8 Tips For Sticking To Your Healthy Diet During The Holiday Feasting Season

• Dr. Nana Kwaku Opare and Ama Opare
• Dec 14, 2012

Worried about the holiday feasting season derailing your focus on eating healthy? Here are 8 tips to help keep you on track

Three Desk Yoga Poses To De-Stress At The Office

• Dr. Nana Kwaku Opare and Ama Opare
• Sep 24, 2012

Here are three yoga poses you can do at your desk to help ease the stress on tension you may feel in the back, neck and shoulders.

Where Do Vegetarians Get Their Protein?

• Dr. Nana Kwaku Opare and Ama Opare
• Jul 29, 2012

As a physician who is and advocates a vegan diet I'll answer the question I hear most often "Where do you get your protein?"

How To Use A Food Journal As A Tool For Better Health

• Dr. Nana Kwaku Opare and Ama Opare
• Jul 18, 2012

Recent news reports highlight the importance of keeping a food journal for weight loss. This has been a part of my approach to healing for many years. Here are the instructions we give to patients.

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10 Tips For Eating Healthy While Traveling

• Dr. Nana Kwaku Opare and Ama Opare
• May 25, 2012

With a bit of planning you can maintain your healthy eating while traveling. Here are 10 tips to make your trip fun, tasty AND healthy!

Vegan? Vegetarian? Raw Food? What's The Difference?

• Dr. Nana Kwaku Opare and Ama Opare
• May 20, 2012

The term vegetarian has different meanings to different people. Let's get some clarification and make sense out of the different terms you might hear.

Yes You Can! Grow Your Own Food

• Dr. Nana Kwaku Opare and Ama Opare
• May 10, 2012

Planting and growing your own fresh fruits and veggies is gaining popularity. Even those of us who are city dwellers or inexperienced gardeners can grow their own fresh organic produce.

What Your Doctor Can't And Won't Tell You About Your Diabetes

• Dr. Nana Kwaku Opare and Ama Opare
• Apr 18, 2012

The crucial and most important fact your doctor can’t and won’t tell you about your diabetes — its cause and how to cure it.

Taking Our Place On The Mat - Yoga In The Black Community

• Dr. Nana Kwaku Opare and Ama Opare
• Apr 13, 2012

The popular view of yoga is seen through a filter of white dominated media. There is much more to yoga. In fact, yoga's roots are African. There’s a place for Blacks on the yoga mat and in a class.

Signs That You Are Ready To Break Your Fast (part 2)

• Dr. Nana Kwaku Opare and Ama Opare
• Apr 4, 2012

Knowing when to break your juice fast requires listening to your body. In Part 2 of breaking your fast I will share signs you body will give you that it is time to break your fast.