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Cravings: Follow your child’s lead.

 One of our community members shared this photo and asked the following question: “My 3.5 year old son insists on putting this much butter on each tiny cracker I give him. When I turn away for a second, he will also try to eat spoonfuls of butter on its own. It’s organic and grass-fed (although…

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New Year 2013 Promotion

 New Year Promotion! New is the operative word. We have newly revised and brand new educational materials we want you to have in order to learn and teach! What’s new? A brand new Nourishing Our Children ebook and a revised version of Nourished Baby by Mommypotamus. A Food Pyramid Comparison Chart that proved to be the most popular item at the Wise Traditions Conference in 2012. A newly revised PowerPoint and Study Guide. The promotion is a 25% to 40% reduction in our usual donation request! It ends February 1, 2012. http://www.nourishingourchildren.org/New-Year-2013.html PowerPoint The last time I revised our PowerPoint was in 2007 and we called it the 2008 version.…

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2012 In Review

 A few highlights: We were at the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Annual Wise Traditions Conference for the ninth consecutive year! We produced “Spoken Glass” bottles and a butter dish. See the colored bottles. We grew to over 16,600 Facebook followers – an increase of 6,600 from last year at this time. I created the Nutritional Wisdom Book Club on Facebook which now has over 1,700 members. We read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston A. Price this year, as well as Deep Nutrition, The Coconut Miracle and are currently on Wheat Belly. Educational Materials – I revised our PowerPoint, Study Guide, and created a brand new ebook. I revised the…

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Circumcision: A Very Personal Choice

 Sandrine’s Introduction I am in a weekly Nonviolent Communication practice group with Mark, our guest author, and offered to have him share his experience of circumcision on our blog. This is a topic we haven’t discussed in our community yet, and I anticipate it may be controversial. I was raised in a Jewish home, and…

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Reverse The Trend

 The trend to physical degeneration is reversible, and in this case, even with only implementing some of the dietary recommendations we make! So far, these 2 girls have wider faces and palates than their parents. They also have no dental decay and perfect vision, unlike their parents. Click on each image to see a larger…

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Sally Fallon Morell on Breastfeeding

 Sally Fallon Morell and Thomas S. Cowan, MD have written a new book focused on how to nourish our children! The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care. Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Preparing for your Baby Chapter 2: Fetal Development Chapter 3: A Healthy Pregnancy Chapter 4: Your Baby is Born Chapter 5:…

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Should We Avoid Fish Because of Mercury?

 Guest Author Raine Saunders Did you know there is an important trace mineral in fish that helps offset the mercury content you absorb when you eat it? For the last several decades, many health and medical sources have recommended limiting consumption of fish due to mercury content. Mercury is a heavy metal, and when it…

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