Summer is closing in, which (hopefully) means more family time! And while the great outdoors is our classroom over the summer, it also helps to have some fun activities in our pockets that will stimulate those little minds until the next school year. I hope a few of these ideas resonate with you too! 1. Outdoor Lab or Mud Kitchen One of the best things our kids…
“Thanks to vegetable oil’s inherent ability to inhibit life, vegetable oils are the chemicals that preserve a Twinkie for years on end. More than any other ingredient, vegetable oil is what puts the “junk” in junk food.” Deep Nutrition, Catherine Shanahan, M.D. If you go to your pantry right now and pick up, say, dried cranberries, what ingredient(s) would you expect to see on the list…
One of the hottest research topics in the world of wellness right now is the gut microbiome. It turns out we’re not as autonomous as we once thought, and are actually being controlled in large part by the trillions of microorganisms we play host to, most of which are beneficial—crucial, actually—to our health. But, thankfully, we have control too, and that comes through what we…