by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on April 22, 2013
On the Dr. Oz show last week, Dr. Oz shared two of his “best kept health secrets”. While I did not watch the show myself (I’ve only watched 2 of his shows ever), several readers emailed me about it and I confirmed the topic selection by checking his blog post of the same day.
Apparently, Dr. Oz is now a big fan of pumpkin seed oil.
In fact, he is so taken with this supposed “health secret” that he described pumpkin seed oil as being in the same league with coconut oil and olive oil.
Not sure what planet Dr. Oz is coming from with that statement, but he sure isn’t in Kansas anymore!
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by Konstantin Monastyrsky on April 21, 2013
Provided the opportunity, most adults will overeat, however unconsciously, to store energy as fat. Also, given a chance, most adults will stay put to preserve energy (stored as fat) rather than move around to waste it. In practical terms, these two intrinsic biological traits — storage and preservation of energy — mean that weight loss is alien to the nature’s normal order, and that weight gain is a norm, not an exception.
With that in mind — that most of us are genetically preprogrammed to be work-lazy and food-greedy, maintaining normal weight is a huge challenge for anyone, while losing weight can be a lifelong fight against human nature itself.
No wonder, then, why it is so hard to crack the code of the obesity enigma. Still, it can be done by following a set of the following common sense rules:
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on April 19, 2013
Swimmers ear, or otitis externa, is an infection in the canal between the outer ear and the eardrum. It is very painful and is usually triggered by water that enters the ear canal during bathing or swimming.
It can also be caused by cleaning the ear too vigorously or by an infected hair follicle.
Some people seem to be more prone to swimmers ear than others. In my own family, one of my children seems to be particularly susceptible to this type of infection after swimming while another experiences no problems at all even if swimming for the same length of time in the exact same place.
As a result, genetics seems to play a role in the predisposition to this type of infection, with the size of the ear canal possibly a contributing factor.
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on April 17, 2013
Those of us who have exclusively nursed a child know the heavy responsibility that comes with knowing that you are another human being’s sole source of nourishing sustenance.
I remember so well nursing my first son and worrying about what would happen if I was in a car wreck or got ill and was unable to nurse him for even a short period of time.
I never wanted a single drop of commercial formula to pass my baby’s lips even in a dire emergency!
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on April 17, 2013
Do you enjoy reading e-books as much as I do? If so, you are going to love the Village Green Network Spring E-Book bundle!
30 books for only $39 which is less than $1.50 per book. This is a $479 value at over 90% off!
I am thrilled to have my brand new e-book, Get Your Fats Straight, included as part of this special bundle. Many of you asked for it to be available in PDF, so I decided to include it in the Village Green Network Spring E-Book bundle so you could get the absolute best value possible.
By the way, this is the ONLY time it will be available in PDF format!
Here are just a few of the titles that are included in this special e-book bundle, which is available for the $39 price for one week only.
- DIY Natural Household Cleaners, by Matt and Betsy Jabs of diynatural.com
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- Get Your Fats Straight, by Sarah Pope of thehealthyhomeeconomist.com
- Nourished Baby (revised), by Heather Dessinger of mommypotamus.com
- Real Food Nutrition for KIDS, by Kristen Michaelis of foodrenegade.com
- Eat for Heat, by Matt Stone of 180degreehealth.com
- 70 Recipes for a Toxic Free Home, by Robin Konie of thankyourbody.com
- Grain Free Desserts, by Jennifer McGruther of nourishedkitchen.com
- And so many more ….
Click here to see all 30 books that are included in the e-book bundle with a brief description of each.
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Don’t forget – this special spring e-book bundle is only available for one week – through April 23, 2013.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on April 16, 2013
Amid the worrisome and growing problem of bacterial contamination of food, there is some good news.
Dairy products are some of the safest foods for consumers to eat.
The chart to the right from a report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest shows just how low the risk of foodborne illness in milk products is compared with other foods such as seafood and poultry.
Even produce carries a significantly higher risk for foodborne illness than dairy and this includes dairy that is completely unprocessed and consumed fresh from the farm.
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by Fitness Editor Paula Jager, CSCS Owner of Crossfit Jaguar on April 15, 2013
Make no bones about it—to be your healthiest, fittest and looking and feeling your best you need to exercise—in some form or fashion.
What you are training for will to a large degree determine your exercise program. Every program no matter the goal or sport must have an element of strength training and metabolic conditioning. We throw into the equation flexibility and mobility work to maintain joint health, range of motion and stress reduction. These basic components present will make any person/athlete better prepared for their activities of daily living or sport.
Sounds simple, doesn’t it?
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by Konstantin Monastyrsky on April 14, 2013
Your body casually switches from one metabolic state to another between meals, during intentional or accidental starvation, and under extreme workload or stress. This metabolic duality is very much like a hybrid engine – the moment it runs out of electricity (foods in humans), it switches over to gasoline (fat in humans), and keeps running, running, and running. In this respect, our unique physiological ability to function without food for a long while is the foundation of life itself. Alas, it also makes us fat.
These two hybrid-like states are called, respectively, anabolic and catabolic metabolism. From a weight loss perspective, anabolic metabolism drives the obesity epidemic while the catabolic enables weight loss. If that’s what you are after, you really want to befriend catabolic metabolism.
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by Kaayla T. Daniel PhD, The Naughty Nutritionist on April 12, 2013
by Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, The Naughty Nutritionist
Eden Foods bills itself as the “oldest natural and organic food company in America” and is best known for its EdenSoy line of organic soy milk.
Most of Eden’s products are organic and nearly all are vegan.
It’s a very familiar brand in health food stores and marketing studies have shown it to be a favorite of female and liberal customers.
These customers, to put it mildly, are not pleased at the news that Eden hired the Thomas More Law Center to file a lawsuit against Kathleen Sibelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, and other government parties, associated with the Obama administration’s rule on contraception.
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by Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist on April 12, 2013
Last week, I had the opportunity to chat about my recently released eBook Get Your Fats Straight with Wardee Harmon of the popular Know Your Food podcast.
I thoroughly enjoyed Wardee’s easygoing, friendly interviewing style as we talked about my junk food eating childhood and background/initiation as a Real Food activist.
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