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9 Botanical Vegetable Families…Eat them All!

There are 9 botanical families of vegetables. Are you including each family in your diet to obtain optimal nutrition? 1. Cabbage / Mustard 2. Lettuce / Sunflower 3. Carrot / Parsley 4. Beet / Spinach 5. Cucumber / Squash 6.…

Do Not Fear Salt!

Salt (sodium chloride) is essential for good health: • Maintains Acid-Base Level • Nerve Conduction • Nutrient Transport Into Cells • Maintaining Blood Pressure • Muscular Activity • Digesting Proteins • Killing Parasites and Pathogens

Vitamin D Supplementation for Fall & Winter Months

I am in favor of obtaining nutrients through real food sources as much as possible. Yet, Vitamin D is tricky. Our bodies only produce Vitamin D through 30 minutes of direct sun exposure in the warm months of the year.…

The Incredible, Edible Egg

Is there a better food to highlight than the egg? Probably not. As Sally Fallon, author of Nourishing Traditions Nourishing Traditions, puts it:

Healthy Fats & Oils

My kitchen is stocked with olive oil, coconut oil, and butter from pastured, grass fed cows. If you asked most Americans if they thought my fat and oil selections were healthy, they would probably only agree with the olive oil.

“It’s my genes….”

Genetics play an important role in creating who we are, yet there is more to the story than most realize. The field of epigenetics (‘above the gene’ or ‘on the gene’) is revealing that genes can be essentially switched on…

Unnecessary Antibiotic Use Creating Problems

In recent years we have seen an increase in bacteria that are resistant to our most common antibiotics. The concern is that people are pressuring doctors to prescribe drugs for colds, flu, and other viruses that do not respond or…