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Healthier Snack Choices for Kids

by Dawn Lorenz 4 Comments

Healthier Snack Choices

Healthier Snack Choices: I think that we can all agree that whole, unprocessed food is the best option at any given time. However, for some people, sometimes it’s hard to incorporate these whole foods for each snack of the day, while juggling the rest of our daily lives. There is a calling for ‘better than’…

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Filed Under: Food, Healthy Meals Tagged With: children, food, Healthy Snacks, Organic Mattress

Alkaline Kids: How pH Affects Overall Health

by Dawn Lorenz 13 Comments

Alkaline Kids

Yesterday, I took my two oldest children to their well visit. As part of the exam, the pediatrician has them each pee in a cup to test for diabetes, urethritis and kidney health. After reading the stick from Lila’s urine, the pediatrician comes back and asks me if I have Lila drinking alkaline water, to which I reply…

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Filed Under: Food, Healthy Meals, Kids' Health, organic Tagged With: alkaline, children, healthy foods

Healthy Muffins Kids Will Love

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I love muffins, but I don’t love that they often contain preservatives and a massive amount of sugar. Most recipes call for at least a cup and a half of cane sugar and the standard medium size muffin has approximately 37 grams of sugar. That’s insane, especially when a human should really only consume 8 grams per day….

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Why Your Family Should Be Eating Flaxseed

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Getting some extra nutrition and fiber into your snacks and meals is easy if you know what to put where. In this case, the WHAT is FLAXSEED, and the WHERE is just about anywhere! The health benefits of flaxseed are numerous. The nutrients in flaxseed fight cholesterol, bone loss, diabetes, heart disease, excess fat, inflammation, constipation,…

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Getting Kids Into Veggies

by Dawn Lorenz 1 Comment

Lips sealed, arms crossed, “I don’t like this.” Meanwhile, he’s never even tried it before. Sound familiar? All of my kids love fruit and they each have a few select vegetables that they will ask for, but none of them willingly eat a wide variety of vegetables. Being that I want them to get the nutrients…

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Filed Under: Food, Healthy Meals, Recipes, Veggie Tricks Tagged With: Family, food, Healthy Meals, Kids, Vegetables

The Truth About Your Orange Juice

by Dawn Lorenz 2 Comments

Millions of Americans start their day off with a glass of orange juice with breakfast. Sounds simple enough; technically, orange juice has one ingredient – oranges, right? Right – if you make it yourself (which is really quite simple). BUT if you are buying it, that’s an orange of a different color (sorry, I just…

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Filed Under: Food, Toxic Chemicals in Food Tagged With: coca-cola, orange juice

Depriving Kids of Junk Versus Feeding Them It for Convenience

by Dawn Lorenz 2 Comments

“These days, being a ‘healthy eater’ is to be abnormal. To feed your kids healthy food is to be a mother who is depriving her kids of their childhood. It is convenient to give kids what one is certain they will eat instead of what they should eat.” ~ Wendy of RNK Africa When I…

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Lead in Green Tea; Know Where Yours Comes From

by Dawn Lorenz 4 Comments

Green Tea  – so simple, yet so complex. Light in flavor and so full of health benefits; it should be a staple in every household. Because it’s full of antioxidants called catechin, green tea is beneficial for so many aspects of the human body. It’s great for detoxing, preventing cell damage, improving blood flow, lowering cholesterol and…

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Use Those Garlic and Onion Skins!

by Dawn Lorenz 57 Comments

onion skins

Perhaps the most tossed aside nutrient dense foods are the skins of onions and garlic. Because of their dryness and texture, many people assume that they cannot be eaten and never stop to realize just how nutritious they are. The reality is, that just like most fruits and vegetables, the skins hold more nutrients and…

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Filed Under: Food, Natural Remedies Tagged With: garlic, natural cures, onions

Bringing Tradition Back to Food

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With Thanksgiving approaching, families find themselves eating foods more traditionally cooked.  Whole turkeys are being roasted, soups are made from the stocks of bone broth leftover from the feast, and foods are being prepared and eaten whole, as opposed to being served in parts. Nutritionally, eating whole foods is extremely important, as opposed to the…

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