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On this sobering day when people around the world unite to March Against Monsanto and the day after the US Senate voted by a wide margin (71-27) to reject an amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to allow states to require labels on food or beverages made with genetically modified ingredients, a courageous farmer gives us [...]
The core market for weight-loss diets in the United States is created by publishing conglomerates and charismatic medical doctors who are willing to tell prospective readers what they want to hear — that you can lose weight quickly and effortlessly by buying and following their books. All of these “quickie” diets share the same common [...]
The peanut, which is actually a legume and not a nut at all, was originally cultivated in what is today Brazil or Peru at least as far back as 3,500 years ago. When the Spanish first began exploring the New World in the 1500′s, they were intrigued by peanut cultivation by natives in Central America [...]
Coconut sugar, also referred to as palm sugar, coconut palm sugar, or coconut crystals/nectar, is the one of the primary sweeteners I use in my home for baking. The reason is because it is not only delicious, but it is also healthy and sustainable for our planet. Made from the sap of cut flower buds [...]
Having been in the fitness industry personally and professionally for over 2 decades I have seen many fitness programs and trends come and go. One truth stands clear—there is no “one size fits all” training or nutritional program, with a few notable exceptions. Every effective fitness program no matter the goal or sport must have [...]
You’ve seen the commercials. All American Dad, pump sprayer in hand, attacking those pesky weeds growing in the cracks of his family’s driveway with a vengeance. He chooses Roundup, of course. Why? Because Roundup kills weeds to the root so they won’t come back making you the laughingstock of your suburban neighborhood. Roundup, Roundup everywhere. [...]
If you’ve ever done any kind of fasting or detoxification protocol for any length of time, you may very well be all too familiar with the various kinds of unpleasant symptoms that can manifest during such cleanses. Even just going cold turkey for a few days from things like drinking coffee, diet soda, eating refined sugar, or smoking [...]
Thanks to everyone who participated in the giveaway for a Family 4-Pack of Primal Pit Paste! 3 winners have been chosen who will each receive one of each of the following natural deodorants with choice of scent: Primal Stick (spice, lavender, unscented, thyme and lemongrass) Pit Paste Regular (lavender, unscented, patchouli (woodsy), or thyme and [...]
Gynecomastia, better known as man boobs or “moobs”, is a benign enlargement of breast tissue in males thought to be caused by an imbalance of the hormones estrogen and testosterone. One or both breasts may be affected. According to some estimates, about half of adolescent boys experience at least some breast development during puberty. Living in Florida where [...]
Meat and eggs labeled as “free range” or “cage free” have become increasingly popular in recent years as consumers try to source higher quality food for their families as well as to vote with their food dollars for humane and “green” conditions for the chickens themselves. When most people think of free range, cage free [...]
Choosing the right dentist for yourself and your family is no less important than choosing the right doctor. In fact, it might actually be more important from a prevention standpoint because what is happening with and to a person’s teeth and gums is a clear harbinger for the health of the rest of the body [...]
One of the biggest nutritional mistakes I’ve ever made occurred shortly after I weaned my first child when he was 2 years old. Knowing that commercial milk was not a healthy choice due to the antibiotics, steroids, unnatural feed and confinement the cows are subjected to, I chose organic soy milk for my son to [...]
So you got the memo that soy is very bad for the hormonal system. If you think that is the extent of the damage the lowly soybean can wreak on your health, you may be surprised to learn that soybeans are also notoriously hard to digest with GMO soybeans – widely used in processed foods – [...]
Our derriere is defined by 3 muscles known as the gluteus maximus, gluteus medius and gluteus minimus. The right combination of strength training, metabolic conditioning and nutrition will build the booty of your dreams. Most women are always on the quest for a better bottom and with bathing suit season approaching there’s not [...]
Lentil soup is a regular feature on the menu in our home. The reason? All 3 kids like it, along with Mom and Dad! With many of my other soups, only one or two of the children like it but the third does not. It’s so nice to have a go to soup made with [...]
I’ve known Jimmy and Amy Cazin, owners of Primal Pit Paste, for a long time – ever since I met Jimmy through his sister Laura who used to coach one of my children’s soccer teams. I got to know Jimmy and Amy better when Jimmy was the Pastor of a Church in my local community that [...]
New research from the University of Adelaide in Australia and published in the Journal of the Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology has uncovered scientific evidence regarding what many mothers already knew with simple common sense. Eating junk food during pregnancy and lactation can lead to children who are already addicted to junk food by the time [...]
The right of parents to determine the course of medical treatment for their children has suffered yet another slap in the face. On April 29, 2013, a hearing took place regarding the Gestapo style abduction by Child Protective Services of 5 month old baby Sammy after his parents, Alex and Anna Nikolayev, took him out [...]
Omega-3 fats are currently the darling of conventional and alternative medicine alike. Fish oil capsules loaded with these heart healthy “good fats” are flying off the shelves of healthfood stores and are prominently featured on supplement displays in many doctors’ offices. You can even buy fish oil at Wal-Mart! (...)Read the rest of When Omega-3 [...]
A Sacramento couple is without their 5 month old baby after Child Protective Services sent in the police to forcibly remove the child from their care. A hearing is scheduled for Monday, April 29, 2013 on the incident which was triggered when Anna Nikolayev and her husband Alex took baby Sammy out of Sutter Memorial Hospital [...]
Above all, a no-fail weight loss diet must contain less energy than your body expends throughout the day, otherwise you aren’t going to lose fat or may even gain more. Any time you encounter a weight loss plateau or rebound, this is an indication that you are consuming more calories than your body is expending on energy and [...]
Doug Bartlett, a veteran teacher with an upstanding record of 17 years, has filed a lawsuit against the school district of Chicago for suspending him without pay after giving a lesson on gardening tools to his second grade students. The incident took place on August 8, 2011 at Washington Irving Elementary School. Mr. Bartlett recently [...]
When most people think of drones, they think of the picture to the right. An unmanned, aerial vehicle used in wartime situations on foreign soil. While this perception is certainly true, the FAA Reauthorization Act signed into law in 2012 took the concept of drones to an entirely new – and frightening – level. Predator drones [...]
On the Dr. Oz show last week, Dr. Oz shared two of his “best kept health secrets”. While I did not watch the show myself (I’ve only watched 2 of his shows ever), several readers emailed me about it and I confirmed the topic selection by checking his blog post of the same day. Apparently, Dr. [...]
Provided the opportunity, most adults will overeat, however unconsciously, to store energy as fat. Also, given a chance, most adults will stay put to preserve energy (stored as fat) rather than move around to waste it. In practical terms, these two intrinsic biological traits — storage and preservation of energy — mean that weight loss [...]
Swimmers ear, or otitis externa, is an infection in the canal between the outer ear and the eardrum. It is very painful and is usually triggered by water that enters the ear canal during bathing or swimming. It can also be caused by cleaning the ear too vigorously or by an infected hair follicle. Some [...]
Those of us who have exclusively nursed a child know the heavy responsibility that comes with knowing that you are another human being’s sole source of nourishing sustenance. I remember so well nursing my first son and worrying about what would happen if I was in a car wreck or got ill and was unable [...]
Do you enjoy reading e-books as much as I do? If so, you are going to love the Village Green Network Spring E-Book bundle! 30 books for only $39 which is less than $1.50 per book. This is a $479 value at over 90% off! I am thrilled to have my brand new e-book, Get [...]
Amid the worrisome and growing problem of bacterial contamination of food, there is some good news. Dairy products are some of the safest foods for consumers to eat. The chart to the right from a report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest shows just how low the risk of foodborne illness in milk [...]
Make no bones about it—to be your healthiest, fittest and looking and feeling your best you need to exercise—in some form or fashion. What you are training for will to a large degree determine your exercise program. Every program no matter the goal or sport must have an element of strength training and metabolic conditioning. [...]
Your body casually switches from one metabolic state to another between meals, during intentional or accidental starvation, and under extreme workload or stress. This metabolic duality is very much like a hybrid engine – the moment it runs out of electricity (foods in humans), it switches over to gasoline (fat in humans), and keeps running, running, [...]
by Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, The Naughty Nutritionist Eden Foods bills itself as the “oldest natural and organic food company in America” and is best known for its EdenSoy line of organic soy milk. Most of Eden’s products are organic and nearly all are vegan. It’s a very familiar brand in health food stores and marketing studies have shown [...]
Last week, I had the opportunity to chat about my recently released eBook Get Your Fats Straight with Wardee Harmon of the popular Know Your Food podcast. I thoroughly enjoyed Wardee’s easygoing, friendly interviewing style as we talked about my junk food eating childhood and background/initiation as a Real Food activist. (...)Read the rest of Interview with Know [...]
By Konstantin Monastyrsky, the author of Fiber Menace I’ve yet to meet an overweight person who wouldn’t tell me upfront: “I am overweight because I have an underactive thyroid,” or “I am overweight because I have hypothyroidism,” or “I am overweight because I have a bad metabolism.” To hear these claims is quite amusing because [...]
By Konstantin Monastyrsky, the author of Fiber Menace I’ve yet to meet an overweight person who wouldn’t tell me upfront: “I am overweight because I have an underactive thyroid,” or “I am overweight because I have hypothyroidism,” or “I am overweight because I have a bad metabolism.” To hear these claims is quite amusing [...]
Put down that Tylenol. Hang up the phone to the pediatrician’s office. Don’t touch the analgesics. You can do this on your own! Fever is not a bad word. It is your friend. (...)Read the rest of For Clued-in Moms, Fever is a Friend (978 words) © Joette Calabrese, HMC, CCH, RSHom(Na) for The Healthy [...]
Twenty-seven state governors from across the United States have teamed with Hallmark, the $4 billion greeting card company, to exert pressure on new parents to vaccinate their children. Hallmark’s “For America’s Babies” program, now in its 18th year, prints personalized greeting cards for all new parents complete with detachable growth chart and immunization schedule. Havin
By Fitness Editor, Paula Jager CSCS, Owner of CrossFit Jaguar A topic of hot debate in the health & fitness world has long been—what matters most when it comes to fat loss: exercise or nutrition? They are both important but I would say without a doubt it is 80% nutrition. You are what you eat—literally. [...]
All I can say is “WOW!” The recently concluded giveaway for the new Blue Ice Infused Cod Liver Oil was absolutely crazy! It’s easy to see that Green Pasture Products has hit the nail on the head with this new line of traditional sacred oils blended together for easy swallowing and improved absorption. (...)Read the [...]
Don’t you just love the way a truly fresh egg looks in a bowl after you crack it? The yolk is so perfectly rounded and the whites whip up into the fluffiest meringue! Fresh eggs go with the territory when you purchase from a local farm. Good quality, local eggs sell quickly enough that there [...]
By Konstantin Monastyrsky, the author of Fiber Menace One gram of fat is indisputably one gram of fat, but analyzing nine calories in the same gram — not so simple. Ditto for proteins and carbohydrates. This ambiguity in the relative role of calories in weight loss (or weight gain) explains why even siblings consuming similar diets may [...]
A new study published online March 18, 2013 in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, a sister publication of the British Medical Journal, reports that lowfat milk is associated with higher weight in preschoolers. You read that right. Kids drinking lowfat milk tend to be heavier than those drinking whole milk. Skim milk drinking kids were found to be the [...]
I just love coleslaw, or slawwww as we say in the South. Basic slaw, German slaw, Asian slaw – you name it. It’s all yummy to me. The primary ingredient of coleslaw is shredded raw cabbage. Unfortunately, as any woman who has breastfed knows, for those first few months, cabbage is a no-no for Mom [...]
By Emily Bartlett of Holistic Squid Back in my days of processed, packaged foods, dinner was frequently an afterthought. My freezer was well-stocked with frozen pizzas, and I could usually dig out a box of mac-n-cheese or some canned chili from the pantry – heat it up and put it on the table. Done. Then, [...]
I’ve been an athlete all my life, enjoying a wide variety of sports on land, water, and snow. When I got pregnant, however, I suddenly and unexpectedly became very much adverse to anything that was at all strenuous. I know a lot of women who run, lift weights and otherwise do not change their exercise [...]
By Konstantin Monastyrsky, the author of Fiber Menace Successful weight loss is a challenging journey, no doubt about it. In fact, it may be just as challenging as walking solo from New York to Los Angeles, and for many it may take even longer. Would you take either journey without having a clue how long is it [...]
Dave Wetzel and his wife Barb are the proud owners of Green Pasture Products, founded in 2000 and known as one of the most forward thinking yet traditionally minded supplement companies in the world. My family and I have used Green Pasture Products’ cod liver oil and cultured butter oil for over ten years. My cupboard [...]
A one month old baby whose parents warned doctors that she was ill and had a cough, has died within hours of receiving routine vaccination for Hepatitis B, DPT and oral polio after doctors decided to proceed with immunization anyway. The doctors told her parents that the cough was caused by a change in the [...]
By Fitness Editor Paula Jager, CSCS Owner of Crossfit Jaguar Winters in Florida may be milder than the rest of the country but that’s not to say our culinary habits don’t go through seasonal changes. On cold days—especially busy weekends at home nothing takes the chill off better than smelling something delightful that’s been simmering in the [...]
Two of the most important decisions my husband and I ever made concerning the health of our children were based on conversations I originally had with friends of mine neither of whom are doctors or nutritionists. In fact, they don’t hold a health related degree at all. The first conversation occurred with my friend Jill [...]
