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What if I told you there was a particular food group, which has been mislabeled as unhealthy, that is delicious, satisfying, and helps you get rid of excess pounds? Would you be interested in trying it out?
No one food can make us healthy by itself. But high quality saturated fat [...]
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Do your kids (or even the grownups in your house) love vegetables? Do they go for color—tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, lettuce—or do they prefer white—macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, pasta—until it comes to colorful candy wrappers?
The idea that children don’t like healthy food is perpetuated by a sad truth: many [...]
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Check out this great article I read on General Wellness Buzz.
10 Reasons Why Flu Shots Are More Dangerous Than a Flu
The verdict is out on flu shots. Many medical experts now agree it is more important to protect yourself and your family from the flu vaccine than the flu itself. Let’s take a look at [...]
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This Halloween, try some chocolate that’s actually good for you! Raw cacao is recognized as a “superfood,” any one of a number of foods including blueberries that contain highly concentrated and beneficial nutritional properties, or phytonutrients.
“The cacao bean has always been and will always be Nature’s #1 weight loss and high-energy [...]
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Milk is considered by many a healthy food. Milk has in essence replaced water in the UDSA food pyramid, which urges Americans to have three cups every day. We’re urged to drink milk like it’s water mainly because of the benefit of calcium. But when health experts say that you need calcium [...]
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Recently I congratulated America on making recent changes to improve our health and that of the planet: winning the war against Big Tobacco and implementing reusable grocery bags. I have more good news! Americans are consuming less corn syrup than we have in 20 years! Congratulations are in order.
However, this isn’t [...]
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Studies Show Radiation from Mammograms Can Cause Breast Cancer
We’re coming to the time of year again when breast cancer awareness month approaches, pink ribbons plaster our cities, thousands gather to walk or run for stricken loved ones and we “hope” for a cure . . . someday . . . of [...]
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When it comes to our health and the health of the planet, it’s easy to be negative about the current state of things. Americans are sicker than we’ve ever been before—and so is our planet, all largely because of our own irresponsibility.
However, right now I want to specifically call attention [...]
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WHATS THE DEAL WITH THE FLU SHOT?
Do you find it odd that flu shots are so common in this country? Not only common, but readily available? You can get them everywhere—CVS, Walgreens, WalMart, the grocery store. Free clinics are set up: they are giving this immunization away like it was candy, despite that [...]
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Labor Days
As I prepared to relax and celebrate this year, my thoughts as usual turned to the ironic name of this annual holiday. But this time, I wondered how many people were actually not working.
It’s pretty clear that as technology makes our lives easier, it also carries with it complications. [...]
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Who Is Responsible?
With egg and ground beef recalls making national news, it’s hard not to question corporate agriculture in America. Books like Fast Food Nation and even The Jungle long before it have long since exposed, questioned, and criticized unsafe mass production of animal products in this country, yet it doesn’t [...]
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Cabbage-chino
1 ½ cups organic almond milk
1 wedge cabbage
2 oz raw cane sugar
1 tbs raw cacao powder
1 tsp organic pure vanilla extract
1 tsp Caffix crystals (coffee substitute)
1-2 cups of ice
Add all ingredients into blender or vitamix. Mix and Enjoy.
Spicy Tacos
1 ½ cup organic walnuts
1 ½ tsp cumin
¾ tsp coriander
4 tsp Braggs Liquid Aminos
Dash of cayenne pepper
Add [...]
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Back to School Made Easy
What characterizes your back to school season? Do you have a routine down for getting the kids up, dressed, and on the bus or in the car, or does every morning bring something unexpected? Regardless, here are three tips to help your entire family start off [...]
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25 Ideas for Packing School Lunches
It’s getting to be that time of year again–the time that kids dread and parents tend to love. It’s time to head back to school!
You’ve bought new school clothes, notebooks, pencils, even a new backpack (check www.backpacksafety.com) for tips on preventing long-term injury to the spine from backpacks). But [...]
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Last week I came across an article about childhood obesity that stated “1 in 3 children born today expected to develop type 2 diabetes in their lifetimes.” It also stated that “the two major ‘weapons’ now deployed in the fight—moderate lifestyle interventions designed to reduce weight, and drug therapies to slow the progression of diabetes—are [...]
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Breast Cancer-Are we really being preventative?
I was so sad to read about the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act being proposed. If passed, this bill would allow women (and men, who account for 2% of all cases) to stay in the hospital for a few days following a mastectomy, instead of being sent home directly after [...]
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Another great raw class last night! Always awesome incorporating raw principles into our diet and learning how to make quick and tasty nutritious meals for our families. The more raw foods we can implement into our diet the better. God made foods are always better and nutrient packed than packaged, boxed, canned, and frozen foods. [...]
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Too Much Information:
To Be Healthy, or Not to Be Healthy
We live in a society that bombards us with all kinds of ideas about health. Television commercials encourage us to ask our doctors about the latest prescription medication to relieve our depression, insomnia, acid reflux, or cholesterol. Fast food companies tell us to eat their low-calorie [...]
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Really enjoyed our patient appreciation day last week, and were able to collect great donations to our food drive with East Cooper Community Outreach. You all did so great at teaming up with us to give back to the community! Thanks again! We were also able to reach out and change so many lives through [...]
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Thanks to all of you who attended the Home Detox Class this week! We had a great class learning about what hidden toxins can be lurking in your home, and harming your loved ones. Small actions step will help you as you transition to safer, chemical free products and lifestyle. Heres some good places to [...]
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Free Radicals are THE Cause of Skin Damage/Aging, Antioxidants are the Prevention and the Cure
Great article, guest post by Debra on June 27, 2010
www.debandjohn.myshaklee.com
Scientists now know, disease begins first at the cellular level. It is free radicals that attack your skin, and cause damage to your skin cell’s DNA. These damaged/toxic cells then reproduce more [...]
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Your Chiropractor Could be Your Newest Antioxidant
Most people associate chiropractors with pain management, but the practice of chiropractic truly operates on the premise that the work removes blockages to the body’s natural health and healing abilities. This includes removing pressure from nerves that relay signals from the brain to the organs and systems of the body.
In [...]
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New Bombshell of Disastrous Side Effects from Statins
Doctors are being warned to think more carefully about prescribing cholesterol-lowering drugs by researchers who have found a wide range of “unintended” side effects.
Some doses and types of statins are linked with effects that include liver problems and kidney failure.
BBC News reports:
“Researchers looked at data from more [...]
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ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS NOT SO SWEET AFTER ALL
Sugar substitutes were first developed in the 1950’s when a clinic director worked to develop a sugar-free diet for patients suffering from diabetes and other chronic conditions. The industry took off, and today diet sodas and sugar substitutes make up a huge part of the market. The idea that [...]
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We had a great raw foods class last night for Daniel Island’s Get Fit Program! Thank you to the participants, look forward to seeing you on July 19th for more tasty ideas! Here are those recipes as promised!
KALE SHAKE
1 organic green apple
2 bananas
1/2 can organic coconut milk (full fat)
1/2 tsp ground flaxseeds
1 handful organic kale [...]
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10 Foods You Should Always Have in Your Pantry (that you probably don’t)
These are not in any particular order, and obviously, this list is far from complete. However, if you have these pantry staples at all times, you’ll have the basis for a tasty, healthy meal once you add fresh vegetables [...]
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At recipe night we made and sampled some healthy dishes. Here are some of them below. The rest of the recipes (raw brownie calls, meatloaf, mashed no-tatoes, etc) can be found in the Nutrition Plans and Recipes by God books in our office! Happy cooking!
Kale Salad
1 bunch of Organic Kale (peel off the stem, chop, [...]
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There was a time when imported foods and processed and prepared foods were considered a luxury only within the reach of the rich. But if you’ve so much as walked into a grocery store recently, you know things have changed. Healthy food is not the least expensive food from a financial standpoint.
I will often remind [...]
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Chiropractic Cuts Blood Pressure
Study Finds Special ‘Atlas Adjustment’ Lowers Blood Pressure
By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD
March 16, 2007 — A special chiropractic adjustment can significantly lower high blood pressure, a placebo-controlled study suggests.
“This procedure has the effect of not one, but two blood-pressure medications given in combination,” study leader George Bakris, [...]
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OLYMPIC LEVEL LIVING!!!
I was recently appointed to the Wellness Advisory Committee for USA Wrestling, Judo and Weightlifting. This will allow me to work with our American hopefuls on making sure they are able to perform at an “Olympic Level” each and every time they go to compete. What a privilege to be training beside the [...]
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Normal human problems are turned into medical conditions, spiking healthcare costs
by Sherry Baker, Health Sciences Editor
NATURAL NEWS
(NaturalNews) Mainstream medicine has a huge new growth industry underway — the “medicalization” of the human condition. That’s the conclusion of a study headed by Brandeis University sociologist Peter Conrad that was just published in the journal Social [...]
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