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Month: July 2016

10 of my Favorite Food “Rules” from Michael Pollan

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| Categories: Food and Nutrition, Nutrition

I recently picked up Michael Pollan’s Food Rules to re-read. This is one of the very first books I read on my journey to discover true health, before I ever began studying nutrition. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a small book of food wisdom about what real food is and how we should eat it. It aims to keep eating simple, and teaches that food is as much about pleasure and community as it is about nutrition and health. It’s a book less about rules, really, than rules of thumb. I enjoy reading this book as a…

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Strawberry Basil-Lime Smoothie

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| Categories: Breakfast, Food and Nutrition, Recipes, Smoothies

Ooh, does this just taste like summer!

Here’s a heads up though. There is a reason I took a photo BEFORE I blended it all up and it’s not just to be all artsy. This smoothie contains 2 different color foods, green and red. And if you remember your days in elementary art studying the color wheel, green + red = brown. Not pretty for a smoothie, but unfortunately how many of them turn out! So let the “before” picture inspire you to make this one, because the “before” picture is a whole lot more appetizing and actually resembles what…

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Living Naturally with Essential Oils

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| Categories: Essential OIls, Natural Living

This past week, I’m just going about my day and one of my sons says,

“Mom, can you do that thing where you put the coconut oil in my ear?” (This is how I treat ear infections without antibiotics) I said, “Why, does it hurt? Do you think you have an ear infection?” He said, “No, I just think it feels good.” Me: “Then, Ummm, No.”

Then he proceeds to tell me about his dream from the night before where someone was performing chiropractic work on him to cure some illness he was having. In his dream it was like magic…

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