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QUIZ: What are the Best Cooking Oils for Long Life?

 Rising chronic disease is a global pandemic. What is causing the continuous increase in illness, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes? Could the refined oils we eat be a cause of disease? Do you trust your life and your family's health to the global food industry? Is money and selfish interest driving their marketing worldwide? We have the power to learn, to understand, and to make our own healthy choices. The Takeaway: Choosing your FAT is Important, ESPECIALLY for the brain: The ...
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Addicted to coffee? This healthy brew will protect your Kidney Jing!

 Coffee is the biggest culprit that depletes Kidneys and Adrenals, and 85% of Americans use caffeine daily. In fact, we drink 400 million cups of Joe every day. Our coffee obsession is a roaring $30 billion industry! However, if you're an independent soul like me that wants to be truly healthy, here's a delicious alternative. I'll cut to the chase: Coffee is addictive. It slowly depletes the kidney energy, according to Chinese Medicine, which means it's VERY bad news for your creativity, long ...
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Xylitol, NOT a low calorie sweetener!

 By Jane Barthelemy. Is Xylitol a healthy sweetener? Touted as a safe sugar substitute for diabetics in snacks, chewing gum, and baking, Xylitol is NOT the low-calorie sweetener it's cracked up to be. Just look at the nutrition label and you'll see it's loaded with calories and carbs. I don't accept that stripping birch bark and thus killing the tree is sustainable or earth-friendly. How is Xylitol produced? How does it affect the body? You deserve to know the truth to make an informed choice. ...
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What Favorite Foods Convert to SUGAR in Your Blood?

 Shall we do some MYTH BUSTING? We all know sugar is BAD. And whole foods are GOOD. Yep, we've got that. But WHY do many people eat a whole food diet but still end up with diabetes and heart disease? Maybe it's not BAD vs. GOOD foods. Maybe it's that HIGH-CARB WHOLE FOODS CONVERT immediately to sugar in the body? AHA!! These foods may not TASTE sweet, but too much of them CAUSES DISEASE because they IMMEDIATELY become SUGAR. This means we have to re-think the whole food pyramid! The biggest ...
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Stop a Panic Attack Fast: Managing Transformational Stress

 What's a Panic Attack? A panic attack is an episode of paralyzing fear triggered by something small and seemingly insignificant. The average attack lasts about five to ten minutes. A panic attack often seems to begin abruptly and may include rapid heartbeat, chest constriction, difficulty breathing, dizziness, tingling, and anxiety. However, the surging chemicals of panic in your body have been years in the making before they manifest, because their deeper emotional roots may be in a distant ...
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How Healthy is Your Breakfast Cereal?

 A healthy breakfast means a bowl of cereal with milk and sugar. Right? Isn't this an American tradition? Nope. It’s actually a very recent marketing invention. A tiny mistake in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1870 changed the face of breakfast forever. Harvey Kellogg (recognize the name?) was the director of a popular health retreat. Kellogg was said to treat his guests with many bizarre experiments for health improvement. One of his invention was a whole grain corn breakfast cereal ...
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Avoid Maple Syrup – Almost 100% sugar!

 We LOVE to drizzle maple syrup! We think it's pure sap of maple trees - Right?  Uh Oh!  Sorry to bring sad news! Maple syrup is highly processed containing 50% glucose, 50% fructose. It's almost 100% sugar! WHAT!?!?  Yes! Maple syrup will acidify your body pH and spike blood glucose like sugar. Charts below show high sugar, high calories and carbs! Read the LABEL! As usual, the truth is in the details. This won't be my most popular post. Ha Ha! Here goes! Here's the ELEPHANT in the ...
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EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique: Tapping to Dissolve Negative Feelings Fast

 Livid ANGER? Petrifying FEAR? Gut-wrenching GRIEF? Powerful emotions are a part of our human journey. When an emotion takes HOLD of you, you are not a victim of something outside you. You are a victim of your own REACTIONS. And your REACTIONS are 100% within your power to control. Yes, maybe you need a lawyer, but first better get control of YOURSELF... Here's how... EFT is a practical tool to reduce stress in minutes. Emotional Freedom Technique WORKS! Whether you’re dealing with a ...
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Drinking Fluoridated Water? Check your USA city!

 Over two-thirds of US cities add fluoride chemical to drinking water - Click here to find your state and city.  Fluoride is proven to damage the brain and lower IQ in childhood development.  Despite ealier claims that fluoride lowers cavities, new research by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ National Toxicology Program AND MANY OTHERS, indicate that fluoride should be “presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to humans." Fluoride is a potent neuro-to...
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Time for a New Food Pyramid?

 What's the BEST diet for ALL humans? Are we all different? Or should we LISTEN to the body, to discover what it needs every day? Should we all jump on the most recent diet craze? How about the latest US Food Pyramid? Is a Vegan diet healthy, or will it make you weak? Should we consider the Paleo Diet? Or is it Vegetarian best with eggs and dairy? What percentage of your food should be leafy green veggies? How much fat is best? How much meat should we eat if any? What about organic ...
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Dark Sprouted Rice, Superior Nutrition! It’s all about the MINERALS!

 Rice is the main food for 2/3 of the world. Which kind is best?  Check out this nutrition comparison!  It's all about minerals lost in processing white rice. It turns out dark red and black rice are not only tastier, they also provide complete minerals. The only requirement is that rice must be properly cultivated, hulled, soaked, and sprouted. Better quality precision hulling machines don't strip away the dark coating containing the nutrients. Good-bye disease! Red Rice has 5x the ...
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The BIG Blind Spot – What is the top carcinogenic food worldwide?

 A great big blind spot worldwide is carcinogenic cooking oils: Soybean, Corn, Canola, Cottonseed, Safflower, Grapeseed, Sunflower, Rice Bran, and Peanut oil. These toxic seed oils, sometimes innocently marketed as "vegetable" or "refined oils", are some of the most poisonous ingredients in the modern human diet, increasing your risk of Cancer, Diabetes, and Heart Disease. The problem is, these inexpensive oils are used in almost all restaurants and prepared foods, but few people understand the ...
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Top Ten Recipes for Fermented Foods

 One of the easiest and most economical ways to boost your health is FERMENTING! In stressful times when your digestion is under attack from processed food, undisclosed additives, and GMO's, these old-fashioned fermented foods like sauerkraut and yogurt can offer your gut a life-saving break. Fermented foods are high in fiber. They contain more beneficial bacteria than most probiotic supplements, and they're cheaper than store-bought pills. Make them easily in a variety of flavors, just 2 ...
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Gender Dysphoria Caused by Pesticides?

 Three critical articles crossed my desk this week and made a synapse connection. ZAP! It doesn’t take a genius to see that gender identity confusion and chemical exposure are two growing issues for our society today. Are these two issues interrelated? I know that industrial chemicals disrupt our digestion, our nutrition, emotional state, microbiome, and ALL body functions. It could be more than the new pharma gender benders.  Could growing gender confusion in teenagers be related to ...
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6 Ways to Squeeze More Nutrition Out of Your Food Dollar

 This won't be my most popular post. However it might revolutionize your health while saving you money! Ten years ago I suffered a terrible loss, and the emotional stress led to total digestive collapse. I'll save you the details, except to say I couldn't digest anything anymore. All the food I ate went straight through me, like into a black hole. I became emaciated, thin, and exhausted for months. Then a miracle happened. I met Will, a 6' 6" weight lifter who enjoyed clean food. It ...
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Best Depression Med? 100% Chocolate!

 Pure 100% chocolate is my favorite food in the world. And for good reason. Pure unsweetened cacao gives me a lift! It is higher in antioxidants than grapes, blueberries, or green tea. Maybe that’s why ancient cultures called it “Food of the Gods.” Who needs meds when we have the REAL STUFF? But there's a catch! If it has sugar added, it's partly toxic. Why ruin the healthiest food by mixing it with the most unhealthy toxin? Sugar acidifies the body and causes inflammation. Cacao, when ...
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Turmeric: Huge Health Benefits? or Hype?

 Turmeric is all the rage. It's in everything from smoothies to chai, curries, and of course Golden Milk. Turmeric is packed with earthy, pungent flavor. This bitter, yellow, peppery root contains the active ingredient curcumin which can support health in many ways. I believe perhaps the modern world is finally rediscovering the value of this plant, used for thousands of years in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine. Turmeric as an herb stimulates blood circulation. It is a powerful anti-inflamma...
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How NOT to Surf the Web – Finding TRUTH on the Internet in 2024

 Happy New Year! Top internet tools to find to find TRUTH in 2024. Major predictions include: AI expansion, crazy Election on Social Media, Web 3, and "Spatial Internet of Bodies" linking humans to the web (which will challenge everything we know about how to communicate, interact, and control society). As expected, the battle between AI, humans, and the digitized human body WBAN Network will accelerate this year in profound ways.  Suggested DO's and DON'Ts for Finding True Knowledge on ...
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VIDEO: How to Detox & Balance Your Microbiome Consciously

 How does our self-awareness and self-love affect our microbiome? Aha! That's the BIG question. This video is a guided meditation to reset the gut-brain axis and balance the microbiome. In this fast-changing world, we need a smart, multi-dimensional approach to health. Your microbiome is the root of your immune system. It rules your digestion, and therefore your nourishment. That means this tiny environment of bugs effectively determines our health and future happiness! Wow! A new ...
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Vegetable Oils: Good, Bad and Deadly

 Have you ever wondered what's at the root of our world cancer epidemic? Well, the answer is easy to sleuth out. Just look at what's changed in our diet. Disease always has MANY contributing factors. The BIG ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM we're focusing on is our modern synthetic vegetable oils. Does anyone still remember before the 1950’s, butter and lard were the go-to cooking fats in America. Our human diet has changed radically in the past 100 years, not always for the best. Now, GMO vegetable oils ...
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