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Are Your Guts Leaky? Let's Find Out Why!

Are Your Guts Leaky? Let's Find Out Why!

Certain symptoms can be traced back to gut health and possibly leaky gut! The gut, or gastrointestinal system, is truly a gateway to overall health. The gut microbiome is an ecosystem of organisms including bacteria, yeasts, fungi, viruses, and protozoan throughout the digestive tract.

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Traditional Diets

Traditional Diets

What we can Learn from Traditional Diets

In the 1930s, a Cleveland dentist named Weston A. Price, DDS, traveled to isolated parts of the world to study the dental health of people unaffected by Western civilization. His studies revealed that dental caries and deformed dental arches, which resulted in crooked teeth, were the result of nutritional deficiencies and not genetically inherited as previously believed.

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Water

Water

The Cleansing Nature of Water

We’ve been talking all about cleanses and detoxes this month, but did you know that your body can cleanse and detox itself. Yes, it can flush harmful substances out of your system ALL BY ITSELF!! But one important thing it does need from you is WATER!!

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Resolution Check In

Resolution Check In

Just curious about who has made a resolution this year? It’s the last week of January and I’m wondering if you have stuck to it this far. Have you had support? Was it a BIG goal or a little change that you have made? I decided to make a list of goals for the year with one for each month. I have been able to keep my goals for the month but am struggling with patience and can see why people don’t typically make it to the end of the month for resolutions and give up before things get going.

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Day Twenty-Nine - Holiday Health Challenge

Day Twenty-Nine - Holiday Health Challenge

Book Your Appointments

Today is Friday. If you are like me, you don’t really feel like working. Today I am going through my calendar and setting dates for all my yearly appointments. I want to ensure that I am taking care of myself and that I have scheduled time for appointments for my children too. Yearly check ups for physicals, dental and eye doctor visits are part of a healthy regime. Why not book them now and not let things go for another year. 

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Day Twenty-Two - Holiday Health Challenge

Day Twenty-Two - Holiday Health Challenge

Get Domestic

Over the holiday season many of us get at least a few days off. How do you use that time?  Are you home? I suggest using a little of your down time to get your life organized for 2018!  Take the time to meal plan, unclutter the house and look at your schedule for the year.

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Day Two - Holiday Health Challenge

Day Two - Holiday Health Challenge

First things first, I know that there are LOTS of events we feel we HAVE to attend over the holidays, but do we?  Today I suggest sitting down with your calendar and really evaluating all the invites you have scheduled.  I know there is at least ONE that...

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The Benefits of Raw Chocolate

The Benefits of Raw Chocolate

It's been a busy week! On Thursday night of last week, I was privileged to speak at the Telus Spark Adults Only Night. It was a session about food and...

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Welcome to My New Website!
Nutrition, Education, Coaching Megan Barefoot Nutrition, Education, Coaching Megan Barefoot

Welcome to My New Website!

No Shoes?  What’s No Shoes?

I’d like to introduce myself. I’m Megan Barefoot. Besides having a Bachelor of Science, I am a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York, which is an in-depth nutrition coaching course to help people like you, me, pretty much anyone looking for change, transform...

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