BlogMiso Promotes Health, Prevents Disease, Helps with Colds and Flus
Miso a healthful condiment, a recipe for miso scallion soup to help cure a cold or flu.
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Save your Bones with Nutrition not Pharmaceuticals
As a health care provider, a woman and mother: Bone health is near and dear to my sternum.
I have a number of patients who are on Fosamax or who have been on Fosamax and either stay on it for lack of trustworthy or affordable alternatives, or go off of it to avoid its very real [...]
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Pox Naturally-Another Family’s Experience
Following is another family’s experience with chickenpox. They attended a pox playtime at our house within the first three days of our children’s outbreak. Names have been changed to protect identity.
Nancy D. a mother of 4-year-old Claudia and 11-month-old Cullen (who is still nursing) writes:
“Overall, our chicken pox experience was manageable. Claudia got the worst [...]
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Chickenpox Naturally
Chickenpox Naturally
As the mother of four children under the age of 10, and a busy holistic health care practice, sick children are not a reality I have the time to deal with or desire to promote. Of course, nobody wants to promote illness in their children. Yet, childhood illness has an important place in the [...]
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Breath Matters
If you are reading this you are likely breathing.
However how much of your lungs are you really using? Are you nourishing every cell with your inhalation and really expelling the old stale air with your exhalation? Or are you breathing shallowly, you diaphragm barely budging, your breath filling only a small portion of your lungs?
So [...]
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Gluten free delights.
More and more of my clients are receiving confirmation that their systems are more likely to thrive, when they markedly reduce or eliminate glutinous grains from their diet. They note reduced swelling and pain, clearer skin, improved memory and mood after eliminating glutinous grains. Some notice the improvement within days and for others it takes [...]
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Breastfeeding Support
One of the things I love about East Asian Medicine is that it has so very much to offer women: From menarche to menopause, and quiet a bit around the childbearing years.
Once pregnancy and labor and delivery have occurred, the next big potential obstacle is breastfeeding. Baby’s are born to breastfeed and the breastfed infant [...]
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Shulamit Devorah’s Birth Story and more
I had expected her to come close to or after her due date of December 26.
I had work left to do: I had clients to see, money to earn and save, more household order to create, baby clothes, diapers and blankets to find and clean, important discussions to have, fears to express [...]
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Pregnancy and Posture
There was a study done in the 1970s that indicated that single pregnant women were less likely to suffer from pregnancy related back pain than married pregnant women.
What a bizarre correlation!
Yet it makes sense. The study indicated that unmarried pregnant women, in attempts to minimize and possibly hide their pregnancy, would engage their abdominal muscles [...]
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Success with a Painful Condition
This is not the most comfortable health concern to talk about for many reasons, but many people suffer from it and feel helpless.
You need not be helpless against:
Hemorrhoids
What a pain in the tush!
They often crop up during pregnancy or after delivery. They are common in people with sedentary jobs and poor fiber intake. Men and [...]
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Kale Salad
Raw Kale Salad Recipe-Yummy
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Detoxification Support Through Dry Skin Brushing
I was introduced to Dry Skin Brushing in my immunology class during acupuncture school. It is a technique that I have used off and on throughout the years and I can attest, that when I do it regularly, I notice health improvements as well as glowing skin. I have not done it lately and [...]
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Purification Recipes
The Standard Process 21 Day Purification Program is a powerful tool to start getting your health back into balance. Unlike many detoxes, the purification program is full of delicious and nutritious foods and shakes. I have found the greatest success with this program when my meals are planned out and I always have something satisfying [...]
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A 21 Day Purification Journey
A journey of a thousand pounds begins with just one … bite?
Like many Americans, I have lost and gained hundreds of pounds over my lifetime. Some pounds were lost, but always regained, through stringent calorie counting and excessive exercise. Many were gained through consumption of processed foods and lack of activity. After years of abuse, [...]
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Be Stroke Savvy Part 2
Strokes are scary and can be prevented, if one is willing to take responsibility for health and live life according to nature’s intentions rather than mass marketing and media. Prevention is by far the best medicine.
If you suspect someone has had a stroke, early treatment is essential for best outcome.
In fact, if someone has a [...]
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Be Stroke Savvy
Cardiovascular disease is on the rise and one of the most feared cardiovascular events is a stroke. A stroke occurs when a blood clot obstructs the flow of blood to the brain. If a stroke goes untreated, permanent paralysis or death can occur.
Of course the best way to treat a stroke is to prevent it [...]
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Sugar Woes-Agave not so great.
Ancient humans consumed an average about a a pound of concentrated sugar a year. Today the average is anywhere from 150 to 230 pounds of concentrated sugar. High Fructose corn syrup and soda plays a big role in this obscene increase.
If sugar were as good for the body as it tastes we would not be [...]
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Happy Meals!
I have spent much of my life determining the best foods to eat in order to support and sustain wellness, vitality and joy. Food should be a pleasure and nourishing. I aim to guide my clients in choosing an optimal diet to support their health and healing.
Simpler is better.
I recommend Simple Quad system of eating [...]
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Treasure Mapping
There is the idea that if you don’t know what you want, you won’t get it and that you must see it to believe it.
A Treasure map helps in both regards.
The treasure map is based on the Ba Gua. The Bagua originates from the I Ching, or “Book of Changes”, an ancient divination tool many [...]
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Four Generations
This New Year I made a Treasure Map to map out my aspirations for the coming year. One of the quotes I put into my career section was “If you get paid for doing something you love, then every paycheck is a bonus.” This past Sunday I felt especially blessed to be able to do [...]
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