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Want to Change Your Health Habits but Overwhelmed with Where to Start?

2/10/2021

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Here are five simple things you can start today to feel and look better!

1- Eat Real Food- Eat food in its natural state. Try shopping around the perimeter of grocery stores and eating more raw fruits and veggies. Choose foods that represent all the colors of the rainbow to widen your intake of nutrients and vitamins. 

2- Minimize Processed Foods- This means anything that comes in a package or bag. The longer the shelf life of what you eat, the shorter yours will be. 

3- Eat Healthy Fats- Upgrade your choice of oil from canola, vegetable, corn, soybean and margarine to avocado, coconut, olive oil and butter. Fill your diet with nuts, seeds, olives and salmon. 

4- Eat with Friends- Eating with friends improves digestion by slowing down your eating, stimulating more stomach acid to fully digest your food,  increased enjoyment and savoring of your meal and decreasing your stress. Turn off the tv, phones and avoid reading or scrolling while you eat. 

5- Drink More Water- Drink half your body weight in ounces of water (not tea, juice or other liquids, just water). If drinking water is difficult for you, add doTERRA citrus essential oils to flavor your water and ease your toxin load.  
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Corn Syrup- A Hidden Imposter

10/2/2020

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Corn syrup is a cheap food filler that is found is most processed foods. It is produced from corn that is likely sprayed and GMO and is a sign of very poor quality of food. Our bodies aren't able to process corn syrup in the way we typically metabolize food. It bypasses the pancreas and goes straight to the liver where it is stored as fat. So why does that matter? This triggers the production of cholesterol which can contribute to leaky gut and increased inflammation. 
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Corn syrup increases: 
  • risk of insulin resistance
  • triglycerides
  • food cravings
  • risk of fatty liver disease

This is an ingredient that I am adamant about staying out of my diet and life! If I do accidentally eat something with corn syrup, I notice that I have cravings for sugar for the next several days and have terrible irritability. 

This imposter is hiding is so many foods that are in everyone's cupboard: 
  • cool whip
  • ketchup
  • salad dressings
  • mayo
  • barbeque sauce
  • marshmallows
  • cereals
  • bread
  • soda
  • juice
  • cough syrups
  • crackers
  • pretzels
  • cottage cheese
  • yogurt
  • ice cream
  • pickles
  • baked beans
  • most packaged and processed foods

If you are going to make one change to have a healthier diet, this is the most important- eliminate corn syrup! It's not hard to do. Just start reading labels to become aware of where it's hiding and then look on the shelf next to the product. There is generally another brand that doesn't have corn syrup in it. Do yourself and your family a favor by taking the steps to live a corn syrup free life! They will thank you for it!!


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Iron...How do I Know if I'm Low?

5/1/2020

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I've had several women in the last few months come to me with complaints of low iron. Many of them didn't know their iron was low until they did a blood test. In America, 20% of women are iron deficient. 

What are the symptoms of low iron?
1- Fatigue
2- Pale skin
3- Dizziness, lightheaded, weakness
4- Fast heart rate, chest pain
5- Headaches
6- Stomach pain
7- Joint pain
8-Craving to eat items that aren't food- ice, dirt, or clay


Raising iron levels through supplementation: 
1- Always get a blood test before starting supplementing
2- Ferrous gluconate form is gentle on the bowels
3- Take vitamin C with iron supplement to increase absorption

Raising iron levels through diet: 
1- Beef
2- Liver
3- Turkey
4- Chicken
6- Fish
7- Spinach
8- Pumpkin and sunflower seeds
9-Firm tofu
10- Beans and lentils


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