Should you detox: can detoxing improve your health?

Posted by on Mar 21, 2013 in Toxins & Detoxification, Weight | Comments Off …how can detoxing be used to improve health????? Most people have some idea of what detoxing is but they also have some confusion about why it is considered helpful by holistic practitioners for improved health. The concept of detoxing or cleansing can probably be traced back thousands of years. In ancient times people didn’t have the blenders, detox in a box products or go to spas...
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What are the benefits of alkalizing your body?

Posted by on Jan 3, 2013 in Food & health, Hypertension, Toxins & Detoxification, Weight | Comments Off This time of year many people are considering making changes to their diets and even detoxing. Inevitably the subject of alkalizing comes up when ever someone asks me about improving their diet. This concept of balancing pH (acid/alkaline) is one that is confusing for most people. It’s one I get questions about all the time. Let me try to clear up the confusion …. Yin & Yang ...
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Eight Weight Loss Truths to help you succeed!

Posted by on Jan 1, 2013 in Weight | Comments Off If one of your goals for the coming year is to improve your health and drop a few unwanted pounds – you need to read this post! And if you’re sick and tired of trying the same weight reduction advice like I am without getting the results you want you will be pleasantly surprised after you read this. Best of all,  I think you’ll find you can easily implement many of these practical and most...
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Ten signals your liver is telling you you need to detox

Posted by on Nov 29, 2012 in Heart Health, Toxins & Detoxification, Weight | Comments Off Did you know that besides your heart, your liver is probably the  hardest working organ in your body? Your liver has a dual role – it is both the main organ for detoxing (which your body is naturally doing all the time) as well as a digestive organ.   These days many, many people have over burdened livers that are “speaking” to them and crying out for help!   Ten...
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What schools can do to help combat childhood obesity

Posted by on Aug 11, 2012 in Food & health, Weight | Comments Off I was recently interviewed by Zintro an on-line expert forum about childhood obesity. Here is an excerpt from that interview - One third of Americans are overweight and nearly a third of people under 20 are obese. We asked our Zintro experts to discuss the current leading ideas, approaches, or policies that are being developed to address the obesity epidemic in the US. Ann Baker, a holistic...
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What happens when you detox?

Posted by on Jul 27, 2012 in Toxins & Detoxification, Weight | Comments Off Are toxins keeping you fat, sick and tired? Detoxification or cleansing is very misunderstood. Cleansing allows the body to eliminate used wastes and toxins and helps improve our health as it removes harmful substances we in-hail, ingest and are exposed to every day. Most people think of a cleansing program or detox as a way to purge their system of the poor food they have eaten and think of this...
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What are the best foods for healthy weight loss?

Posted by on Jul 18, 2012 in Food & health, Weight | 4 comments My criteria for naturally healthy, weight loss foods: First it has to come from the good green earth! This means it is grown/raised with out chemicals in either the soil or in the food it eats.  I am talking about whole foods like fruits, vegetables nuts and seeds, and beans and legumes and naturally raised animal proteins, healthy fats and carbohydrates from vegetables, fruits. These are the...
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Should soda be banned?

Posted by on Jul 3, 2012 in Diabetes Related, Food & health, Weight | Comments Off Are you a soda drinker? With rates of obesity and diabetes in this country skyrocketing many in the health field are looking at lifestyle and dietary causes. And, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that eating junk food, fast food and drinking soda have had a huge impact on the decline in health and increase in disease. Even though most people know soda isn’t good for...
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Are you eating the RIGHT carbs????

Posted by on Apr 27, 2012 in Cancer, Diabetes Related, Food Intolerances, GUT Health, Weight | 2 comments You’re probably saying huh????..how can there be right and wrong carbohydrates? Most people think of  carbohydrates as bread, pasta, rice, crackers and maybe potatoes. But carbohydrates are found in many more foods than just grains. Fruits and vegetables also contain carbohydrates and even proteins ( including dairy products) contain a small amount of carbohydrate. Don’t get me wrong...
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Past “eating” mistakes can help you increase energy, reduce food cravings and jump start your metabolisim

Posted by on Apr 15, 2012 in Brain Health, Weight | 1 comment Making mistakes is part of life. My food mistakes have helped me learn which foods support my health goals and which foods don’t. By making the connection between the specific foods you eat and how these impact your mind, mood and body you can use this information to stop making your own food mistakes, like I have. Once you find the right foods this becomes a very powerful tool you can use to...
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