It is no secret that healthy diets give you the energy to perform tasks and increase your lifespan, while unhealthy foods cause inflammatory diseases and drain your pockets with medications and surgeries. A healthy lifestyle indeed starts in the kitchen, but what should you not buy when in the supermarket? Which foods should be your…
Losing weight is an ever-ending battle for so many people, and it often feels like a constant sacrifice that is never enough. Eating restrictions creates resistance and food disorders that end up not feeding and nourishing your body and soul. Living in a “filter bubble” and a culture that focuses on body image rather than…
Kukuwa’s key to a fulfilling and happy life is moving your body, detoxing your body, and eating well. Kukuwa is a dancer, choreographer and founder of Kukuwa Fitness. She is 62 years old and has been dancing since she was 2 years of age. About 40 years ago, Kukuwa created her own dance fusion by…
For many of us, quarantine has led to weight gain because we’ve found comfort in food and sedentary activities like binge watching movies. In this episode of Modern Aging, host and integrative nutrition health coach Risa Morimoto walks through how to permanently lose the weight by implementing healthy lifestyle changes. At the top of her…
With so many diet options – keto diet, paleo diet, vegan, macrobiotic, vegetarian, flexitarian, pescatarian, and on and on and on. But, it’s not only about eating healthy food or clean eating. Having a healthy eating plan or weight less program to create a healthy lifestyle is only a part of the whole game plan….
Now that many of us have put on the Quarantine 15, summer is here and we are ready to shed off the pounds. Today, I am going to share some tips that will help you on your way. I’m Risa Morimoto your host where we chat about innovative and holistic ways to optimize our health…
Ice Cream is a favorite summertime snack for many of us. What’s not to love? It’s delicious! But unfortunately it also has very high added sugar and fat content (no wonder it tastes so good!). The large amount of added sugar and high saturated fat content in your ice cream (and so many other…
Getting a dementia diagnosis is one of the moment you hope never to experience. Although usually by the time you get to the doctor’s, you pretty much know as there are signs of Alzheimer’s Disease and signs of dementia along the way. Families need to know the diffences between vascular dementia, lewy body dementia, frontal…