Prenatal Nutrition and Birth Defects

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3.3.16_Prenatal_Nutrition “Vitamin deficiencies known to cause birth defects in animals include [those of] thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, folate, and vitamins A, B6, B12, C, D, E, and K. In animal studies, shortages of these nutrients cause cleft palate, hydrocephalus (water on the brain), conjoined twins, and kidney, limb, eye, and brain malformations.” Read more …

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Why do I Crave Sugar And Get Fatigued?

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IMG_20160211_161441 You may have that typical lunch at work during a working lunch: sandwich, chips or potato salad, fruit, and a ‘wonderful’ dessert (see image). When I see that lunch in front of me, my mind goes to blood sugar handling issues with all of those carbs and hardly any fat. Gggggrrrr!

Imagine the numerous times you trigger your insulin in a day’s time:
Breakfast includes: granola, yogurt, fruit, and skim milk or orange juice
Lunch: Sandwich, chips or fries, diet soda, something sweet
Afternoon snack: candy bar or handful of nuts, another couple of fruits
Dinner: Pasta with spaghetti sauce with ground turkey, garlic bread with margarine, ice cream. [Read more…]

Reproductive system and dietary fats

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The female reproductive system requires fat-soluble vitamins (A,E,F,K) as well as other vitamins found in the right kinds of dietary fats for good health. When these nutrients are missing, female reproductive health is compromised, and given time, it will break down, resulting in what has become known as “irreversible” changes that require hysterectomy.* Be sure YOU take responsibility for getting the proper nutrition to allow YOUR body to heal itself. You have choices and options!

*West, Bruce, Dr. Natural Fitness Newsletter, Vol 7, Issue 8, page 2
Resource: Enig, Mary, PhD. Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils and Cholesterol, pg 90. Bethesda Press, Silver Spring, MD, 2000.

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Just Because It’s Common, Doesn’t Make it Normal Series: Kidney stones

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Ouch! When you have kidney stones, there’s not enough phosphorous to hold the calcium in solution and the extra calcium starts precipitating out of the body fluids. If it precipitates into your kidneys, it forms kidney stones. If onto your teeth, it is tartar. If it’s in your bones, it’s arthritis. All symptoms of phosphorous deficiency. This doesn’t mean you have too much phosphorous. It just means you don’t have enough calcium to buckle the phosphorous. Schedule your nutritional exam today to come up with a whole food concentrates protocol.

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What does Meat have to do with Weight Gain?

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After listening to this video, I submitted my comments below:

Yep! If you keep expecting different results when you keep doing the same thing, you get the same results over and over. No matter what diet a person has – meat eater, vegan, vegetarian, etc – if you don’t have the correct [Read more…]