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Stick Figured Sugared Up Kids… Uh oh…

Do you know families who have children who are stick figured looking kids? I would assume so, children often have such high metabolism that they appear to be skin and bones. The funny thing about this, is that it really seems to come to portions than anything else when you look at kids body shapes. First off, 99% of children walking around under the age of 14, have a ridiculous metabolism. Even the kid apparently carrying around an extra 30 lbs. So why, oh why… Should we care what a kid eats? Its all about fat anyways, right? Do some […]

Putting it all together – part 2

I wrote a daily sprout a week or so ago about this idea of putting it all together in terms of health. The major concept was that each of the 5 essentials of health are important, and necessary in the pursuit of health. What brought this on was my focus on getting right with my diet and exercise and neglecting my mind/stress, and detoxifying (nervous system health is the one I haven’t let slip, as it is the most important to have right to ensure the others can be as effective as possible). I realized that I mentioned those 5 […]

Caffeine – Coffee and Energy Drinks

Don’t be addicted. Utilize it at times, but don’t be addicted. It is interesting when we consider the argument has been running strong even among the alternative health leaders for years now. Coffee – is it good or is it bad. I believe there is good to be found in coffee. To be found in small amounts of naturally occurring caffeine. Which then leads me to believe that caffeine in general, at lower levels is good. But as Dr. Ben Lerner once said, “you don’t want to have to drink a cup of coffee just to get back to tired”. […]

Girl Power – The Like a Girl promo, and what it means for health

Exercise is an integral part of health. We were made to move. Made to get up and run, to toil in the fields as it were, pulling, dragging, carrying, lifting and more. We hear this all the time, but I don’t know how much we apply it to ourselves. How much we apply it to our kids, to our parents and everyone else for that matter. I am actually amazed at the number of people that can hear these statements, and somehow think it doesn’t apply to them. I find that this seems to hold true for more women […]

Raising Healthy (Eating) Kids

Raising healthy kids is a great effort, and a great responsibility, and a great value at the end of the day. We have been blessed with healthy kids. But the blessing comes from the fact that we have worked our butts off, and the reward has been healthy kids. Blessed that what we thought would work, has worked. In my practice, I have blessed with endless stories of children with croup who have been healed, children with asthma, who no longer have asthma, children with chronic ear infections, who are free from ear infections, children with eczema, who are free […]

Putting it ALL Together

Recently I wrote about getting back into a routine once my kids started school. I was looking forward to getting back on track with my diet and exercise. This is only the 3rd day they’ve been in school and I have been getting back on tract already. The other day when I was thinking about this though, I realized I was only focusing on 2 of our 5 essentials that we teach. The 5 essentials to health are sound mind/spirit, exercise, nutrition, de-toxify, and optimized nervous system. I’ve just been focusing on getting the nutrition and exercise back. I […]

Youth Sports

Ayva and Ansley last season after playing against each other. I’m writing this after just having the pleasure of watching my daughter Ayva’s and niece Ansley’s soccer practice. I’m really excited for both of them, as they are doing travel soccer for the first time this season. I’m excited because when I look back at when I played, it was some of the best memories I can think of, and I made some close friends from playing together each year. When I see my kids in a group with other kids around, I’ll often think about how blessed I […]

Be Self Sustaining

As many of you know, I am a tower garden using, aquaponics developing, home growing clean eater. I like having my fish pond feed my vegetables, though, once again, I did not push early enough this year to get any real bounty. And I have serious issues with shade right now… some trees need trimming! But as I considered putting an article out about my gardening today, I thought I would hold off on my own yard, and spotlight one of Mike Adams articles instead. Check this out, and follow the link to read it all – Health Ranger unveils […]

The Power of a Good Routine

By Dr. Mark Richards Summer is nearing an end and things are going to start to be “normal” once again. I’m referring to my daily routines. During the school year I was doing great, I’d get myself up and dressed, get the kids up and dressed and on the bus, which would leave me a good 45 minutes to relax with a coffee and my Bible before heading off to work. My meals were pretty much the same throughout each day, with a planned dinner, that was healthy, tasty and […]

The Water Solution

The 60 Day Turnaround preaches that there should a significant focus on water first and foremost. Afterwards, you can do what you want as long as you continue to stick with this very special and important focus that we start with water, and end with water each day. I was recently told about an ancient health secret from the Asian realm, where 20 + ounces of water were consumed each day, and followed with a period of no food for at least 45 minutes. It sounded a lot like intermittent fasting, which I have spoken about, where you eat nothing […]