The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen

The Environmental Working Group is a non-profit agency that funds research in environmental health.  Every year it posts a list of 12 vegetables and fruit that have a very high pesticide load.  This list can help health-conscious consumers choose food items carefully...
The Dirty Dozen

Your Daily Detox, Vol1 number 3

Castor oil packs are a classic Naturopathic tool to increase circulation and lymphatic flow, while decreasing congestion in organs and tissue.  To promote liver detoxification and bowel function use a castor oil pack over your entire abdomen nightly for at least 30...
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Your Daily Detox, Vol1 Number2

In our western culture, we eat primarily sweet and salty foods.  For millenia, Chinese medicine has recommended balancing all of the tastes – sweet, salty, pungent, sour and bitter.   Eating bitter or sour foods causes a completely different digestive enzyme...
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Your Daily Detox

We’re launching a series of health tips that will teach you how to promote detoxification on a daily basis. Click on the Daily Detox tag at “What’s Inside the Website” on the main page for the link to the Daily Detox articles. Here’s the...
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What you need to know about Vitamin D

Vitamin D is in the headlines frequently these days. Research over the last few decades has uncovered the critical role this vitamin plays in the prevention and treatment of many illnesses. From autism to depression, osteoporosis to cancer, vitamin D has created more...
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Vitamin D and your children

We recently posted a poll asking you how many IUs of Vitamin D a child under 12 should be taking daily. Several of your guessed the correct answer (as can be seen below), which is 400 IU per day.   Children between the ages of 2 and 12 can safely take 400 IU per day....

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