Finding Your Macro-Nutrient Ratio: What’s YOUR Carb Tolerance?

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Listen to the Podcast: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Are you doing what the mass-market diet programs tell you to do when it comes to carbohydrate consumption? If so, have you noticed that you’re on a roller coaster ride? This diet tells you to eat more. That diet tells you to eat less. [...]

Do You Know How to Take Care of Yourself?

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Listen to the Podcast: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] It’s sad that our Western culture is so out of touch with what it takes to really take care of these precious human bodies. Most of us have been conditioned into thinking that taking care of ourselves is secondary to work, caring for the [...]

Test, Don’t Guess: The Importance of ACCURATE Gluten Testing

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Listen to the Podcast: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] In the last five years, I’ve had two blood tests for gluten sensitivity. Both came out negative. Now, I’m not one to eat a lot of wheat, but from the results of my tests, I figured gluten was fairly safe for me to be [...]

Cooking My Way Through an Eighth of a Cow

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Listen to the Podcast: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] It was only two years ago that I started eating red meat after 20 years of abstinence. And now I go and buy a cow. Last week, my friend and colleague Lynne Eppel (Edible Front Range Magazine) and I went in together to purchase [...]

10 Tips for Healthy Holiday Feasting

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Listen to the Podcast: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] There’s no way around eating good food during the holidays, and lots of it. But wouldn’t it be nice if you and your guests actually felt good after the feast? And even the day after? Sign up for Alison’s Natural Health and Cooking eLetter! [...]

7 Components to Festive (and Nutritious) Seasonal Salads

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Listen to the Podcast: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Although summer boasts fresh, raw veggies, the fall and winter months offer their own share of hearty, healthy, immune-boosting, disease-fighting fare. The holiday season is also the flu season, so now is NOT the time to give them up – we need as much [...]

Taking Minerals the Natural Way (with homemade “sole water”)

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Listen to the Podcast: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] “You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.” – Linus Pauling, PhD, winner of two Nobel prizes In this day and age, most of us (if not all) need to consider mineral supplementation due to depleted minerals in [...]

Beating the Bugs (without vaccines)

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Listen to the Podcast: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Flu season is here, and there’s more hype than ever. With swine flu on the loose, the fear and tension rises as we anticipate how bad it may get. Pressure is on to get flu shots, but for those of us with a holistic [...]