Why You Can’t Out Supplement A Poor Diet
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One trend I’ve noticed in the real food and health communities lately is an almost fanatical obsession with an certain aspect of healthy living, while completely ignoring (or just not…
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Simple solutions to help you improve your family’s health through a combination of a real food diet, and optimizing factors like sleep, reducing stress and avoiding toxins.
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Take the “Mama Wellness” Health Challenge!
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Are you struggling to make all the changes you know you should make for your health? Looking for answers to improve your health but don’t know where to start? Just…
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Is Circumcision Just A Medical Procedure?
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Disclaimer: This is a post on a very personal and controversial topic. I have gotten several questions about it lately and while I’ve been avoiding the topic due to its…
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4 Unusual Ways to Boost Oral Health
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I’ve always been somewhat fascinated with the methods available to naturally boost oral health. I remember asking my orthodontist why my teeth were crooked to begin with when getting braces.…
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Easy At Home Workouts for Moms
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As a mom, it isn’t always possible or practical to get to the gym everyday. I’m also not a fan of long hours on the treadmill, especially since high intensity…
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The Importance of Balancing Stress Hormones
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I write a lot about the importance of nutrition and exercise for overall health, weight loss, and prevention of disease and certainly, the importance of these things can’t be overstated,…
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Health Benefits of Salt Baths
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Most people are deficient in Magnesium… in fact, you probably are too. Magnesium is the second most abundant element in our bodies, and is used in regulating over 300 enzymes…
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Vitamins and Supplements for Children
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I’ve shared before the supplements I take regularly, and which ones are I add in specifically during pregnancy or nursing. Supplements for Children… Another time when nutrition is incredibly important and sometimes difficult to…
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Is a Low Carb Diet Healthy?
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“Is a Low Carb Diet Healthy?” This question has been swirling around the blogosphere lately with many different answers. Some claim that really low-carb is the only way to go,…
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How to Implement Nutrition Changes
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When trying to implement nutrition changes, it can often be overwhelming to think of all the changes that need to be made and figure out what should be done first.…
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The Importance of Eating “Real Food”
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Nutrition has a tremendous impact on overall health, and is a huge focus of the Wellness Lifestyle. If you’ve been a Wellness Mama reader for a while, you know that…
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Are Sprouted, Soaked, & Fermented Grains Healthy?
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Grains are a controversial food in modern times, and perhaps with good reason. They aren’t the food they were thousands of years ago, or hundreds of years ago, or even…
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Are You Low on Magnesium?
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The answer is likely “Yes” that you are deficient in Magnesium. Magnesium is the eighth most abundant mineral on earth, and the third most abundant in sea water. More importantly,…
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Wheat Belly Book Review
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A while back, I interviewed Dr. William Davis, MD, author of the New York Times bestselling book Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back…
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Strength Training for Women
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Many women shy away from lifting weights, and especially heavy weights, because of fears of getting too bulky or putting on too much muscle. Thanks to a couple of hormones…
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Why a Kettlebell Is the Best Home Workout for Moms
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Fitness is a vital part of any overall wellness regimen, though it should follow a healthy diet and lifestyle, rather than take the place of it. There are hundreds of…
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How I Take Fulvic & Humic Minerals
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I’ve written about the many benefits of humic minerals and fulvic acids and how they can dramatically impact health and I’ve gotten a lot of questions about how to practically…
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The Strangest Food I Ever Ate…
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One (of many) problems that I see with our modern diet is that it is not varied and the majority of the foods we consume contain similar (but boring) ingredients…
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Is Carb Flu Normal?
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I often get this question from people who are new to a healthy way of living and are experiencing some uncomfortable symptoms. Especially if you are switching from a conventional…
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Why The New MyPlate Recommendations Won’t be on My Plate
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With all the news about the old USDA Food Pyramid being replaced by the new MyPlate (which only cost the government $2 million to create!) I thought that an in-depth…
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Does the Bible Say We Should Eat Grains?
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I often (ok, basically always) encourage readers to ditch the grains for the sake of their health, and many do see tremendous health improvements by doing so. One question/objection I…
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Do You Have a Stinking Gut? (And Why You Should Want One)
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Hippocrates was once quoted for saying “all disease begins in the gut.” Time is proving Hippocrates to be a pretty smart guy, and science is even now linking poor gut…
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The Real Roots of Heart Disease?
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Note: this article is long and goes into a lot of science. If that isn’t your thing, watch the movie Fat Head. It explains much of this in a very entertaining…
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Why Saturated Fat Is Not the Enemy (& Why We Need It)
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Conventional wisdom (at least for the last few decades) says that saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for you and contribute to heart disease…. but what does the evidence say?…