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Activism Healthy Living Real Food Reviews

WALL.E: A Bleak Picture Of The Future – Or A Clear Reflection Of The Present?

WARNING: contains spoilers. Last evening we saw Pixar’s latest offering of WALL.E at our local movie theatre. I had little idea what was about to play itself out on the screen before me. As the movie started, I sat in spellbound dismay at the unfortunate coincidences shown to our present-day situation here on Planet Earth. […]

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Healthy Living Kids & Family Real Food

Meals For Children – Restaurants And School Lunches Are Lacking In Nutrition

What’s for lunch? We ask this question every day, and it becomes challenging at each and every meal to come up with something nutritious and interesting to eat. Think about what it must be like to serve meals to kids every day of the week and how difficult to come up with foods that help […]

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Healthy Living Kids & Family Real Food

Nutritional Wellness For Families

It’s tough to come up with new ideas for healthy eating each and every day. People’s schedules are busy from the moment they awake until the end of the day. By the time we arrive home from work or school, most of us are too tired and worn out to want to prepare a good, […]

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Healthy Living Real Food

Fat Free, Low-Fat, And Non-Fat Do Not Equal Health

Consumers, read your labels! I just heard yet another story about people in an office telling each other a package of Red Vines was fine to eat because the label read, “fat-free”. Just read the nutritional information on any package that says “low-fat”, “fat free”, or “non-fat” and you will likely find that the amount […]

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Alternative Medicine Healthy Living

Detoxify Your Body From The Outside

The practice of detoxifying is becoming more and more common, and doing it for the sake of improvement in overall health is something that has reached new heights of visibility in many respects – especially to those who may previously have known very little to nothing at all about the subject. In health food stores […]

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Activism Healthy Living Real Food

Why Meat Gets The Heat

Since the dawn of humanity, people have eaten meat for food and it has consistently remained a primary source of protein. In recent years, we have witnessed a monumental shift from diets primarily rooted in meat-eating habits to those of vegetarian and vegan. Health rhetoric, news, and medical reports continually advocate the superiority of vegetarian […]

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Healthy Living Real Food

Malnutrition And Obesity – Why America Has Both Of These Problems In Spades

What do malnutrition and obesity have in common? A lot, actually. It may come as a huge surprise, but the main reason obese individuals and those who fall into the “skinny as a rail” category are similar is because both of these body types are failing to receive the nutrition they desperately need – plain […]

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Healthy Living Raw Dairy Real Food

All Probiotics Are NOT Created Equal

If you’re looking to be healthier and avoid the doctor’s office, eat foods naturally rich in probiotics like raw dairy such as fermented vegetables, milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, sour cream and kefir. It may also be important to find a good daily probiotic supplement to take if you have had health challenges for sometime and/or […]

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Healthy Living Real Food

The Workplace Blues And Sedentary Lifestyles

Are you feeling overworked and underpaid? Tired, run-down, and short on energy? Short on time for things that really matter to you? You are not alone. Millions of people who comprise the workforce in America are working hard, working a lot of overtime, and the overall health condition is suffering greatly for it. The culture […]

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Healthy Living Real Food

The Connection Between Raw Foods and A Healthy Immune System

Our immune systems and our bodies are becoming increasingly compromised and weakened. Why? There are many theories and causes. One reason why we hear about outbreaks in the news media is because the average American’s immune system is so weak that many foreign bacteria we come into contact with have the potential to cause a […]