Nutrition for pregnant moms, babies, toddlers…..part 1 of 5
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: My baby is breastfeeding, and doing great. But I know I have to make the transition. Besides blending cooked vegetables, what else should I do? Answer: Please share this blog series with anyone with a baby, or anyone thinking about starting a family. What I’m about to tell you is worth more than [...]
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I don’t preach about the -isms. I don’t talk about or embrace words like raw foodist, vegetarian, or vegan, even though I do teach to eat a high-raw, mostly-plants diet. I leave it to you to figure out whether you want organic, clean eggs, cheese, milk, or meat as a small (5% or less) part [...]
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Depression and Anxiety Nutrition Strategies, part 3 of 3
More strategies, if you’re serious about addressing what causes your depression and/or anxiety: 5. High-fructose corn syrup has to go. I noticed that any HFCS, such as found in candy, drinks, and cheap processed food, caused me anxiety for several days after I ate it. In a few times in my life, when life circumstances [...]
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Depression and Anxiety Nutrition Strategies, part 2 of 3
1. Are you getting enough greens? They contain the most bioavailable minerals of all foods. Bioavailable refers how much of the nutrient is actually utilized by your body, as opposed to how much of that nutrient is in the food. (For instance, dairy milk is high in calcium. But human beings use very little of it, [...]
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Depression and Anxiety Nutrition Strategies, part 1 of 3
My friend Shari called me last week. “Guess what. My friend Emily was totally normal, and has been in mental hospitals for 12 years now. They found out a few months ago that it was the MEDS they started her on that made her crazy. She’s been off them for two months and she’s just [...]
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Recovering from oral surgery….part 3 of 3
I am more committed now than ever, to good nutrition. I want to keep my teeth healthy! I don’t want to face more dental decay. We live longer than people did back when infectious disease and dreadful working conditions were rampant. And we’re vain as a culture. So we have to have beautiful, straight, white [...]
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Recovering from surgery….+ thoughts about YOUR dental treatments, part 1 of 3
Last Friday, I had five hours of oral surgery under general anaesthesia. I had my two root-canal teeth removed. I had read multiple books and papers on toxic dental practices, and had become convinced that root canals are UNIVERSALLY a terrible idea. I’d learned that the research of Weston A. Price, possibly the most well [...]
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We’re back from the Pacific Northwest! part 1 of 2
Just back from the Pacific Northwest, where our audience size has doubled each of the three times I have spoken there. I had Couer d’Alene on the schedule so I could see my grandpa, but he died in May. We went anyway and spoke to nearly 150 of our friends, and then 230 in Seattle [...]
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Antibiotics and dental surgery….do I agree with taking AB’s preventatively? Part 2 of 2
Answer: Dr. Larson, I have always appreciated how conscientious you are in your practice, and in your ongoing study to legitimately find the truth. And I think it’s impressive that you stay open minded….plenty of docs wouldn’t even ask me what I think. Like I once did, they trust only peer-reviewed-journal-published clinical trials. Of course, [...]
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Antibiotics and dental surgery….do I agree with taking AB’s preventatively? Part 1 of 2
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: I think you are pretty conservative and avoid antibiotics, but I had an interesting experience recently in my dental practice that I want to share with you. You influence a lot of people to make better choices for their health, and if you agree with me and my position as a health care [...]
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