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Top 5 Foods to Support Your Immune System
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The holidays are fast approaching, and with it comes flu season. No one wants to ruin their holiday by catching a cold or the flu! One of the best ways to keep these infections away is to use food to strengthen your immune system. These five foods can be used to prevent viruses from invading…
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Juice: Healthy or Harmful?
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Juice is a staple in many diets, and juicing only continues to gain in popularity. Common health claims for drinking juice include cleansing/detoxifying, weight loss, boosting energy, and building a stronger immune system, among many others. While these claims may sound great, it is important to be informed about the truth of how juice impacts…
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Nutrition Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy
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Eating right during pregnancy can be overwhelming and confusing, not to mention stressful, as new moms-to-be strive to have a healthy pregnancy and baby. And while the media and well meaning friends, and perhaps future dads, encourage soon-to-be-moms to eat for two, the ensuing 9 months is not a time to eat haphazardly. The standard…
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Halloween Recipe Roundup
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Halloween is almost here! That means lots of refined sugar, artificial flavors, and all sorts of other not-so-good-for-you ingredients will be everywhere you turn. But don’t despair! Enjoying an occasional treat can be part of a healthy eating plan, especially when it’s made from wholesome ingredients. In this Halloween Recipe Roundup we’re going to be…
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My Top 5 Supplements for Breast Health
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Honestly, supplements are not the first place I focus when I am working with a woman who wants to decrease her risk of getting breast cancer. I work with women to improve their lifestyle (which you can read about here) and lower their exposure to toxins, estrogens, and body fat. But, there are a few…
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Local Sustainable Food: No longer an alternative choice, but a necessity
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I have been a long-time participant and passionate follower of the environmental movement. When I was considering my major in college, I was torn between nutrition and environmental science. I ultimately chose to study nutrition because I knew what we choose to eat has such an impact (positive or negative) on the environment. This choice…
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Why is my teenager so tired?: A personal story
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My 14 year old daughter Isabel brings up the rear behind two older brothers, who are 19 and 22. This isn’t my first adolescent rodeo. The boys took my wife and I to the brink of sanity but we survived and recovered just in time for another adolescent siege. When getting Isabel out of bed…
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A PANDAS Story: What every parent needs to know
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Harper was a bright, engaging, humorous 10 year old. She was perfectly healthy and her mom had no concerns. I happened to see them outside the office and she was every bit of the energizer bunny I expected she would be. Several months later, she was the in the office with a sore throat. We…
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Baked Apples with Cashew Nut Cream
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This delicious dessert serves 8. Ingredients: 2 cups filtered water or unsweetened apple juice 4 apples, sliced in half, cored Nut Cream ingredients: 1 cup cashews 1 teaspoon vanilla Maple syrup to taste Water for thickening Directions: Preheat oven to 350°F. Add the water or apple juice to a large baking dish and…
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Clara’s Case Study: Overcoming Infertility
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Dealing with infertility is an overwhelming, confusing, and heartbreaking issue for an estimated 10% of women in the US who are between the ages of 15 and 44. It’s defined as the inability to get pregnant after one year of trying for women less than 35 years of age, or six months for those who…