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About 70 percent of U.S. children have low levels of vitamin D, which puts them at higher risk for bone and heart disease.
“We expected the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency would be high, but the magnitude of the problem nationwide was shocking,” said Dr. Juhi Kumar of Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center. (Source)
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It’s cold and flu season. If you feel something coming on, it’s best not to run out and buy something that will suppress the symptoms. Getting sick is the body’s way of “housecleaning”. In other words, your body is attempting to rid itself of the accumulated toxins.
What you want to do is support [...]

I spent most of my time at the WAPF Wise Traditions Conference meeting with sponsors. And my photos reflect that. Here are some pictures I took of all the wonderful people who bring us food and books and supplements, etc.:
Dave Wetzel of Green Pasture Products (makers of the fermented cod liver oil and butter oil):

At [...]

It’s that time of year… and I’ve been seeing commercials for flu shots — like this one:

But are flu shots safe? And are they even effective?
Watch the following videos.
Here’s Dr. Mercola on flu shots:

This one is from a guy who called a flu vaccine manufacturer and recorded the call — listen through to the very [...]

Dr. Oz was on Oprah a while back, saying that he believes cod liver oil is the number one nutritional supplement and that we should all be taking it. I heartily agree!
However, now there’s something even better than cod liver oil: fermented cod liver oil.
We’ve been using the fermented cod liver oil from Green Patures [...]

Everyone knows breast milk is the best thing for babies. But some of us have not been blessed with an easy time breastfeeding. I loved breastfeeding and had no problems… until I started having issues with my breast milk supply when my baby Kate was only 4 months old.
I tried everything to increase my [...]

Sometimes people ask me what supplements we take. I’m a firm believer in getting nutrition from food. However, we don’t always eat perfectly and we are still recovering from years of eating SAD (Standard American Diet).
Also, Kate’s a growing girl and I’m planning to get pregnant again soon (in the next year I think). [...]

I will be doing a few posts about the Deidre Currie Festival. I took a lot of notes at the seminars and will share as much as I can with you all.
Today I’ll start with a few photos…
Here’s Archie with Baby Jack:

And here they are the morning of the festival:

Archie played a slideshow of [...]

Kate and I are leaving tomorrow morning on a trip to Dallas to be with family and help out with the crisis that’s going on. While we are there, we will be spending some time in the pool, and going on walks.
So we’re going to get some sun. And lots of it! But we won’t [...]

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that Seth and I are both suffering from adrenal fatigue (and possibly low thyroid function as well). I started supplementing with 50 mg of Iodoral per day, as well as dessicated adrenal gland a couple of months ago. Seth started taking the supplements a [...]