Everywhere I go I am seeing signs and advertisements promoting flu vaccination. Local stores are all offering incentives for people to get their shots and doctor's offices are pushing for them strongly. This year for us will be just like every year previous though...we politely decline any vaccines and instead concern ourselves with boosting immunity and staying healthy naturally and without injecting ourselves with a chemical cocktail. There is no data to available to show that the benefit of … [Read more...]
Staying Healthy and Boosting Immunity After Valentine’s Day
Leading up to Valentine's Day you are likely to read articles about gift ideas, ways to make it magical, or perhaps what candy and chocolate is the most ethical and healthy. You don't typically see articles about what to do if your kids came home from school with a metric ton of candy and sweets and you don't actually have the heart to confiscate it. That would be me. I don't buy any Valentine's candy his time of year. Not a single piece for me or the kids. When we have to send the kids to … [Read more...]
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Staying Healthy and Boosting Immunity AFTER Halloween
Much of the information you find about staying healthy around Halloween addresses what you can do beforehand... aka keep kids away from the candy. You see advice to have the Great Pumpkin come and trade the candy for books and toys or you forgo trick or treating and make healthier treats yourself. That is actually great advice. Halloween candy is actually terribly bad for your kid's health. Those are just the facts. It is loaded with immune suppressing sugar and other junkie ingredients like … [Read more...]
Feel Better Links
We are headed into cold and flu season so I thought I would link to some of the articles I have already written about this. No need to reinvent the wheel. ;) This article about flu shots is timely and I have had several readers ask if I get them or my kids get them. The easy answer is HECK NO! ;) Check out my article: Flu Shots - Helpful or Dangerous? I just wrote about an alternative to over the counter flu and cold medications called Sinupret. This is a great, natural product for … [Read more...]
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