7 Pillars Lifestyle

Natural Beauty Secrets

It has been about twenty years since I stopped using conventional beauty care products. When I was a young mommy, a friend taught me the dirty little secret about the ingredients that were in the shampoo that I was using on my brand new baby. The shampoo professed to be gentle and tear-free and just for babies so it had to be safe, right? So I thought.

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10 Tips to Blast Sugar Cravings

Sugar is every where, offered as a reward and a gesture of good will. How can we get out of the vicious addictive cycle of sugar? I offer 10 Tips to help you Blast your Sugar Cravings.

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Stay Hydrated with Food

We all know that drinking adequate amounts of water will help keep us hydrated but drinking water isn’t the only way to stay hydrated. According to the Institute of Medicine, 20% of your daily water intake comes from food. But, that is only true if you are eating real, whole food.

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A Real Electrolyte Drink

Electrolyte replacing sports drinks or even those that are designed to be used to re-hydrate during bouts of sickness contain some basic ingredients that should help your body re-hydrate and replace lost minerals and electrolytes. But what if they really aren’t doing a good job?

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It’s Time for a Real Food Revolution!

I believe that we need a revolution. A Real Food Revolution! It’s time that we take the advice of Hippocrates who knew long, long, long ago what works best for a healthy vibrant body: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”

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Eat Your Veggies and Your Weeds

Every health agency and nutritional guru recommends at least 3-5 servings of vegetables per day. Research shows that only about 9% of the population gets the recommended amount and even more concerning is that over half of the population may go days without eating a single vegetable.

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Fat: The Good. The Bad. The Essential.

Fat seems to be one of the most complex and misunderstood concepts of nutrition, so misunderstood that our country went through a “fat-free” revolution that introduced countless products to our grocery store shelves.

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