You’re trying so hard to be healthy, right? But if avoiding gluten is one of your objectives, you need to know that it’s possible, and even likely, for vitamins and supplements to contain trace and higher amounts of gluten. You can protect yourself by learning how to evaluate the ingredients in these products! (And remember to add E3 …
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Teaching Your Children the Do’s and Don’ts About Nutrition There are several factors at play when you find yourself frustrated about how to make your child interested in nutrition. Candy and sugar-laden drinks can be pretty appealing to those tiny little taste buds. Fast food restaurants have some cool, trendy trinkets that your child doesn’t need, …
One important thing to understand is the body’s natural defenses and how you can protect yourself. People are always asking me “Where do I start?” This may sound silly – but the place you want to start is with hydration. If you are not getting enough water then every other system in your body is …
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If you found this website, you may already have a firm grasp on the basic tenets of functional medicine; however, many people are still unfamiliar with this term. What is it? Your body has an innate intelligence eloquently designed to stave off diseases, to purge toxins from your system, to maintain homeostasis, and to keep …
I remember the shock I felt when I discovered my body had betrayed me. Why me? How did this happen? I exercised. I ate “healthy” foods. I wasn’t doing anything outrageous that would put me at high risk – or so I thought at the time. I’ve learned so much since that day. You could …
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Remember that old fairy tale about Hansel and Gretel? The parents were so poor they decided to send their children off into the woods to have them fend for themselves. The children started picking strawberries. But as they wandered, they were lured to the witch’s gingerbread house made of sweets. It nearly killed them. They …
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