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To Mix or Vitamix?

Blending, juicing, and more but what is the best way to optimize your nutrition? There are a lot of options available and there are a lot of misconceptions as well and I’d like to got through some of them.

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Nutrition Don Thompson Nutrition Don Thompson

Winter Wellness Wisdom

Many people diffuse essential oils to help with the immune system and this is a great idea. My favorites are some sort of Thieves/On Guard or any other brand with the same ingredients.

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What Is Nutritional Medicine?

The practice of nutritional medicine includes several main components, the relative importance of which varies from one patient to another.

For most patients, nutritional therapy starts with “cleaning up the diet” by emphasizing a wide variety of whole, unprocessed foods and minimizing intake of refined sugars, other refined carbohydrates, trans fatty acids, food additives, and other undesirable constituents of a typical Western diet.

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Not all salt is created equal. Here's why:

Table salt is officially not cool. Along with evidence that shows the added iodine in the salt supply could precipitate thyroid problems (the very thing it was put there to prevent), it is also higher in sodium that other, more natural, sea salts.

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Corn 101: A Little About The Not So Cool Side Of Corn

Corn is one of the number one crops in the U.S. But, did you know that genetically modified corn is made by joining together parts of viruses (promoter) and other infectious genetic parasites (plasmids and transposons) that spread antibiotic and multiple drug resistance genes via a process termed Horizontal Gene Transfer (You really don't want to know the specific pathogens on this one. It's super gross).

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