Choices in Childbirth benefit honoring Dr. Northrup & Christy Turlington-Burns

Pam Kirkbride and I have the pleasure of covering the Choices in Childbirth benefit hosted by Ricki Lake and honoring Dr.Christiane Northrup & Christy Turlington-Burns. It was wonderful to see Dr.Northrup speak with such poise about her work in women's wellness and have Christy Turlington-Burns share the awareness that her work in maternal health is teaching her, with the debut of her film on the OWN network "NO Woman, NO Cry" is receiving rave reviews. Dr. Northrup's best selling book Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom is my BIBLE! A new version of it was released just this May with all sorts of juicy updates. Please see the video above and the following links for more information about women's options in reproductive wellness, maternal care, birth options, and pleasure exploration.

Choices in Childbirth
Every Mother Counts
Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts
Dr. Christiane Northrup

To see the trailer for Christy's film: CLICK HERE

Latham's Healthy Style Feature on Vanessa Minnillo

I had the pleasure of attending the Girlfriends for Folate luncheon with March of Dimes and sit down with Ms.Vanessa Minnillo who is a huge advocate for folate and the spokesperson for the campaign. We talked about shoes, prenatal vitamins, advocacy, personal responsibility, and my nail polish- of course. Read the full article by clicking the link: http://www.healthystyleny.com/2011/03/is-newly-engaged-vanessa-manillo-looking-to-get-pregnant/

Join the cause and become a GFF (girlfriend for folate)- http://www.facebook.com/girlfriendsforfolate

Tender Shoots Wellness Presents Ready, Set, GLOW!

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 8:00 PM (ET)

Ready, Set, GLOW! : A journey into abundant living, spiritual fitness and healthy lifestyle. Latham Thomas - founder of Tender Shoots Wellness - will guide you through a 1 Hour TeleSeminar focused on getting your inner GLOW on! With Spring upon us, Latham will give her recommendations for a cleansing diet as we transition to Spring and share tips on how to nourish our bodies and honor our reproductive wellness. This is a must for women looking to prepare their bodies, minds and spirits for pregnancy. Get access to Latham's womb meditation specifically designed for attendees of the call.

Call-in information will be provided on the day of the call.

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1434944959/efblike

Latham quoted in VOUGE.com

I was really excited to hear from Molly Creeden that I was being selected as an expert for fitness/ nutrition for Vogue Daily in a piece on getting your beach body ready! The piece features some great experts including Kathy Freston, Marco Borges, and Kimberly Snyder. Click the link to read the feature- http://www.vogue.com/vogue-daily/article/back-to-beach-season/

Latham featured Yonigi in Alignment

I'm a featured yonigi in this week's Alignement. If you haven't made it down to my class yet what are you waiting for. Come check out the Anti-gravity yoga class that Victoria's Secret supermodel Doutzen Kroes, says is her favorite class in the city.

Class is at Om Factory 265 W.37th street near 8th ave on 17th floor
Mondays 12-1:15pm, lunch hour class. Turn your world upside down!
www.omfactorynyc.com

Click the link below to register.
https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/ASP/home.asp?studioid=1195

Read my musings and check out the classes I recommend throughout the city. Click the link below to read it all, register to get Alignment in your e-box delivered weekly.
http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=2ccac56fca532e7f470ab2924&id=8709e32552&e=5636a23e04

YFS Magazine Features Latham!

I had the pleasure of being featured in Young, Fabulous & Self Employed- YFS Magazine. Please check out the feature by clicking on the link below!

http://yfsentrepreneur.com/2011/03/18/the-wellness-revolution-go-green-for-busy-moms-and-land-on-dr-oz/

Get your GREEN on with my Collard Greens Ribbons!

GLORIOUS MEAN GREENS!

I'm always speaking about the various health benefits of greens and how in our SAD Standard Amercian Diet, we could really rev up the greens.
Our ancient ancestors would eat up to 6 pounds of leaves per day! Can you imagine eating a grocery bag full of greens daily? Few of us even eat the minimum USDA requirement of 3 cups of leafy greens per week. Greens are sexy so let's embrace them!

Dark green leafy vegetables are, calorie for calorie, perhaps the most concentrated source of nutrition of any food. They are a rich source of minerals (including iron, calcium, potassium, and magnesium) and vitamins, including vitamins K, C, E, and many of the B vitamins. They also provide a variety of phytonutrients including beta-carotene, lutein, and zeaxanthin, which protect our cells from damage and our eyes from age-related problems, among many other effects. Dark green leaves even contain small amounts of Omega 3 fats. They help to regulate blood sugar and break down fats, and cleanse the blood.
Perhaps the star of these nutrients is Vitamin K. A cup of most cooked greens provides at least nine times the minimum recommended intake of Vitamin K, and even a couple of cups of dark salad greens usually provide the minimum all on their own.

Vitamin K: (Pretty amazing stuff)

• Regulates blood clotting

• Helps protect bones from osteoporosis

• May help prevent and possibly even reduce atherosclerosis by reducing calcium in arterial plaques

• May be a key regulator of inflammation, and may help protect us from inflammatory diseases including arthitis

• May help prevent diabetes

• Vitamin K is a fat-soluble vitamin, so make sure to put dressing on your salad, or cook your greens with olive oil.

RECIPE:
This collard green recipe I am sharing was featured on the Dr.OZ Show (during one of my guest appearances) as a healthy alternative to Southern Style collard greens.

SAUTEED COLLARD GREEN RIBBONS
Using a chiffonade technique to slice the greens into ribbons, speeds up the cooking process. These greens are at their best when cooked 5 minutes, sauteed in olive oil, they maintain more nutrients that way and the vibrant green color. This technique can be used on all types of robust greens- kale, mustards, etc.

Serves 4 (Prep time 10 minutes)

2 bunches collard greens
1 tbsp olive oil
sea salt (to taste)
2 crushed cloves garlic (optional)
crushed red pepper

Wash the greens thoroughly and chop off the end stems. Take 3 collard leaves at a time, stack them together and roll them up width-wise. Hold in place against the cutting board and make 1/4 inch slices through the collard roll and place inside a large bowl, continue cutting the remainder of the greens this way. When you are done you should have a heap of collard ribbons.

Heat a pan on medium high, add the olive oil and swirl the pan to cover the entire surface if you are adding crushed garlic place it in the pan now, cook for two minutes and add the collard greens. Sprinkle about 2 tbsp of water over the greens stir around and cover for 4-5 minutes. Remove the lid, sprinkle sea salt and crushed red pepper, then mix the greens again. Serve hot.