Nutrition Only in Animal-Based Foods

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When it comes to personal food choices there are several nutrients that are considered only existing in, are better in quality from, or are easier to obtain from animal-based foods. Many people believe that this notion indicates that humans are naturally meant to eat animals and that doing so is not only justifiable, but necessary. The […]

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Alkalizing the Body is Oxygenating the Body

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What I love about studying alkalizing foods is that it leads one to a whole food, plant-based diet. If you can’t bring yourself to eat plants for the benefit of the environment, the welfare of animals, or willingness to feed global people, then perhaps you could be convinced to eat a plant-based diet for the […]

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Choosing the Safest Fats, Carbs, and Proteins

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Fats, carbohydrates, and proteins are macro-nutrients, not food groups. All whole foods, by definition, are a combination of these three macro-nutrients in a form that is minimally processed. Fats serve to insulate and protect our bodies. They help keep us warm, cushion our interaction with gravity, help metabolize fat soluble vitamins, and assist the conduction of energy […]

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How to Cultivate Personal Change

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There are times in life when we wish to change ourselves, our habits, or our behavior because we don’t like the outcomes and results we’ve been getting. The time might be the turn of a new year, our birthday, a new season, or any given day…like a Monday. To make these changes we need to […]

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Notes from a 10 Day Bikram Challenge

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Bikram yoga is a specific type of yoga practice. Each class is 90 minutes in duration and includes the same sequence of 26 postures (or poses) each done twice with a breathing exercise at the beginning of class and one at the end. The yoga room is heated to 104 degree Fahrenheit with humidity at […]

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Alcohol is Junkfood

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First, let’s take a Sunday-drive through the dictionary. Alcohol: a colorless, limpid, volatile, flammable, water-miscible liquid, C 2 H 5 OH, having an etherlike odor and pungent, burning taste, the intoxicating principle of fermented liquors, produced by yeast fermentation of certain carbohydrates, as grains, molasses, starch, or sugar, or obtained synthetically by hydration of ethylene or as […]

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How I Cured Cankles & Cold Toes

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Cankels are not pretty. So you can imagine my horror when I started to develop them on a regular basis earlier this year. What are cankles, some of you may be asking. Cankles are unusually thick or stout ankles caused by weight gain or fluid retention. The clever word is a blend of calf and […]

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Urgent Call to Action: 3 Clicks to Feed Hungry People

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I need your immediate help! Super Quick Version 1. Click here: walmart.com/holidaymakeover . 2. At the top right, connect your Facebook account so that you can vote. You will only need to do this step once. 3. Scroll down. In the white bar in the green box type SC or South Carolina. Press RETURN. 4. You […]

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