Posted in Allergies: Food, Digestion, Elimination-Challenge Diet, Emotional Health, Food, Health, Intolerances: Food, Mental Health, Natural Medicine, Naturopathic doctors, Naturopathic medicine, Physical health, Reactions: Food on Apr 7th, 2010
Many of us have issues that we’ve been dealing with for a long time, and we’ve gotten used to them, to the extent that we don’t even notice them or pay attention to them on a regular basis. Therefore it’s important to back up and take an inventory of your health and disease before you begin the ECD, so you can truly get a sense of how much benefit you’ve received from doing it.
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Like the tag line from the old TV show, The 6 Million Dollar Man,” We can make our children better, faster, stronger, smarter…” And if we don’t do everything we can to that end, then we are failures as parents and we are condemning our children to be failures for the rest of their lives. This trend, called hyper-parenting by some has become disturbingly pervasive around the world.
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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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Enter Business as Unusual by Anita Roddick, one of the founders of the Body Shop. In this book she talks candidly about her experience from founding the Body Shop to making it a worldwide company. How she never compromised her principles despite intense pressure within and without the company to stop “her silliness and get with the program”, that is, running a business with the bottom line as the only goal.
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The movie deals with meaning in life, inspiration and persistence (it took Julia Childs over 8 years to get her book published and lots of rejection from publishing houses), love and relationship (in the two couples), and a deep joy around food. If my little blurb sounds interesting, I highly recommend you watch the movie. I came away from it inspired and joyful, and will be adding it to my movie collection.
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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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