful aromatic drinks offer comfort and health. Annie B. Kay offers the latest science on the wellness benefits of our favorite cuppas.

• A Five-Step Ritual to Digest the Past: Making Space for Intentions that Last

  Kripalu faculty and presenter Annie B. Kay offers a practice for bringing awareness and compassionate self-examination to your year gone by.

• The Mind-Belly Connection

  The mind and the digestive system are deeply connected.

• Healthy Eating: A Dance of Physiology, Emotion, and Habits

  A deeper understanding of our own physiology, in combination with a mindful perspective, can alleviate suffering around what we eat, and yield more effective and lasting change.

• Nutrition Notes: The Power of Plant Protein

  To keep your body in balance, choose a plant-based diet, specifically one that emphasizes nuts, beans, whole grains, and vegetables.

• Transformation and Transmutation: What I’ve Learned from Composting

  Composting is a philosophy, says Kripalu nutritionist Annie B. Kay. You have to buy in—it’s a long-term process, not an insta-health situation.

• Herbal Wisdom for Nutrition and Healing

  If you get inspired by the prospect of getting to know plants and their healing gifts, that’s the herbalist within you.

• Sugar: America’s Favorite—and Most Dangerous?—Drug

  In early 2012, Kripalu’s Healthy Living department held a series of lectures for the community on nutrition and lifestyle medicine. Because I focus primarily...

• Demystifying Detox: A Natural Approach

  The concept of detox seems to speak to our very nature. From the story of Jesus in the desert to the holy days of Ramadan, the appeal of purification through...

• How Plants Help Create a Healthy Internal Environment

  Plant-based diets provide rich antioxidant support, cool inflammation, aid blood sugar regulation, and support the body’s natural detoxification processes.

• Kripalu Faculty Recipe: Tahini Dressing

  This quick and easy dressing is ideal for serving over cooked or raw greens, sprouts, carrots, peppers, and scallions.

• Probiotics and Why Bacteria is Good for You

  Benefits of the bacteria in our digestive tract, also referred to as gut microflora, have gotten a lot of attention in the scientific community lately.

• The Food-Mood Connection

  What you eat impacts how you feel on the physical, energetic, emotional, and mental levels.

• Summertime Phytonutrients

  Summer is perfect for opening our senses to all that’s fresh and local. Choosing produce grown close to home yields great taste, supports your community’s...

• Natural Strategies to Build Your Cancer Resilience

  An integrative dietitian and yoga therapist with a family history of cancer, Annie B. Kay thinks about her own cancer resilience in yogic terms—the dance between willful effort (the next right proactive step) and surrender (accepting what comes).

• Six Tips for Eating Clean Without Going Overboard

  A diet filled with clean, nutrient-dense, whole foods seems like the way to go, individually and globally. But an enthusiastic backlash has been lobbed at clean eating and those who promote it.

• Observing Weight through Witness Consciousness

  Often, a client comes to me wanting to lose weight, plops down in my office, and says, “When I’m good, I eat this, and when I’m bad, I eat that.” This report...

• 5 Ways to Embrace Winter, Kripalu-Style

  Create new, healthy routines, learn how to take cold-weather comfort food to the next level, and adventure into the snow-covered woods this winter at Kripalu.

• The Dirty Dozen and the Clean 15: What to Buy Organic

  Start off your year organic! The Environmental Working Group has released its 2019 list of produce containing the highest and least amounts of pesticides.

• Is Your Diet Making You Anxious or Depressed?

  Food and mood are intimately linked, and there are a few key culprits that may be having a significant effect on your mental state.

• Occupy Yourself

    I'm beside myself with worry. I can see my mother standing at the kitchen sink in our childhood house, her hands immersed in soapsuds, proclaiming this. It...

• Daily Detox in Five Easy Steps

  Two Kripalu experts offer simple, everyday tips for healthy eating with a detox-minded approach.

• Five Healthy Living Tips for Achieving Balance

  When it comes to healthy living, self-care is the first step, says Kripalu faculty Aruni Nan Futuronsky.

• The Joy of Cooking

  “I always think of cooking as empowering, and compare it to having a practice like yoga,” says Kripalu Executive Chef Jeremy Rock Smith.

• Eight Mindful-Eating Tips for the Holidays

  There are so many distractions—external and internal—that pull us away from the experience of just tasting and enjoying our food. Mindful eating is the practice of returning to the moment.

• Vitamin D: On the D List?

  Vitamin D has been the subject of great debate in recent years, with most experts agreeing we’re dangerously deficient but little consensus regarding just...

• The Path of Personal Growth

  As interpreted through the lens of yoga, personal growth is a gradual and permanent shift in how we relate to ourselves and to the world.

• Nutritional Health: What We Eat and How We Eat

  Not only what we eat, but how we eat, plays a big role in nutritional health.

• Drinking Tea for Good Health

  Today, tea is one of the most widely consumed beverages on the planet, with many people and cultures ascribing to it benefits of tranquility and healing.

• Gluten and Your Gut

  Even if you don't have celiac disease or a full-blown wheat or gluten allergy, you can still have a reaction to eating gluten.

• Gaining to Lose: The Additive Approach to Weight Management

  I don’t know about you, but when I hear the word “diet,” what I really hear is “deprivation.” Having been on array of diets over the last 30 years (I started...

• DIY Detox

  A gentle seasonal detox can leave you feeling more energetic, less stressed, and physically refreshed. Detoxes are showing up everywhere these days—from the...

• 5 Yoga and Ayurveda Tips for Happy, Healthy Travel

  Get ready for the road with yoga and Ayurveda tools that can counteract some of the common physical and emotional issues that often come with travel.

• No Shame

  Acceptance and appreciation are much more powerful catalysts to making positive shifts than shame and guilt.

• Detox for Regaining Balance

  Detox is a process of balancing on the physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels.

• Changing Your Relationship with Food

  It’s not until you understand what you’re putting in your mouth, and why, that your relationship with food can truly transform.

• The Yoga of Nutrition

  How does yoga philosophy apply to healthful eating? According to Kripalu Lead Nutritionist, Annie B. Kay, MS, RD, RYT, in her R&R retreat lecture, The...

• How to Eat in Summer, According to Ayurveda

  In hot temperatures, pitta (one of the three Ayurvedic doshas, or qualities) can get out of balance, leading to skin irritation, indigestion, and frustration. Here are six tips for choosing foods that cool your body and calm your mood.

• Practices for the Season of Blossoming: Yoga and Ayurveda for Springtime

  Yoga and Ayurveda teach us to be fully present and engaged as we shift seasons and open to new perspectives.

• Practicing Progress, Not Perfection

  The journey of healthy weight management is one of rebalancing and recommitting to what we’re really hungry for.

• The Truth About Weight Loss

  Weight loss isn’t just about what to eat and what not to eat. It’s about paying attention to how and why we make our choices.

• The Inner Work of Weight Management

  Like so many, I’ve spent most of my life battling the same 10 or 15 pounds, losing them with great pride only to gain the weight back again and berate myself...

• Ask the Expert: Bite by Bite

  In this edition of Ask the Expert, Kripalu’s Lead Nutritionist, Annie B. Kay, answers your questions. An integrative dietitian and a Kripalu Yoga teacher,...

• The Benefits of Yoga for Diabetes

  Science has shown that elements of yoga help to manage stress and can be part of a lifestyle that may improve blood sugar levels.

• Not All Detoxes Are Created Equal

  A safe way to detox is an elimination diet, in which you eliminate sugar, eggs, grains, dairy, meat, and caffeine for five days, and observe what happens.

• Trusting in Moderation

  Having a self-connecting practice is essential to developing self-acceptance, which can help apply healthy moderation.

• The Practice of Gratitude

  How will you practice gratitude this holiday season?

• A New Way to Find Your Healthy Weight

  Why do so many of us struggle to maintain a healthy weight? One of the top culprits, says integrative nutritionist Annie B. Kay, MS, RD, RYT, in her R&R...

• Cilantro: 10 Ways to Use the Superfood

    Adored by many, loathed by some, cilantro can be used in countless ways to enhance chilly winter days with a tasty dose of nutrition. Often used in...

• Rx on Your Spice Shelf: Using Herbs as Medicine

  Each herb on your kitchen spice shelf has medicinal uses that go far beyond the soup pot.

• The Summer Foodie

  One of the best things about summer is eating fresh produce in season. When it's local and organic, that's even better.

• Yoga and Mindfulness for Healthy Weight

  Yoga and mindfulness are powerful tools for weight management, because they cultivate body awareness.

• Detox and Eliminating Your Toxic Load

  Seeing detox as a playful way to experiment with eating, instead of a weeklong sacrifice, has given me helpful information for incorporating long-term change...

• Eating for Good Behavior

  What’s really causing your kids’ ADHD? Here’s some food for thought—literally.

• Kripalu Recipe: Corn Chowder

  Kripalu Lead Nutritionist Annie B. Kay has plenty of good things to say about this classic bowlful.

• Trading New Year’s Resolutions for New Year’s Intentions

  Setting and reaching goals isn’t strictly about self-discipline or willpower; it’s about intention and finding pleasure in pursuing what matters to you.

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