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  • Are You Drinking the Healthiest Water?

    When it comes to staying hydrated, you have three options:

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    5 months ago
  • Superfood of the Week: Leeks

    …loaded with nutrients that nourish your body including vitamin C, manganese, iron, folate and vitamin B6. Leeks are a good source of fiber, too.

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    5 months ago
  • Go Ahead and Eat the Yolk

    The egg yolk contains 99% of the zinc, 90% of the calcium and 95% of the folate…egg whites are touted as the protein part of the egg, which is true.  However, the yolk contains 43% of the total egg protein and balances the amino acid profile of...

    wellwire.com5 months ago
  • How to Navigate the Farmer’s Market

    Eat local. Eat fresh. Eat sustainable. Eat organic! When you do this you can let the ingredients speak for themselves and have a wonderfully delicious and healthy meal.

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    5 months ago
  • Folic Acid and Folate

    The terms folic acid and folate are often used interchangeably…Folic acid, the more stable form, occurs rarely in foods or the human body…Folates are found in foods as well as in metabolically active forms in the human...

    lpi.oregonstate.edu5 months ago
  • Laughter is a good tension breaker & stress-reducer.

    flickr.com5 months ago
  • The Importance of Folic Acid

    Folic acid is a water-soluble B vitamin. Folic acid supports the formation of the brain and spinal cord, and helps to prevent neural tube defects. Folic acid also plays an important role in the growth and reproduction of red and white blood cells.

    5 months ago
  • “STEVIA is a small wild shrub, is from chrysanthemum family, found in South America, and is an excellent sugar substitute.– wellwire.com
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  • Take 10 deep breaths today.

    Flickr / bhutanadventures5 months ago
  • Hydrotherapy Immune Booster During the Flu Season

    Hydrotherapy is derived from the European baths and uses water at specific temperatures to achieve a desired physiologic response.

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    5 months ago
  • You Are What You Eat

    We depend on a special organ to digest the food we eat and you won’t find it in any anatomy textbook. It’s the ‘microbiome’ – a set of trillions of bacteria living inside your...link!

    5 months ago
  • BPA Lurks in Canned Soups and Drinks

    People who ate one serving of canned food daily over the course of five days, the study found, had significantly elevated levels — more than a tenfold increase — of bisphenol-A, or BPA, a substance that lines most food and drink cans.

    The New York Times5 months ago
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  • Breaking the Vicious Cycle By Elaine Gottschall

    While single sugar carbohydrates, or monosaccharides, require no further action on the part of the body to be fully absorbed and are therefore well tolerated, the more complex disaccharides (double sugars) and polysaccharides (starches) must be...

    westonaprice.org6 months ago