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The quality of your skin tone and the appearance of wrinkles is related to a loss of three vital skin structures: collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid. To minimize wrinkling you can eat and drink to support these internal skin structures.

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Many common symptoms, for instance headaches, sinus congestion, aches and pains, skin problems, low energy and flat moods as well as anxiety, to name just a few, can be caused by intolerance to certain foods. Foods are powerful chemicals that effect our ablity to fight off infections. What we eat will alter our moods and energy levels as well.

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Heartburn is one of the most common human experiences. It’s become a multimillion-dollar pharmaceutical industry gold mine. Most often you can be free of heartburn by changing how you eat.

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Heart health is often thought of as an issue primarily for men. Not so! While cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for men, it also claims more women’s lives than the next 14 causes of death combined. It is by far a greater threat to the health of women after age 50 menopause than breast, or any other kind of cancer. In 1997, for example, twelve times as many women died of cardiovascular disease as did from breast cancer (the numbers were 502,938 and 41,943 respectively.) Currently, more than one in five women have some type of heart or blood vessel disease.

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Eicosanoids (eye-kah-sah-noids) are a kind of hormone messenger that tell our cells what to do at a very basic level. People have been making guesses about the function of these cellular instructors since the 1930’s. It wasn’t till the 1980’s however that the technology to see eicosanoids in action was developed. Most of us are familiar with endocrine hormones, like estrogen and testosterone. Those familiar hormones are secreted into the blood to be delivered to their target tissues. Eicosanoids are another kind of hormone. They are born in and never leave the cell. So we can’t study them by looking at the amounts in our blood. Our understanding of how important eicosanoids are is growing by leaps every year. Unfortunately, conventional medicine and nutrition has been very slow to incorporate new information about cellular hormones and health. In the case of eicosanoids, incorporating the growing body of knowledge about how they work means significantly changing the ways we look at health and disease.

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Naturopathic physicians James and Peter D’Adamo have woven together research from medical anthropology, cancer treatment and immunology to illuminate their theory that proteins in the blood interact with proteins called lectins in foods, to cause varying degrees of cell damage. These serotype proteins, are most commonly known as your blood type. Your blood type is an inherited factor that can give you important clues about what foods are genetically determined to be most compatible with your body tissues.

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What are the foods that have the most health benefits? Which have the most phytonutrients for optimizing your health?

What can you feel good about eating that is fun AND good for you?

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Organically grown local foods are the best nutrition for you. Organically grown foods have more available vitamins, minerals and fatty acids than conventionally farmed and processed foods do. Organically grown foods offer only good nutrition; conventionally grown foods add damaging chemistry to your body.

Sweets of any kind, and grains and starchy vegetables like potatoes increase the inflammatory response in your body. The more muscle you have and the more you use it, the more of these foods you can use without having ‘leftover’ in your system to cause inflammation.

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