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Real Children’s Food Pyramids

Would you be surprised to learn that children actually choose real food when asked to design their own food pyramids? I posted the photo above on our Facebook page and asked if this is true of our reader’s children?  Many answered no!  See the comments. They asserted that their children would fill the pyramid with real, whole, nutrient dense foods.  So I asked parents to have their children design their own food pyramids. Instructions were to print out this pyramid that I created and to simply ask their children to illustrate and/or write the foods they most like to eat at the bottom. The second tier represents foods they like a…

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My Journey into Real Food

Another in our Nourished Families series! How lovely for me to read these words of appreciation from Renee Kohley, one of our supporters and the author of the testimonial below: “Hi Sandrine: I really wanted to share my story in blogger form to thank you and the Weston A. Price Foundation for educating me so…

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A Nutritionist’s Weight Loss Saga

My Personal Experience with Conventional Nutrition Education … Why I Made the Switch By Carla Hernandez, NTP Practicing as a Nutritional Therapist, spreading awareness about the powerful healing potential of a nutrient dense, whole foods diet, has always been my reason for entering this field, though the rewarding results from working with clients did not come…

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Would You Eat Your Placenta?

The Placenta.   Often called the tree of life, it is an increasingly popular organ for modern women to eat after childbirth, and some have made art with it. Pictured above is one mother’s Placenta Art. Following is a article Ozzie Ozkay-Villa wrote for Nourishing Our Children. Have you ever watched a dog or other family pet…

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How Do I know If My Raw Milk Source Is Safe?

Krista of MamaMuse writes …  My family has been drinking raw milk for more than 5 years. I weaned my first child on raw milk and drank it throughout my second pregnancy. We have never been slightly sick from the milk we got while we lived in Oregon including our own fresh backyard goat milk.…

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Breastfeeding Smoothie

My Breastfeeding Smoothie written by Katie Louderback We know how essential it is to nourish ourselves while breastfeeding. However the reality of mothering sometimes gets in the way of our best intentions.  We are often pulled away from meeting our own needs in order to respond to the needs of our babies and/or children.  As the…

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Reflections on Motherhood

Pictured above is my mother, Jacqueline, not long after my birthday/her labor day on July 16, 1965. I am her first born. Oprah Winfrey is quoted as having said, “Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.” So, what does make someone a mother?!  Nourish Integral to our cause is the word nourish.…

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Make a “Multigenerational Investment”

Meet Dana and be inspired.  Introduction: please provide an overview about you and your family: We are a family of 7, soon to be 10, as we are currently adopting 3 children from Haiti. I really want to glean all I can from this informative DVD to help heal any malnutrition in our adopted babies!…

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