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The Best Health Advice…[Cultures for Health Giveaway]

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1410 1 The Best Health Advice...[Cultures for Health Giveaway] With the focus on “Getting adventurous” this week, a contest featuring the great stuff at Cultures for Health seemed appropriate!

If you haven’t entered the other contests that are still going on, check them out here:

For those of you who are not already familiar with the great cultures offered at Cultures for Health, you should check them out! They offer the cultures to make Water Kefir Soda, Kombucha (soda), cheeses and more!

I posted earlier in the week about making Probiotic Lemonade, and Water Kefir Soda
and Kombucha (soda) provide beneficial bacteria as well. They are both easy to make and are a delicious and healthy alternative to soda!

Since fermented and probiotic rich foods and drinks are so beneficial to a healthy diet and lifestyle, the theme of today’s contest seemed obvious: the best health advice you’ve ever received or given!

The Contest:

Tell me the best health advice you’ve ever given or received and win some Water Kefir Grains from Cultures for Health so you can start making your own probiotic soda!

Step One: Check out Cultures for Health and sign up for their great newsletter! It has insider coupons and discounts, as well as some great recipes, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Step Two: Leave a comment below saying that you signed up and explaining the best health advice you’ve ever gotten. Perhaps you read something that changed your life? Maybe a relative passed on a bit of wisdom that made a difference? Maybe you changed someone’s life with your advice? Tell me below!

Contest ends Sunday, August 21 at 11:59 pm CST and the winner will be posted in the weekly update on Monday.

P.S. I receive a small commission from the links to Cultures for Health above. I’ve been using their products for a while and would still recommend them without any incentive because I’ve been so impressed. If you decide to buy anything from them, I get a small percentage, and I’d be really  grateful, but if you don’t want to use the affiliate links, you can order by going to their website directly.

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  • Erinmarie Xian

    Well, at this point I HOPE it’s to go Paleo and not CW nutritional standpoints. Time will tell but so far, I’m on board and anxious to learn all I can to make my own best decisions. I will say I had to Unsubscribe from all of my health newsletters (Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Shape Magazine blah blah blah << all nonsense) So, I think on I'm the right track I just have to keep my ears closed to most media outlets :)  

  • Lisa Marie

    I signed up for their newsletter!
    The best advise I ever got was last year from a chiropractor, who said to check my vitamin D levels. I was sick 3-4 times a year with cold and chest congestions, my vitamin D turned out to be a 17, and needs to be like 50 or something :-)   Now I take Vitamin D and haven’t been the least bit sick in over a year!

  • Erinmarie Xian

    signed up for their newsletter

  • Christinahorst22

    My 94 year old grandma grows a huge veggie garden and cans and freezes for the whole year! She has her own milk cow, chickens, and beef. She makes everything from scratch and only goes to the Grocery store like once a month or less..impressive!  She isn’t on any prescription meds and still gets around great!

  • TammyVW

    A piece of advice that has worked for me is:  if I decide to eat sugar or processed foods (like the other day when I had a bit too much ice cream), just notice how I feel afterward.  This is enough to remind me why I choose to eat a paleo-style diet and keeps me focused.  (I signed up for the newsletter!)

  • Kimmis0506

    Our surgeon for my son suggested going grain free, and my Ob said even one glass of wine in early pregnancy can cause a miscarriage.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Q2UPMGGZNQD4XBZAQLILT5VVVU Anastasia

    I signed up for their newsletter. The best health advice I’ve received was to stop eating grains. I saw benefits quickly and, over time, have transformed completely – physically, mentally, and emotionally.

  • http://www.unrefinedkitchen.com Jen

    I signed up for their newsletter. The best health advice I’ve received was in April of this year. It was to try the Paleo diet for 30 days (no grains, no refined sugars, no legumes, no dairy). Wow, what a difference in my energy level, motivation, and hormones! And the best part is I’m not taking any crazy supplements or drugs! I just have had to change how I cook and eat. I recommend giving it a try if you haven’t!

  • Sarah

    I subscribe to the newsletter!  The best advice I have ever gotten was to eat a lot of fats! It was really made a difference for me.

  • ashley

    I signed up for their newsletter. The best advice I ever got was to give up grains.  Not to sound like a kiss-up but before that point every piece of advice I’d been given followed right along with Conventional Wisdom. 

  • kellie

    thanks for another great opportunity and also all of these resources you are connecting your readers to, so awesome!  the best advice i heard was to give up the conventional notion of calories in and calories out . . . instead to view health as information in and information out.  in other words there are so many inputs besides calories, like stress/cortisol, sleep, exercise, rest, toxin levels, proteins, and fats, that all really help our body decide what its health output is going to be.   this explains so much about why dieting wasnt working for me and helps me to live a healthier and happier life from all angles! cheers!

  • Sarahb

    I’m already signed up for their newsletter.
    And I think the best advice was hammered in pretty early on…don’t smoke! It’s easy to quit if you never stop. So I never have to worry about all the negative side effects or the cost involved!

  • Anonymous

    I signed up for their newsletter!
    Best advice was if I can’t read/understand an ingredient in a product then I shouldn’t buy/eat it. 

  • Emily

    I signed up! 
    The best advice I got was from my mom when I had our 1st daughter (now we have 3)& I was getting up through the night nursing.  She said, “Dishes, laundry, cleaning, etc can wait long enough for you to get a nap each day.”  I quickly found that I was a much calmer & happier wife/mommy at the end of the day if I caught a few winks.

  • StephanieW

    I am subscibed to the newsletter.
    The best advice I received (recently) was to never eat anything that doesn’t rot.

  • Kaitlin Alfermann

    I signed up! Good timing toom, I’ve been trying to decide between ordering Kefir grains or Kombucha grains from them for a week now! Maybe this will help my decision.

    The best advice I got about nutrition was from someone who worked for Couple to Couple League. She suggested drinking whole, raw milk to help with infertility. It wasn’t just switching milk-it was the spark that began my investigation of REAL food and how necessary it was for me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=586930323 Cecilia Duval Powers

    i’ve been signed up for their newsletter for a while. 

    this might not be “advice” but it is something that i learned, but most importantly, my young impressionable daughter learned about 1.5 years ago. she had an infection in her throat/neck or something. went to the chiro, he adjusted her and massaged her. i needed to take her to a family practice (after firing her pediatrician as he said chiros are no good). the family practice doctor said that he needed to prescribe her antibiotics. when i said i didn’t want her to have any, he said “what if she has strep”. i knew she didn’t, absolutely no symptoms, but i wanted to see what would happen. he swabbed her and while “waiting” for the results, he said that he hoped she had strep so i would allow her to have antibiotics. shockingly the test came back positive. i had her rest that day and the next, by the following day (36 hours) she was good to go and perfect again, without any antibiotics, but just with going grain free, sugar free and eating healthy foods, stocking up on vitamin c, water and rest. my little princess still remembers it and talks about being healthy all the time and that by good food, water, rest and exercise, she will be healthy for a long time. 

    i hope i get this contest. i had been making water kefir, but i got my grains from somewhere else *gasp* and they never really grew and then i ended up completely killing them while i was on vacation. i didn’t mind too much, since they weren’t growing. anyway, i have been wanting to get some more!!!  

  • Soccy

    I’ve signed up for the newsletter. The best advice I received was being given the book ” Super Baby Foods”. Looking up the book online, I came across a review of the book in Passionate Homemaking’s blog. That started me on my TF conversion. It’s been 2 years now and our diet (while still a work in progress) barely resembles what it did before.

  • Soccy

    I’ve signed up for the newsletter. The best advice I received was being given the book ” Super Baby Foods”. Looking up the book online, I came across a review of the book in Passionate Homemaking’s blog. That started me on my TF conversion.

  • Jmm2858

    I signed up for the newsletter.  Best advice I get is from Mark’s Daily Apple website. My husband and I both went primal and have lost weight and feel great! My father-in-law came over yesterday with hotdogs and buns for the grill. We both ate one hotdog on a bun and we both commented later on how crappy we felt afterward!

  • theresa gianna

    already signed up for the newsletter.
    i’ve read and seen so many great things, but i’d have to say Food, Inc may have impacted me most. i watched it again and again. of course it doesn’t tell you much about nutrition in general, but it was just so striking how far our food has come from where it started.

    “I’m always struck by how successful we have been at hitting the bull’s-eye of the wrong target. I mean we have learned–for example, how to plant, fertilize and harvest corn using global positioning satellite technology, and nobody sits back and asks “But should we be feeding cows corn?”We’ve become a culture of technicians. We’re all into–we’re all into the how of it and nobody’s stepping back and saying “But why?”

    I mean, a culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure to be manipulated by whatever creative design that humans can foist on that critter will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations with the same type of disdain, disrespect and controlling-type mentality.”– Farmer Salatin

  • Tmcamil

    I am signed up to receive their newsletters.  One of the best advices I ever got was to listen to your body when you are not feeling well.

  • Tmcamil

    I am signed up to receive their newsletters.  One of the best advices I ever got was to listen to your body when you are not feeling well.

  • Cecilia Krueger

    done!
    “Don’t put your trust in the medical system!”

     http://created4health.org/devotionals/Medicine-Idolatry_in_the_Twenty_First_Century.htm

  • Tracy E.

    Signed up!  The best advice I’ve had was to not eat gluten.  

  • Tasha

    Hi- I signed up for the newsletter.
    And the best advice is drink water! Lots of it. Lemon water and cucumber water are our favorites. Would love to mix it up with kefir water!

  • Anonymous

    Signed up for the newsletter. Best advice I ever got was to get off sugar! Eventually led me to discover the paleo lifestyle, which has dramatically changed my life for the better!

  • oliveluski2

    I’m already signed up for their newsletter. I found out about the GAPS diet and have been doing it for maybe 9 months on and off. It’s very difficult at times, but I’ve learned that the body is amazing and can heal given the right circumstances. I’m not doomed to continue down this road of declining health, I can do something about it!

  • http://profiles.google.com/getfitkate Kate M.

    I’ve been signed up for the newsletter for a while.

    The best advice I’ve given is to give up grains and eat whole foods for a month.  It changed my life.  A friend of mine is in the middle of that 1 month trial right now, and although it has been a challenge to let go of old eating habits and conveniences, she told me that she feels phenomenal.  Her teenage daughter is doing it with her on a whim, and she is convinced that it has improved her acne in just a couple of weeks.

    Good health to you,
    Kate

  • Jennymoonstar

    I already subscribed to the newsletter. The best piece of advice I got when I became vegetarian was to start reading labels and eat organic whole foods. I still follow that advice but now have added meat to my diet for complete nutrition.