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How Much Fluoride Do You Drink?

April 26th, 2013 · 28 Comments · Food for Thought, Natural Health

Parenting isn’t easy. If you’re not being awakened at night or having to quell arguments between siblings, you’re researching like mad trying to figure out the best foods to feed your brood, and then making the time to cook from scratch and source quality ingredients. You have decisions to make about the health, schooling, and [...]

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Oil Pulling Tips and Success Stories ~ Do You Swish?

April 25th, 2013 · 48 Comments · Food for Thought, Natural Health

Quiz: What did you do upon getting out of bed this morning? Pray a morning offering/devotion. Get back in bed and pull the covers over your head, screaming, “I’m not facing the day! Go away!” Immediately start breakfast for ravenous mouths, still in your PJs. Look bleary-eyed into the face of a toddler and ask, [...]

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Lemon Wedge in My Water? Not Anymore!

March 22nd, 2013 · 75 Comments · Food for Thought, Green Living

I’ve really been enjoying squeezing lemon into my water lately and dropping in the wedge to flavor the next refill a bit. I’m already changing my new habit. I’m a pretty faithful produce washer, but as luck would have it, this week I cut a corner while getting my son’s lunch ready. My hands are [...]

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Is "New and Improved" Ever a Good Thing in the World of Food?

March 15th, 2013 · 22 Comments · Food for Thought

There are at least 7500 different kinds of apples in the world. Some of that ingenuity can be attributed to the wondrous creativity of God, who also created both the hippopotamus and the praying mantis as an example of His breadth and scope.   Some of it, although still ultimately God’s awesome power, can also [...]

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If Asparagus is a Spring Food, When is Pork in Season?

March 7th, 2013 · Comments Off · Food for Thought

When you’re eating a diet of largely unprocessed foods, it’s a short step to consider the seasonality of your ingredients. Unlike the inner aisles of the grocery store, where everything is always stocked and tastes exactly the same at all times of year, the produce section and farmers markets obviously change in availability and sale [...]

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Wheat is NOT Genetically Modified…so why so Many Sensitivities?

March 1st, 2013 · 130 Comments · Food for Thought

I used to get really upset when I was wrong. About anything. I’m not sure how I thought I should always be right, and I bet I put my poor parents through a lot with this tendency. A lot of people recognize that teenagers’ lack of life experience gives them that "invincible" mentality that makes [...]

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10 Reasons I Drink Bone Broth

February 21st, 2013 · 48 Comments · Food for Thought, Frugality, Natural Health

Would you drink a mug of chicken bone broth? I never drank it before last week. In that week, my toddler got pneumonia, my second grader threw up, my preschooler coughed for days on end, my husband coughed…and I would get a tickle of a sore throat now and then. It always went away. Let [...]

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