Posted in Allergies: Food, Digestion, Digestive Health, Elimination-Challenge Diet, Emotional Health, Food, Health, Intolerances: Food, Medicine, Mental Health, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Mar 26th, 2010
Removing the major reactive foods (wheat, dairy, and eggs) wipes out a large percentage of what most people eat, for some people up to 80-90%. Many people never get out of this stage because they simply don’t know what to eat. Planning is important on an ECD because 99% of the fast, easy, convenience foods are not going to be appropriate. So having meals figured out in advance is critical to your success.
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Posted in Allergies: Food, Celiac disease, Digestion, Digestive Health, Digestive Health, Food, Health, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Mar 11th, 2010
Excluding gluten from your diet unfortunately is much easier said than done however. Here is how you go about it…
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Posted in Allergies, Allergies: Food, Digestion, Digestive Health, Elimination-Challenge Diet, Emotional Health, Food, Health, Intolerances: Food, Mental Health, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Mar 4th, 2010
Even small amounts of reactive foods can keep the immune system activated and symptoms present. This is why preparing your food yourself is so important.
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Posted in Allergies, Allergies: Food, Digestion, Digestive Health, Elimination-Challenge Diet, Emotional Health, Food, Health, Health Care, Intolerances: Food, Mental Health, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Mar 4th, 2010
Before undertaking an ECD (Elimination-Challenge Diet) it’s important to determine your motivation. What is going to give you the drive to persist through the early cravings? What is going to allow you to say no when you get in situations where it would be so much easier to simply say yes? Unless you plan to be a hermit for the 3-4 week duration of the elimination part of the diet, you need to have motivation.
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Posted in Allergies: Food, Digestion, Digestive Health, Elimination-Challenge Diet, Emotional Health, Food, Health, Intolerances: Food, Mental Health, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Feb 17th, 2010
In our quest to keep our pets healthy, we had transitioned from supermarket kibble to high end dog and cat food. When we learned about the raw diet we slowly transitioned to a raw meat diet for both our cats and dogs. The changes we have seen after adopting this diet have been phenomenal.
If a change from a junk food to a high-quality diet could make such a tremendous change in our pets, how would we feel if we did the same thing? And so we decided to do just that.
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Posted in Autism, Children's Health, Digestion, Digestive Health, Emotional Health, Food, GAPS diet, Health, Medicine, Mental Health, Natural Medicine, Probiotics, Reactions: Food on Feb 2nd, 2010
Autism is a devastating disorder of childhood that has been rapidly increasing over the past 20 years. According to the Autism Society of America autism is “a complex developmental disability typically appears during the first 3 years of life and is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the normal functioning of the brain, [...]
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Osteoporosis is a long-term serious consequence of celiac disease. Traditionally thought to be a problem of poor absorption of nutrients such as calcium and vitamin D, a new study suggests that it might also be the result of autoimmunity against a person’s bones.
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A recent study published last month in the scientific journal Pediatrics has shown that using probiotic supplements (‘good’ bacteria) can dramatically reduce the chance that your children will get the cold or flu. And with tremendous concern over Swine Flu this year, using natural methods to strengthen our immunity can alleviate fear and help keep us healthy.
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Posted in Allergies: Food, Celiac disease, Digestion, Digestive Health, Dysbiosis, Food, Intolerance: Fructose, Intolerance: Lactose, Intolerances: Food, Leaky Gut, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Reactions: Food on Jul 2nd, 2009
Understanding Allergies, Intolerances, and Reactions to Food
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