All posts by Carmen

  • Serving Size Suggestions – Guesstimating?

    Not sure what constitutes a serving size? Super sized servings have practically become the norm these days. However, when real food is eaten, it takes a lot less real food to feel satisfied than it does processed...

    • Posted June 8, 2010
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  • Yo-yo Dieting? The Ups and Downs

    Ann Louise Gittleman, author of bestselling Fat Flush Plan refers to yo-yo dieting as a schizophrenic eating habit – Scientists have referred to it as the yo-yo syndrome. Syndrome or schizophrenia, it is not healthy and can...

    • Posted June 1, 2010
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  • Compost Without the Price Tag

    Volunteering at the L.A. Arboretum has opened up a whole new world for me – it has taught me to think outside the box and the bin. In learning to garden by way of permaculture, I went...

    • Posted May 24, 2010
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  • Live Long & Lean with A Clean Liver

    DISEASE DOESN’T JUST HAPPEN OVERNIGHT! As my former employer Dr. Richard Schulze states, heart disease, cancers, most all diseases develop months, even years after your liver failed to keep your blood clean. Having a clean liver can...

    • Posted May 17, 2010
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  • Do Happy People & Optimist Live Longer?

    According to Dr. Mercola at Mercola.com, the benefits of laughing include: • Relaxation and reduction in muscle tension. • Lowered production of stress hormones. • Improved immune system function. • Reduction in blood pressure. • Clearing the...

    • Posted May 12, 2010
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  • INCREASE IN OBESITY = INCREASE IN DISEASE = INCREASE IN…

    PHARMACEUTICALS… and so the vicious cycle go! In May 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that overweight and obese individuals are at an increased risk for many diseases and health conditions, some include: Hypertension...

    • Posted May 3, 2010
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  • ABC’s of Health

    Losing my father in 1973 and my mother in 2004 has given me a passion and purpose to help prevent disease and needless suffering on myself and others for nearly two decades now. I am mostly self-taught,...

    • Posted April 30, 2010
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  • Here a snack, there a snack, every where a snack snack…

    Do you know what ingredients lurk in your favorite snacks and foods? The list is long and their consequences are many – for time sake, I will cover 3 common so-called ingredients. The Oh-h-h McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets...

    • Posted April 26, 2010
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  • KFC… Fried Chicken to Cure Cancer?

    Susan G. Komen and KFC have joined forces in raising money to “find a cure.” Enough with “the cure!”  – how about prevention and/or showing us where the billions of dollars are going? Buy a breast and...

    • Posted April 23, 2010
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  • SEASONALE… a not-so-healthy Birth Control Pill

    Seasonale is a birth control pill that results in women having only 4 periods per year. On the surface, it sounds great! I have to admit, I took the pill for 10 years myself – it came...

    • Posted April 19, 2010
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