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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After being told incessantly for the past 20 years that saturated fat is the most evil of all nutrients, we finally see the truth emerging that saturated fat is, in fact not only NOT unhealthy, but it is actually healthy for us.
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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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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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I was lucky enough to have a session with Ross Meyer of Real Health earlier this week. Ross is a personal trainer and health coach, but he goes so far beyond your average personal trainer it feel strange to call him one.
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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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1. Reduce/eliminate sugar from your diet 2. Reduce/eliminate wheat from your diet 3. Reduce/eliminate polyunsaturated vegetable oils (corn, cottonseed, canola, safflower, soy, “vegetable”) from you diet. 4. Take at least 1000mg of fish oil daily 5. Take at least 2000IU of Vitamin D3 daily What are your thoughts? We’d love to hear them. Please share [...]
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Ear candling is a popular practice among some alternative lay practitioners. It involves placing a hollow wax cone (a ‘candle’) in the ear and lighting it on fire.
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