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Weight Loss Building Blocks: Start with Your Health
I hope you’ll think twice about blaming yourself if you’ve ever started a diet and not kept it up. The truth is that almost everyone who goes on a diet fails. The fault lies less with personal weakness and more with the narrowness of the “diet-only” approach. It’s unrealistic. A diet alone is simply not enough to walk you through the weight loss process. read article
The Basic "Why's?" and "How's" of Juicing
For the body to heal itself from degenerative diseases, we need to assist it by consuming the best quality foods available. Keep in mind that it is the body that orchestrates healing as it obtains energy and nutritional components from the foods we eat daily. The fastest way to reverse/heal from degenerative diseases is to drink fruit smoothies and juice your vegetables. I personally experienced incredible healing results from chronically infected eczema; a disease I battled for years, when I started to replace my regular cooked meals with fruits smoothies and vegetable juices. read article
Staying healthy is really a very simple matter. The reason we are seeing a rise in health problems is that we seem to have forgotten the rules. One of the most basic laws of life is: "That which came first gives life and sustenance to that which comes after." Bacteria were the first living organisms on earth. And just as you might suspect, certain species of bacteria are the foundation of our health. You may know these bacteria by their specific name or you may legitimately lump them together under the broad name of Probiotic or life-giving bacteria. read article
Lately, I’ve been pleasantly surprised when I hear my little boy and his friends talk about food. They are now stating ” We need to eat colorful foods Mom.”. Those are the healthy ones.” Okay! I will not argue with that! In our house, as hard as we tried to keep the food varied, our son, Finn started wanting only “white” foods. You can imagine my interest when he came home from school with his new colorful resolve. read article
There is so much discussion regarding what to do after a problem or disease situation arises in the breasts. Very little is offered up about how to actually take care of and nurture them-possibly preventing these problems in the first place. Whether you are male or female, this topic is important to you. All of the following suggestions are applicable and valuable to everyone, male/female, young/old, healthy or facing health challenges. read article
We in the medical profession, totally oblivious of the vital roles of cholesterol in the body, have been duped into thinking that it is this substance that causes arterial disease of the heart and the brain. read article
The nutritional principles (a health model) of the supplements I recommend come from a company called CTI and they address the following nutritional needs with their line of supplements: better digestion and assimilation of foods through the use of probiotics and enzyme supplements; better nutrition through nutrient rich food supplements and; increased protection against free radical damage (oxidative stress) through whole food antioxidant supplements. read article
With the advent of Superfoods in my family’s lives, we very rarely (if ever) get any serious viruses. If we do get sick, it’s usually a mild version of what is floating around. It is highly unusual for any of us to get anything that keeps us down. read article
Water: the Ultimate Health Food
Like most people, I have tended to think of ultimate health as a complicated, often expensive aspiration. Perhaps it is our Western tendency to intellectualize and complicate things that has driven us down the wrong road. We somehow think our goals need to be HARD and relatively unattainable in order to be valid. But as I have pursued this goal over the years, I have found the exact opposite to be true. It’s truly the simpler, basic ideas that serve as the true foundation for wellness. And nothing proves this out better than the fact that water is the most essential nutrient required by our bodies. read article
Must You Suffer From Allergies?
Here in Southern California, spring has definitely arrived and everything is blooming prolifically due to the unusually wet season we had this year. For some of us, it is just a joy to see all the colors and plant varieties, but for others it is a very challenging time for their health due to allergies.
