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Are you looking for a way to use your bullet journal to track your Functional Medicine food plan? You’ve come to the right place. Why Not Just Track Calories? Calorie counting may have its place, but in Functional Medicine, food QUALITY is paramount in making good food choices. When we focus heavily on calories, we …
We’re just beginning to learn about some of the beneficial plant nutrients (also called phytonutrients) that God added to the pomegranate. There are dozens of sciency names for the various polyphenols, flavonoids, and other plant chemical goodies to which we can point. But the bottom line is that we’re learning that pomegranates are literally some …
What is the Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD)? The Fasting Mimicking Diet, from Valter Longo’s book titled The Longevity Diet, has created quite a buzz in nutrition science circles lately. Various forms of fasting have been shown to improve and even reverse many diverse health issues from autoimmune disease to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. So, when …
“Increasingly, studies are reaching an elementary conclusion: a consistent routine of walking is just as good as running for preventing heart disease, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and cancer. As a bonus, those who walk vigorously and consistently enjoy improved cognitive function and mood, and measurably lower mortality rates.” Run for Your Life by Dr. Mark …
Would you like to use less ibuprofen for aches and pains? Do you want to sleep better without taking melatonin or other sleep aids? Did you know that tart cherry juice can improve sleep, reduce pain, and has many other surprising health benefits? After seeing the sleep benefits of tart cherry juice firsthand, I was …
The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral Why Eat Local Food? Why would anyone choose to buy meat and produce from local farmers instead of from the grocery store? Why do some people spend time in …
If you came to my house, it would be illegal for me to offer you a glass of milk with your cake. Seriously, the food police would forbid it. We drink raw milk here. The cold jar of cream-on-top whole milk in my refrigerator is unpasteurized and unprocessed, just like it came from the cow. …
When you’re washing, peeling, and chopping vegetables, do you feel like a hero? When you drive past that fast food restaurant, despite the protests from the backseat, toward home and leftovers in the fridge, do you feel like Wonder Woman? Neither do I. But maybe we should. You’ve heard it said that the hand that …
I sit in a donut shop for 90 minutes a week. Every week. But, I don’t eat the donuts. “Good luck!” my daughter quipped as she ended our call last night. I wasn’t sure what she meant, so I asked her why I needed good luck. “Good luck not eating a donut!” she explained with …
What are Artificial Growth Hormones and Why Are They in My Milk? rBGH, (recombinant bovine growth hormone) is a genetically modified veterinary drug, administered by injection, and is used to dramatically increase milk production in cows. Patented by Monsanto, rBGH was later renamed rBST (recombinant bovine soma-totropin) in an effort to drop the H and …