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What is a ‘holistic’ Health Fair?
Here in Colorado, Channel 9 News sponsors something called the “9 Health Fair”. These fairs happen all over the state throughout the year and feature vaccination clinics, blood donation areas, dental exams, eye exams, BMI checking, A1C and diabetes testing,…
Read MoreClean Livin’ for your Spring Cleanse
Spring is here! Are you cleansing? Our bodies naturally accumulate toxins and waste by-products during the slow, and sedentary winter months. Now is the time to give your body a fresh start on the year by cleaning out the nooks…
Read MoreJoin the Homestead for Get Healthy! 2016
Do you know about the USDA’s online food tracker? It’s called Super Tracker and has cool features like setting goals, menu planning, a physical activity tracker and showing your daily food intake in terms of balanced nutrition spread across the…
Read MoreWhy I’m boycotting the FDA’s attempt to define “natural”
Yonder younger years, when I was a wee one curious about all things in the natural world, I was full of quarrelous quandries for my poor mum: “What is superfluous?” “What does ironic mean?” “How would you explain redundant to…
Read MoreEveryday Detox: The most delicious cleanse you’ve ever tried
At first glance, Everyday Detox is really just a recipe book. Sure, the recipes are simple, wholesome and they look delicious, but how can that help me to detox when our environment is so inescapably toxic – from GMO contamination…
Read MoreFood is medicine and the other way ’round
Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates (460-377 BC) Younger, stronger bodies seem to utilize every last calorie to the fullest – only now that I’m in my 30’s am I appreciating the…
Read Moredelectable Dandelion, an ode to taraxacum officinale
Summer memories of my youth are filled with dandelions – I was given a 10 cents allowance for digging up dandelions and throwing them in the compost, but when no one was looking I was weaving faerie crowns with golden…
Read MoreNatural Baby – Healthy Child by Murray Clarke, ND., D.Hom., L.Ac
Natural Baby – Healthy Child: Alternative Health Care Solutions from Pre-conception Through Childhood, from Allergies to Autism, Aslthma, Ear Infections, Colds, Flus, and ADD/ADHD By Murray Clarke, ND., D.Hom., L.Ac. Every would-be, soon-to-be and veteran parent should read this book….
Read MoreConventional Medicine & Homeopathy: A Can of Worms
Someone sent me a link to an article about the ‘dangers’ of Homeopathy, perhaps out of fear because I advocate the use of Homeopathy for children. Here’s the link to the original article, for my readers who are interested. Because…
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