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The Benefits of Cleansing
Each year when spring comes, bringing its new blossoms, budding trees, and cleansing rains, I recognize within myself a desire to start anew, start fresh, to cleanse my body of the heavier proteins and fats I ate during winter, and eat the fresh new foods that spring has to offer. I see spring as an opportunity to reset the body and put into place healthy eating patterns for the summer months ahead. Our bodies go into a natural phase of...
Post on Wed, Apr 21, 2010 by Ellen Kittredge
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Simple Ways to Support Female Reproductive Health
Eat well – make sure you have a varied diet, with good fats (omega -3 rich, as in flax and fish oils) and lots of color! It’s especially important to support your liver with lots of dark leafy greens, fiber and liver-supportive herbs. It’s your liver’s job to process all of your hormones and if...
Post on Tue, Apr 13, 2010 by Margo Gladding
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What Should I Eat?
For many people trying to improve their diets, it can be maddening trying to understand what constitutes a healthy diet. Low fat? Sugar Free? No Cholesterol? High protein? Fad diets offer confusion and misguidance. To make matters worse, everywhere we go, we are inundated with refined, packaged and processed foods. While these options make life...
Post on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 by Margo Gladding
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How Eczema Changed My Life ... For the Better
I took an interesting path to becoming a nutrition counselor at Village Green Apothecary. My story may help others who are suffering from health problems that conventional doctors are unable to help. About 7 years ago, I was diagnosed with severe eczema. I had rashes all...
Post on Wed, Mar 31, 2010 by Naz Amini
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Water: Miracle Cure?
One of the easiest ways to keep your body healthy from the inside, out is to drink clean, uncontaminated water every day. Water is such a critical component of our health and physiology that if the body doesn’t get enough of it, on a regular basis, damage can occur to tissues, bones, muscles, and blood...
Post on Wed, Mar 24, 2010 by Naz Amini
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Diet and Fertility
Sunday, I curled up on the couch to watch "Life," an 11 part documentary on Discovery Channel about just that: "LIFE." It takes a look at all living things on earth and the challenges they face everyday. It is an amazing show and definitely a must-see. One particular moment struck me. There was a lizard...
Post on Tue, Mar 23, 2010 by Paula Gallagher
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Red Wine for Slim Waistline
My parents are European, and as far as I can remember red wine has been at the table with meals. In fact, my father makes his own wine every September from scratch. Picks his grapes, squishes them in his garage and presses that yummy juice into barrels where it ferments for months before being bottled...
Post on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 by Paula Gallagher
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March – Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer affecting men and women in the United States. The risk increases with age (>50 years), but when caught early is often curable. Risk factors include: polyps found in the colon or rectum, high fat diet, family history of colorectal cancer, and inflammatory conditions such as ulcerative colitis...
Post on Mon, Mar 01, 2010 by Margo Gladding
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The Disappearing Male: Are Chemicals to Blame?
So I am on a documentary kick right now. Here is another documentary that demonstrates the link between chemicals like Bisphenol A (BPA) and their effect on male genes. Currently, the FDA has not banned use of BPA (found in many plastics, can linings, etc.), even though they are now "warning" the public...
Post on Fri, Jan 29, 2010 by Paula Gallagher
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Food Allergy Testing
Food allergies are no fun. They can result in an immediate reaction such as anaphylaxis, wheezing and or hives. There can also be delayed reactions that the body has in response to certain foods. Many people have food sensitivities but are unaware of them. Fatigue, mood swings, runny nose, forgetfulness and digestive symptoms, like gas...
Post on Tue, Dec 15, 2009 by Paula Gallagher
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