Happy New Year!

After indulging in the stuffing and pies, you should be hitting the treadmills and getting back into the groove of your regular eating habits. But most of us need a little jumpstart to shake off that sugar high and lose those 5 pounds that crept into your pants in the last month!

The host at a talk I did a few years back introduced me as an "Organic" Nutritionist. A holistic nutritionist or clinical nutritionist I am, but Organic? I thought it was cute and funny but wondered, would I, if I were meat or produce, be able to be called "organic"?


Well, what is the criteria to be certified organic? According to wikipedia, organic certification "generally involve a set of production standards for growing, storage, processing, packaging and shipping that include: