Deborah Phillips, Author at The Berkshire Edge

Deborah Phillips

Deborah Phillips is a licensed nutritionist with a private practice in Great Barrington; she also is one of the nutritionists at the Ultrawellness Center in Lenox. She is passionate about sharing her food knowledge with others and using it to help them achieve better health.

Articles from Deborah Phillips

Life In the Berkshires

Appalachian Trail Community Day may be canceled this year, but celebrating natural resources is as important as ever

This year, due to the complications of COVID-19, we are not celebrating, but it is clear that our relationship to the Appalachian Trail and to our natural resources is a crucial one.

Deborah Phillips

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EAT WELL / LIVE WELL: It’s OK… (Passover and Easter conversations)

Deprivation is not the key to healthy eating, satiety is. And satiety is a complex condition. It has both physical and emotional components.

Deborah Phillips

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EAT WELL, LIVE WELL: Eating alone

You’re worth it. Just because it’s just you doesn’t mean it’s not worth cooking a meal.

Deborah Phillips

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EAT WELL, LIVE WELL: Holiday food anxiety

The most important thing to remember is that just because you allowed yourself a treat (or two or three) today does not mean you have blown it for the season. Make sure you get lots of sleep. Make tim

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EAT WELL, LIVE WELL: How to feed an aging brain and body

Healthy aging is basically about taking care of ourselves. The nutrients that fuel a healthy body also fuel a healthy brain.

Deborah Phillips

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EAT WELL / LIVE WELL: A practical guide to food allergies

We certainly may be getting better at diagnosing allergies but, additionally, there are many things about our modern way of life that may make us more vulnerable to them.

Deborah Phillips

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EAT WELL/ LIVE WELL: It’s spring. Detoxify yourself

When you are feeling congested, fatigued, burdened, you may want to look at cleaning up the toxic load on your system.

Deborah Phillips

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EAT WELL / LIVE WELL: Food is your best medicine

Seventy percent of your immune system resides in your gut. So what we eat can have a major impact on how our immune system functions

Deborah Phillips

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EAT WELL, LIVE WELL: Superfoods – and an everyday super recipe

We have driven ourselves to somehow believe that there is a magic bullet to perfect health, perfect life and the stress of not finding it only contributes to our sense of dissatisfaction.

Deborah Phillips

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EAT WELL / LIVE WELL: What’s a body to do? Navigating the food supply

Much of the food we eat is nutritionally deficient and most packaged food is filled with chemicals that the human system is unfamiliar with at best, and at risk from more often.

Deborah Phillips

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