Our Blog: Recipes, Research, and Resources
Our Blog: Recipes, Research, and Resources
Finding Balance with IBS with Nutrition Strategies for Flares & Everyday Gut Health
If you live with IBS, you know it’s more than just a “sensitive stomach.” It can shape your entire day…what you eat, where you go, and how confident you feel in your own body. At McDaniel Nutrition, we meet people every week who’ve stopped going to social events or...
Nourishing Fertility: How Food Supports Reproductive Health
When it comes to fertility, there’s no single “magic food.” But research continues to show that what we eat can influence hormone balance, egg and sperm quality, and overall reproductive health. Nutrition is one of the most modifiable factors we can control, offering...
Listening to the Rhythms…That Already Know What to Do
We have a tiny outdoor pond on our patio that came with the house. We do our best to keep the fish alive that came with it. Turns out, that’s harder than it sounds—none of the current goldfish are the originals. We’ve learned the hard way that to keep them happy, they...
The Healing Work of Sending Kids Into Nature
We had been building up to the month-long camp in Minnesota for our three boys. The older two had attended last year, but this was the first year for our youngest. There were options to ride a bus with other kids, but since it was his first time, we decided to go as a...
Sitting With the Struggle: How to Talk to Our Kids About Body Image
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing someone whose work I’ve long admired on social media: Oona Hanson. She specializes in addressing diet culture and eating disorders, two topics that are so important—and often challenging—to discuss. In this post, I’m...
A Farmers Market Reset: A Tired Mom’s Reminder on Connection
With my husband and two older boys in Florida for 10 days, it was just me and my youngest son back home in St. Louis. He wasn’t thrilled, to say the least. His brothers were off having fun, and he stayed back for summer school, something we had chosen as a family to...
Gut Check: 5 Top Gut Health Myths Demystified!
It Happens to Us All… A couple of weeks ago, my son and I went out for a special mama-son dinner at an Italian restaurant on The Hill—his request for his 14th birthday. Afterward, we headed to a concert (we saw Caamp, if you’re curious ;), and by the end of the night,...
Happy Birthday, McDaniel Nutrition!
This month McDaniel Nutrition celebrates our 14th birthday. I’m not so great at remembering dates, but thanks to the fact that the birth of my oldest son and the birth of this company happened around the same time, it sticks. It was 2011 when I left a full-time...
What Helped Me Sleep Again (and Might Help You, Too) Book Review!
I Stopped Chasing the Sleep Sheep! I talk about sleep a lot with my clients. Because let’s face it—if you’re not sleeping, it’s hard to make progress on any other wellness goal. To me, sleep is the key that unlocks everything else. And it’s true for...
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