Mg (Mighty Good) for Breast Health

We have heard about the importance of magnesium for good bone and heart health and may not be aware of its importance for good breast health. Magnesium for Vitamin D Synthesis Even if you are getting enough Vitamin D, without enough magnesium, you may not be able to raise your blood levels of Vitamin D and a Vitamin D level of…

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Sweating For Better Health

For better health, our approach to sweating should be focused on reducing stress, eating a healthy diet, balancing hormones, and making sure your lifestyle includes getting physically hotter as often as possible through moderate sun exposure, using a sauna and/or getting physical exercise.

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Flaxseed is a Breast Health Superfood

In addition to being good for overall health, flaxseed, also known as linseed, is one of the top foods for good breast health.   As the best vegetarian source of the omega-3 fatty acid ALA, both flaxseed and flax oil protect every body system because they are anti-inflammatory.  High in fiber, flax is an ancient whole grain that promotes regularity and…

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Are you Cleansing or Detoxing Right Now?

Detoxing or cleansing are buzz words in the health world today.  I’m pleased that more people now know that they can cleanse or detox their bodies by eating fresh vegetables and fruits grown organically or without pesticides. Consuming these vegetables and fruits in their raw state by juicing is especially effective and we are fortunate in Charlotte that if we…

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It takes Leaders like John Robbins to win the Food Revolution

I was so inspired by John Robbins’ personal story he told at an IIN conference I attended recently, that I returned home to immediately put his book, Diet for a New America (which I had already bought), on the top of my stack.  A synopsis of his story:  After declining the opportunity to follow in his dad’s footsteps in the…

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Blink and They Will be Gone

Strawberries arrived earlier than normal this year because of the warm temperatures in March. Grown year round in California, strawberries are one of our most popular fruits whose intense sweet flavor is unsurpassed when we can pick and/or buy them locally in the spring. Because they taste so good, are locally grown strawberries grown differently than their counterparts from California?…

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