Archive for the 'digestive health' Category

If you have food allergies, particularly if you developed them later in life and are allergic to more than one food, chances are you also have leaky gut syndrome. If you can heal your leaky gut then you will be able to overcome your allergies as well.

What is leaky gut syndrome? When the intestinal lining [...]

The Master Cleanse is a lemon juice fast created, as far as I know, by Stanley Burroughs. You can read about it in his little book, The Master Cleanser.
You can also read about it on this site, which I highly recommend: Master Cleanse aka The Lemonade Diet.
One thing I’d like to say is that the [...]

As Scott mentioned in his comment to my first post in the Sunday sleep series, eating too close to bedtime encourages insomnia. I’d like to go into a little more detail about food and sleep, today.
Going to bed on a full stomach will certainly disrupt your sleep, as well as your digestion. Eating sweets just [...]

Ground flax seeds are a great nutritional supplement to most people’s diet. Flax oil is not.
The Good:

Flax is high in ALA, an essential fatty acid that has some health benefits.

Flax is high in protein

Flax is high in lignans, a phytonutrient that protects against breast cancer and other estrogen related cancers.

Eating ground flax seeds slows the [...]

We need to drink to stay alive. It’s even more important than eating, at least in terms of how often we need to drink to survive. What you drink really matters though, if you want to be healthy. North Americans are drinking more calories than ever before, which is adding to our weight problem. In [...]

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