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How do we nourish our babies?!

 We nourish them even before conception! Wearing both my Nourishing Our Children Executive and Creative Director hats, I approached Heather Dessinger about her ebook, Nourished Baby, in order to see if she was open to a collaborative redesign in order to restructure the layout for greater clarity and consistency. I also wanted to increase the overall sense of aesthetic by editing some of the existing photographs and adding more to illustrate the content. I hoped to include her book as one of the educational materials we offer the community. It was the first time since I launched our educational initiative in 2005 that I approached another author in this way.…

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What if the sun doesn’t cause skin cancer?

 ARTICLE BY GUEST AUTHOR – C. ANDI LOCKE MEARS  Summer is fast approaching. It is a time when I see fear rampant on the beach in the form of slathering chemicals on our children’s skin or covering them from head to toe. We don’t want them to get cancer from the sun, do we??  So we do our due diligence and cover ourselves and our children with whatever our conscience allows. But what if the sun really doesn’t cause skin cancer?   Oh, I know we’ve been told for years that the depletion of the ozone layer decreases our atmosphere’s natural protection from the sun’s supposedly “harmful” ultraviolet (UV) rays.…

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The Possible Gaps in GAPS™?

 Autism Awareness Month In honor of Autism Awareness Month, I am delighted to feature Julie Matthews, CNC, who has been a long time colleague and friend. Julie has been specializing in autism for over ten years.  She served as an advisor and volunteer presenter for Nourishing Our Children from it’s inception through 2008, and we’ve collaborated with her organization Nourishing Hope for Autism when featuring the movie Farmageddon in San Francisco.  Without further ado, let’s read from Julie: Introduction As a Certified Nutrition Consultant, a long time presenter and supporter of Nourishing Our Children, and member of the Weston A. Price Foundation, I’m excited to be able to share the topic…

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A child advocates for organic farming and reaches over a million people!

 Organic is too expensive. “You can either pay the farmer, or you can pay the hospital!” – Birke Baehr Dr. Weston A. Price encouraged us to teach, teach, teach … and it is never too young to start! Lucky, lucky me! I already have all 35 podcasts of the Healthy Life Summit so I can tell you about them in greater detail! I am listening to AnnMarie Micheals interview Birke Baehr, a 14 year old, who was named by treehugger.com as one of the 6 child environmentalist who are making a change in the world. His TEDx talk, presented when he was 11 years old, has been viewed over a…

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Attend a health summit … no travel involved!

 The Healthy Life Summit, which includes 35 podcasts focused on all aspects of health, starts this Sunday, March 24, 2013! It will stream live online for free however, you must subscribe. During the course of one week, 5 podcasts will be available for 24 hours at a time. If we are not available to listen to them, we can own the series to download to your computer, and we will also receive corresponding slideshows for each podcast!  For a limited time, we can save 75% to own the series. The pre-summit promotion ends on March 23, 2013. We can pre-order the summit download bundle of all the 35 podcasts plus all…

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Are we orthorexic?

 Orthorexia Noun |or·tho·rex·i·a| Orthorexia nervosa, also known as orthorexia, is not mentioned in the Diagnositic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but was first used by Dr. Steven Bratman to characterize people who develop an obsession with avoiding foods perceived to be unhealthy. Are those who seek the highest quality food orthorexic? Here is the explanation of each tier above, as is published on the Pasture Prime Family Farm’s website: American Grass-Fed-Association [AGA] – Certified Grass-Fed. Taking the USDA standards to a higher level. Grown and produced in the U.S.A. Grass fed from wean to harvest and never given antibiotics or hormones, certified by a third party audit and farm visit every year. Grass-Fed –  nothing…

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Podcast March 5, 2013

 Topics include pre-conception nutrition for mother and father, childbirth, breastfeeding, vaccines, childhood illnesses, child spacing, attachment parenting and more! I was asked to be interviewed with Sally Fallon Morell for the Food Integrity Now website. You can hear the recorded interview that Carol Grieve conducted, and/or read the following summation. Learn more about the Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care. Sally let us know that there are now 16,000 members of the Weston A. Price Foundation. Preconception: Most modern mothers who are planning to conceive are simply told to take prenatal vitamins, no other preparations are recommended. Traditional cultures engaged in specifically feeding for both parents for at least 6 month before conception. Sally mentioned…

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Chiropractic care is not just for back pain.

 Chiropractic care can be beneficial for babies, children as well as adults. Read this interview conducted by our guest author Tamara Mannelly of Oh Lardy. Tommy John is currently in his final year working towards his Doctor of Chiropractic degree at Life University. He is very passionate about chiropractic and the human body’s ability to heal itself.  He obtained his Master’s Degree in Health and Exercise Science from Furman University before playing professional baseball for a few years. He formerly owned and operated his own baseball instructional facility and is also a certified personal trainer and ARPWave therapist. You can follow Tommy on Facebook. Oh Lardy interviewed Tommy about 5 reasons why…

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Nutrient dense food on a tight budget

 Would you like to follow our recommend diet, but … the cost is of concern? Read this guest blog post from Millie Copper Mille’s book, Thrifty Food Plan Experience, is offered as part of The Art of Healing Extreme Digital Library Bundle! You will receive this book as a digital file in addition to 52 other items all for just under than 40.00!  I am excited to implement these cost savings strategies. See a preview. You may also purchase the book alone for 8.95. In early 2009, I purchased a copy of Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon. As I shared what I was reading with my husband we both thought it sounded great. The idea of eating…

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Is the pertussis vaccine causing the recent outbreaks?

 Leslie Manookian writes about whooping cough for Nourishing Our Children. In recent years the United States has experienced pertussis (whooping cough) outbreaks and epidemics in states across the nation. While the official advice of government, health care workers, and vaccine makers has been a resounding, “go get vaccinated or re-vaccinated”, is that really the best course of action for now and the future? To answer the question of whether pertussis vaccines were ever the best course of action, it is useful to examine their history. The whole-cell pertussis vaccine was declared effective in 1939. (Interestingly, autism was first documented in 1943.1) The whole cell pertussis vaccine was combined with diphtheria…

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