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Your Vitamin D Level May Be Low Because of Magnesium Deficiency

If your magnesium level is already low the D3 will use up more of your magnesium and cause all kinds of problems.

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Glutathione, Your Body’s Master Antioxidant

One of the best ways to continually protect our health against these insults is to support your glutathione levels.

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Why Magnesium is So Vital for Our Health

Most of us are deficient in magnesium.  We are out of balance with too much calcium causing inflammation in the body and MORE! Here are my notes from a seminar with Dr. Carolyn Dean.

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Tips to Improve Your Sleep

Light Exposure is also a factor.  What can you do?  See more

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Garlic Proven 100 Times More Effective Than Antibiotics, Working In A Fraction of The Time

Garlic is probably nature’s most potent food. It is one of the reasons people who eat the Mediterranean diet live such long healthy lives. Garlic is also a powerful performer in the research lab.

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Scientists Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies

Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language, words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained. Of course the frequency has to be correct.

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Why Low Fat Diet and Statins 
may Cause Alzheimer's

In addition to refusing to take statin therapy, another way in which an individual can improve their odds against Alzheimer's is to consume plenty of dietary fats.

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10 Signs of Vitamin D Deficiency

These various health conditions associated with vitamin D deficiency need not be something to fear. A proactive approach to prevention can assist in the avoidance of the many chronic diseases associated with vitamin D deficiency.

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9 Ways to Protect Yourself From Superbug Bacteria

The CDC is flooding airwaves and media outlets with this message: superbugs are once again becoming a threat, this time in hospital environments.  So what can you possibly do to keep from contracting one of these horrible bacteria?

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Causes of Inflammation

The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.

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Protect Your Eye Health

Antioxidants Play a Key Role in Eye Health

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GMO Foods To Avoid

Learn about crops most likely to be genetically modified

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Amy's Butternut Pumpkin Custard Recipe

A delicious dessert that is sugar free!

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

More and more dieters worldwide are experiencing this miserable side effect of weight reduction on the brain.

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Is salt good or bad for us?

We all know already that our body is 75% water. Well, maybe not all of us know is that this water contained in all of our tissues, cells, blood, etc. is a salty water solution, very similar to the seawater...

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What is Natural Detoxification?

If the flora in the colon is kept in healthy balance, many health issues, like allergies, autoimmune, cancer can be avoided because the body is better able to digest food, absorb nutrients and detoxify.  I cannot stress how important this is!  If I had to pick one thing to improve my health, it would be this.

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B Vitamins for Your Heart

B Vitamins are your best protection against heart attack and stroke and more powerful than any drug.

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Before You Start Your Garden...Detox the Soil!

If you or the previous owners of your home have used synthetic fertilizers, toxic pesticides or other contaminates, your soil is nasty or at least unhealthy and needs to be cleaned up.

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Is your gallbladder primed for fat?

Two things that the gallbladder doesn't like are bad fats and no fats.

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Plants Bite Back!

Fruits and vegetables add interest, color and taste to our diet, but don’t overconsume. Instead, vary your choice, prepare them properly and consume them in the context of a diet rich in the protective factors that come from meat, eggs, seafood, raw dairy products and the fats from grass-fed animals. When it comes to plant foods our motto should be: Don’t deny, diversify!

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Could Members of the Nightshade Family Be Causing Your Pain?

If you suffer from inflammation, joint pain and cracking, avoiding nightshades will lessen your pain, whether or not the nightshades are the true source of the pain.

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The Mysterious Vitamin K2

Vitamin K2 is not well known but may greatly impact your life!

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Flak about Flax....

Flax oil is not a good replacement for fish oil.

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What does High Cholesterol Mean?

Cholesterol is so essential for health, that the body has mechanisms to keep it at a certain level.  When we eat more cholesterol, the body produces less, when we eat less cholesterol, the body produces more.

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What Causes Tooth Decay?

It is important for us to understand how to think correctly about tooth cavities.

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How to Get Enough Vitamin D?

Does it make sense that if you weigh 300 pounds, you need more vitamin D than a 3 pound baby?

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Why Soaked and Dried Nuts are a Healthier Choice

Raw nuts also contain enzyme inhibitors which help to protect the seed and keep it from germinating too early and dying off. But these enzyme inhibitors, when introduced into the body, actually neutralize the enzymes in our own digestive tract exhausting the pancreas.

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Raw Milk Symposium

Want the right to get raw milk?  Join others in the cause at the 2nd Annual International Raw Milk Symposium.........

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Are Degenerative Diseases Genetic or Acquired?

When you begin to experience body-fat gain and health problems, these problems seem as if they occurred overnight, but the truth is that when you put damaging substances in your body, the damage occurs out of sight.

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Eat Protein and Fat for Your Bones

No one tells teenage girls or young women that they are supposed to weigh more every decade as their hollow bones fill up. Think of bones as tubes that are made of and filled with protein and hardened by calcium.  As your bones get denser, your weight must go up.

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How Stress Affects You & What You Can Do About It

People with weak adrenal glands frequently crave coffee and sugar, as well as salt.

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Isoflavones ~ Learn the Facts

There is growing suspicion that soy--despite its undisputed benefits--may pose some health hazards. . . . Not one of the 18 scientists interviewed for this column was willing to say that taking isoflavones was risk free."

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The Lungs Cannot Function Without Saturated Fats!

The lungs secrete a fluid called a surfactant that enables them to function properly.  This flulid is made of 2 fatty acids, both of which are saturated. 

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Fish for a Healthy Pregnancy

Many nutrients found in fish have been used by a multitude of indigenous cultures for healthy reproduction....

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Health Risks Associated with Artificial Sweetners

The dangers of aspartame are now becoming widely known, but the risks of using Splenda are not as well documented - yet. Essentially, the sucralose in Splenda does not readily penetrate the blood brain barrier as aspartame does, hence creating neurotoxic havoc at the brain center.

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Know Your Fats

The following nutrient-rich traditional fats have nourished healthy population groups for thousands of years..

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Fertility & Fats

Confused About Fats? The following nutrient-rich traditional fats have nourished healthy population groups for thousands of years......

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Are Fruit Juices Healthy?

 One glass of orange juice (8oz) contains 20 to 30 grams of sugar.

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Foods to Eat for Building Healthy Blood

Anemia can be handled with food.  When you think of iron, think of red foods like meat.

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An Inside View of Allergies

Between 95-100%of mothers of children with autism, hyperactivity, asthma, eczema and other problems, have conditions that are related to abnormal gut flora.  I hardly ever see healthy mothers.

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How to Deal With Carbohydrate Cravings

The real secret lies in how you choose (yes, choose) to metabolically adapt your body—whether you choose to depend upon sugar or upon fat as your primary source of fuel  –The more you can come to depend upon fat as your primary source of fuel the longer you will live and the healthier you will be…by FAR.

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You Are What You Eat!

You’re not just fat because your mother and father were fat. –Nor are you destined to have a heart attack just because half the people in your family have had one, or by the same token will you get diabetes, or cancer.

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Combine the "Right" Foods for Weight Loss

A diet too high in protein without adequate fat rapidly depletes vitamin A stores, leading to serious consequences—heart arrhythmias, kidney problems, autoimmune disease and thyroid disorders.

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The Importance of a the Digestive System When Preparing for Pregnancy

GAPS (Gut & Psychology Syndrome), created by Dr Natasha Campbell–McBride, MD, is a condition which establishes a connection between the functions of the digestive system and the brain.  The GAPS diet is a program designed to heal the damaged digestive system of a GAPS patient.

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Growing Nutrient Rich Vegetables/Minimize Your Chemical Exposure

Gardening organically is important for your health.  Studies have shown that incidences of breast cancer rise in those who use pesticides.

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Hazardous Waste on Your Plate

Food crops may be grown in fields treated with Class A sludge without testing the products for levels of pathogens, heavy metals or pharmaceuticals in spite of the fact that plants uptake nutrients and toxins from the soil.  Meat and dairy animals may graze in fields treated with sludge despite the fact that  heavy metals, hormone mimickers and chemicals collect in muscle and fat tissue.

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Myths and Truths About Soy

Soy is not necessarily good for the body...Learn the truth.

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Exposing the Myths Around Conventional Nutrition

Weston Price Foundation exposes the myths surrounding coventional nutrition ideas.  Saturated fat is really necessary for good health. Here is why...

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Soy Infant Formula: Birth Control Pills for Babies

Babies fed soy-based formula have 13,000 to 22,000 times more estrogen compounds in their blood than babies fed milk-based formula. Infants exclusively fed soy formula receive the estrogenic equivalent (based on body weight) of at least five birth control pills per day.

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INFORMATION UPDATE ON COD LIVER OIL

Weston A. Price Foundation (Sally Fallon) sent out this update on the benefits of cod liver oil.  Recently, a fear of the vitamin A content has shown the need for more understanding on the difference between synthetic vitamins and natural ...in cod liver oil those would be vitamins A & D.

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EFA's & Saturated Fat Go Together

Overdosing on flax oil or fish oil creates an imbalance in which omega-3s predominate, leading to lowered immunity.

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Genetically Engineered Foods Pose Higher Risk for Children.

Children's bodies develop at a fast pace and are more likely to be influenced and show the effects of genetically modified (GM) foods.

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Cosmetics and Your Health

Have you ever counted how many cosmetics or personal care products you use in a day? Chances are it's nearly 10.

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Why You Should Eat Grass Fed (Finished) Meats & Avoid GMO Foods

Grass fed meat gives you a wealth of health benefits. First of all, you avoid the synthetic hormones, antibiotics, residues and questionable additives found in conventionally raised animals.  But just as important....

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Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven

From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, we will conclude this article with the following:

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Cooked vs Raw, How about a Little of Both!

"The length of life is inversely proportional to the rate of exhaustion of the enzyme potential of an organism." Quote by Dr. Edward Howell, a noted pioneer in the field of enzyme research. A diet composed exclusively of cooked food puts a severe strain on the pancreas, drawing down its reserves, so to speak.

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Ghee vs. Butter

How to Get the Health Benefits of Butter Without Dairy Allergens

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Diet Can Affect Body Height

It is interesting to note the differences in body height that seems to reflect the way people are forced to eat.

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Why is Pork Prohibited by Some Religions

Anthropologists have wondered why certain foods came to be prohibited by some religions.

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Surprising Health Benefits of Digestive Enzymes

Taking enzymes with food helps digest that food and should be taken at meals but when digestive enzymes are taken on an empty stomach (two hours after eating) the benefits are enormous!

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A Belly Laugh a Day Will Keep the Doctor Away!

Laughter reduces the level of stress hormones, such as cortisol, epinephrine, adrenaline, dopamine, and growth hormone. At the same time it increases the level of healthy hormones like endorphins and neurotransmitters.

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Seven Reasons to Eat More Saturated Fat

Though you may not have heard of it on the front pages of your local newspaper, online news source, or local television or radio news program, saturated fat plays a couple of key roles in cardiovascular health.

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Side Effects of Aspirin

Like sugar and alcohol, aspirin can be a direct cause of food allergies.

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Does Butter Cause Disease?

On the contrary, butter protects us against many diseases.

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