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Managing Seasonal Allergies
Managing Seasonal AllergiesnGive Your Body A Break!nFruit has a cleansing, clearing nature. It makes us feel light and fresh when we eat it. Environmental allergies often make us feel irritable, edgy and inflamed, and are typically a result of dehydration (especially as the heat rolls in) and excess body acidity. Acidity is created from low alkalizing mineral levels in the body (such as magnesium). Alkalizing minerals keep our bones strong, muscles and mind relaxed, and reduc
October 17, 2008
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Why Eat Healthily?
Why Eat Healthily?nBecause we eat three times a day! Food has a strong influence on the state of our health, and is a medicine that we will never discontinue. As plants acquire their nutrients from the ground and sun, we acquire our nutrients from the plants. Therefore our health is very closely connected to the health of the plants we eat (or the animals that ate them!) If you are interested in making your diet healthier, here is a quick pointer on how to start:nChoose High
October 17, 2008
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Preventing Heart Disease and Reversing Aging Naturally
Preventing Heart Disease and Reversing Aging NaturallynnThe rusting of your car is not much different than the aging of our skin.nWhen the metal on cars is exposed to the elements it is vulnerable to damage by other minerals and chemicals, but especially air. Air has oxygen in it which reacts to metals causing rust. This process is called oxidization. The metal will continue to rust, as long as there is more air and metal exposed. Some substances can produce oxidization as we
October 17, 2008
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Connecting Diabetes, Irritability, ADD, Fatigue and Hypoglycemia
Connecting Diabetes, Irritability, ADD, Fatigue and HypoglycemianThe Sugar BluesnnRecently, CBS stated that one in three U.S. children born in 2000 will become diabetic. Also, ADD and behaviour disorders are on the rise, drastically increasing with each new generation affecting children of all ages. Many adults complain of fatigue, the “2 o’clock brick wall,” general irritability or depression. What we don’t realize, is that all of these are greatly af
October 17, 2008
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The Bounty of Whole Wheat
The Bounty of Whole WheatnWhole wheat is a remarkable food known in the traditional medicines of China and India to strengthen the body and nurture the mind and heart. Whole wheat has the ability to calm and focus the mind, strengthen the body and muscles, replenish our adrenals, soothe palpitations, insomnia and irritability, and is also an astringent.nnWhole wheat is a term many people are familiar with - but may not understand what it means. The part of the cereal grass pl
October 17, 2008
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Spring Cleaning - Whole Food Body Detox
Spring CleaningnWhole Food Body DetoxnnSpring is a time of renewal - for the earth, our homes, and our health. The sun is now present for more than 12 hours a day, signalling the reawakening of the crops and animals. With Spring, the sun can now nourish and warm us and we can begin to release our storage as the days become brighter and warmer.nnOn a cellular level, our body has been hanging on to toxins all winter long, and now it is time to release them. It may come about in
October 17, 2008
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Eating Healthily Doesn't Have to Be Expensive
Eating Healthily Doesn’t Have to Be ExpensivennMost people I run into who ask me about healthy eating often bring up the fact that it costs so much to eat that way. They look at me as though choosing to eat healthily was a matter of choosing health over wallet. Being a wallet driven country, it’s easy for most to make the choice to save money then to shell out for the expensive health foods. But here’s the catch:nnWhat makes cheap food cheap, is the quality
October 17, 2008