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How to Lose that Fatback in a Hurry

by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on January 27, 2012

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By Fitness Editor Paula Jager, CSCS

Seriously ladies (and gentlemen if you’re reading) are you really going to tell me the woman on the left looks better than the one on the right? If so you either need to go to confession or you’re really in denial. Don’t get me wrong I love fatback—in my turnip greens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Skip That Surgery: Most Wisdom Tooth Extractions Unnecessary

by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on January 26, 2012

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Over Spring Break during my senior year in college, I had all four of my wisdom teeth surgically extracted like just about everyone else I knew my age.  Needless to say, I spent most of  my vacation on the living room couch with my mouth loaded with gauze!

Prior to surgery, were my wisdom teeth infected or painful in any way?

No.

Were they causing any sort of problems for me whatsoever?

No.

Then why in the world did I have them out you might ask?

Good question!

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Reducing Exposure to Dirty Electricity

January 25, 2012

Electricity was originally intended as a “clean” and safe source of power for homes and businesses through standard usage of the steady electrical frequency of 60 oscillations per second, or 60 Hertz (Hz). Modern energy efficient devices, electronics, and other reasons such as earth currents can cause significant deviance from the 60 Hz frequency, however, [...]

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Video: How to Cook Oatmeal (the RIGHT way)

January 23, 2012

Do you eat oatmeal out of convenient, ready to use packets thinking this is a healthy start to the day? Reality Check: Ripping open a package of instant oatmeal, pouring it in a mug with some water and nuking it in the microwave for a couple minutes is NOT a nourishing breakfast! Don’t get me [...]

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Monday Mania 1/23/2012

January 22, 2012

Welcome to Monday Mania, a health and wellness carnival where Real Foodies who blog come together to link up their popular posts. These posts might be Real Food recipes, Book Reviews, Natural Remedies, or Green Home Tips. They might even be a blogger’s take on a media health report, a videoblog, podcast, or an exciting giveaway! [...]

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Preemie Dies After 9 Vax in One Day

January 20, 2012

If you’ve ever doubted whether many pediatricians are really just drug reps wearing white coats, you won’t anymore after reading this story. Baby Stacy and her twin sister Lesly were born one month premature by C-Section.  Stacy needed to be resuscitated after birth and she and her sister spent four days in an incubator. Stacy’s [...]

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Studies Suggest Low Salt Diets Are Deadly

January 19, 2012

“Mankind can live without gold … but not without Salt.”   -  Cassiodorus, Roman statesman, circa 500 AD The Feds are at it again.  This time, if they have their way, the amount of salt in food will soon become highly restricted, perhaps the modern manifestation of the ancient salt routes, which during the Dark and [...]

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Coconut and Almond Milk in Cartons Not a Healthy Buy

January 17, 2012

Organic coconut milk and almond milk are common purchases at the health food store by those with dairy allergies.  Usually, these people are savvy consumers who know enough nutritionally to avoid soy milk with its endocrine disrupting isoflavones and gastric inflaming phytates.  Rice milk is also steadily declining in popularity as it is really not [...]

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Olympians Warned Not To Eat Liver

January 16, 2012

With the 2012 London Olympics just around the corner, the spotlight turns once again to the diet of the hundreds of elite athletes preparing to arrive in Europe to complete their training before the Summer Games begin. The latest warning from the United Kingdom Anti-Doping Association is to avoid liver which can increase the odds [...]

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Monday Mania 1/16/2012

January 15, 2012

Welcome to Monday Mania, a health and wellness carnival where Real Foodies who blog come together to link up their popular posts. These posts might be Real Food recipes, Book Reviews, Natural Remedies, or Green Home Tips. They might even be a blogger’s take on a media health report, a videoblog, podcast, or an exciting giveaway! [...]

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