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Daily Five By Tricia Williams
The Daily Five is your dose of healthy inspiration for the week from our favorite experts and thought leaders in the fields of nutrition, functional medicine, fitness and more! Starting with our founder @itstriciawilliams – Following our mantra, reach for the kitchen cabinet before the medicine cabinet, here are my top ingredients to help reduce inflammation:
1. Dark Leafy Greens
The salad bowl is the best place to look when it comes to fighting inflammation. Swiss chard, Tuscan Kale, Spinach, Arugula and Dandelion Greens are filled with vitamin E, an inflammation fighting anti-oxidant.
2. Tart Cherries
Either in season or frozen, cherries are high in quercetin, a flavonoid that reduces inflammation. Can’t find cherries, look for tart cherry extract. Enjoy it by the spoonful or mix it with sparkling water for a cherry soda!
3. Fresh Turmeric
We love to ferment fresh turmeric into a slaw and serve it over wild salmon. Curcumin is what gives turmeric it’s deep yellow color and fights inflammation.
4. Raw Walnuts
High in Omega-3s. Add them to a dark leafy green salad or snack on them. For plant based diets walnuts are a great way to add both omega-3s and protein.
5. Wild Salmon
One of the sources of Omega-3s on the planet. This ultimate fatty fish is great pan seared or slow roasted in the oven.
Tricia Williams
Tricia Williams is passionate about the power of food and personal wellbeing. Tricia is an accomplished celebrity chef, nutrition educator and consultant who has left her mark as a chef on some of New York’s best restaurants. Her love of the culinary arts and the power of food surfaced after she gave birth to her first son. She returned to school to study holistic nutrition and earned a Food Therapy Certification from Annemarie Colbin at the Natural Gourmet Institute. She then founded Food Matters, a custom health supportive meal service, to share her passion for food and its effects on physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing. Daily Dose is the culmination of a lifelong passion to bring the joy of eating healthy back to the kitchen table, to use kitchen as pharmacy, to promote the wellbeing of individuals, and to help restore the earth. Tricia has built an ever-expanding team of like-minded practitioners in health, science, fitness, and farming to bring these goals to fruition.
Today, in addition to running Daily Dose, Tricia consults for a variety of brands in the health and wellness space. You can find her recipes in Bon Appetit’s popular Junk Food Makeover and Yahoo Health. Her latest recipes will be published in Dr. David Perlmutter’s upcoming book, Drop Acid. She is also a recurring judge on Food Network’s Beat Bobby Flay.
Food as Medicine for Woman’s Health
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” said Hippocrates over 2400 years ago. This idea still rings true today.
What you fill your refrigerator with may be a bigger determinant of health than what’s in your medicine cabinet. Most of us eat at least three times per day. That’s at least three opportunities to nourish our bodies with food that creates health, supports hormones, and makes us feel our best.
Exactly How & Why You Should Detox
If you’ve upleveled your nutrition and still aren’t seeing or feeling results, toxins could be the culprit. The toxins we face daily has increased tenfold in the last centuries.
Indulging without the Guilt
One of our top goals when working with clients is helping them find a happy balance to enjoy their guilty pleasures without having the guilt afterwards.
Clients can have their cake and eat it too by creating structure around their indulgences.
Our head of nutrition, Erin Parekh said it best when on vacation:
“Embracing every morsel of my crispy fries and red wine brought great joy, but the truth is, I never fully went “off plan”. This made it easy to get back on track after vacation and still feel great after having my indulgences”.
Here are SWW’s tips on how to enjoy your indulgences and still stick to your meal plan to keep you on track.