Why Change What You're Eating?- Lauren Finds Balance with Real Food (Guest Post)

Why Change What You're Eating?- Lauren Finds Balance with Real Food (Guest Post)

Yay! I have another food healing story to share. This is doubly awesome since my computer died and I’m in the process of finding a new one. So THANK YOU, Lauren :)

Lauren lives in beautiful Summerside, Prince Edward Island.  She has a job she LOVES in healthcare and recently adopted a bunny named Binky. Some of the stuff she shares on her blog: whole foods, home cooking, fermentation, probiotics, natural birthing and fertility, alternative medicines, and homeschooling.

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Why Change What You're Eating?- The Story of a Boy With a Starving Brain (Guest Post)

Why Change What You're Eating?- The Story of a Boy With a Starving Brain (Guest Post)

The past couple of weeks have been amazing and exhausting! I had my finals and graduation for my Nutritional Therapy program!!! Yay!  Add in all of my procrastinated homework, my regular day job,  and birthday parties for my daughter and I'm pretty beat. But grateful ! Everyone at our graduation celebration had a chance to talk about how changing what they ate changed their health. I'm a total sucker for a good healing story, and there were a lot of them :).

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What's the Big Deal?- Food Allergies and Sensitivities

A lot of people are suddenly claiming to have food allergies or sensitivities. Do you ever wonder why?

I work in public school. Every year the list of students with life threatening food allergies grows bigger! When I was a kid, I knew only two people with food allergies the entire time I was growing up. 

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Your Brain on Elderberry

Your Brain on Elderberry

My kids always ask me for elderberry capsules when they start getting sick. I think it's great that they choose this over any other cold or flu medicine <3 !  Elderberry is a folk remedy with a crazy list of benefits.  It's a powerful antioxidant, helps lower cholesterol, improves vision, and helps your body fight bacterial and viral infections. Elderberry juice has been used to treat influenza, and was very effective!

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What Does My Belly Have to Do with My Brain?

What Does My Belly Have to Do with My Brain?

How does what's going on in the digestive system affect the brain? Now that I understand more about how the body works, I realize if your digestive system isn't working, the rest of your body can't possibly work! But I have to say that for most of my life I just thought of food and digestion as calories and fat. I wanted to be sure I didn't eat too many calories, because that's the important thing, right? Being overweight makes you unhealthy, right?

I didn't pay attention to the fact that:

"Every cell that makes up every tissue that makes up every organ DEPENDS on the body's digestive system to provide nutrients it needs to keep functioning."

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The Good Guys- Probiotics

The Good Guys- Probiotics

I've been a fan of bacteria for a long time. I gave probiotics to my son and they helped him recover from waaaay too many antibiotics given to him as a baby (repeated ear infections).

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