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Top 2025 Nutrition Trends to Watch For
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Top 2025 Nutrition Trends to Watch For
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Is a Plant-Based Diet Right for Everyone? Exploring the Benefits of Including Animal Foods
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Is a Plant-Based Diet Right for Everyone? Exploring the Benefits of Including Animal Foods
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How To Know If You Have Parasites!!
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How To Know If You Have Parasites!!
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Grilling Veggies to Perfection: A How-To Guide for a Healthy Summer
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Grilling Veggies to Perfection: A How-To Guide for a Healthy Summer
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Hibiscus – Not Just A Beautiful Flower
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Hibiscus – Not Just A Beautiful Flower

Ever Thought You Might Drink Your Garden?

Ever heard of the hibiscus flower? Have you ever thought about eating it or drinking it as a tea? I have been able to travel south where these flowers bloom daily and man do they smell beautiful! I hadn’t heard of eating or drinking them to improve my health until I was in Mexico a few years ago and had hibiscus tea.

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Does anyone eat together as a family anymore??
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Does anyone eat together as a family anymore??

Come And Get It!!

When was the last time you and your family sat down to eat a meal together? Is it only for special occasions like Thanksgiving and Christmas that more effort is made to get everyone to sit together and eat as a family? Today’s society has families running from activity to activity making it hard to round up the troops for a meal, especially dinnertime.  Even the family TV sitcoms from the past had families sitting around the table sharing a meal. It was expected that each family member make it a priority to reserve that time for family.

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Phyto whats? In Where? And Why?
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Phyto whats? In Where? And Why?

Is there more than vitamins and minerals to think about?

When we think about the nutrients in food, we most often think about vitamins like vitamin C in oranges or minerals like calcium and magnesium to keep our bones healthy. Very rarely have I heard a mother say, “Eat those veggies because they are full of phytonutrients!” So, what are these phytochemicals and how do they contribute to our health?

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What's Your Why?
2018, Challenge, Choices, Education, Food, Goals, Health, Health Coach, Health Food, Holistic, Natural, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Nutritionist, Self Care, Weight Loss, Wellness, Whole Foods Megan Barefoot 2018, Challenge, Choices, Education, Food, Goals, Health, Health Coach, Health Food, Holistic, Natural, Nutrients, Nutrition, Nutrition Coach, Nutritionist, Self Care, Weight Loss, Wellness, Whole Foods Megan Barefoot

What's Your Why?

Why a Why is so Important

When you are losing weight, trying to improve your health or have any BIG goal it’s important you have a strong “WHY”. This doesn’t mean a reason like “because I should” or “because my doctor told me I need to” although those are both good reasons to start embarking on a change in lifestyle to get healthy, they might not get you through the tough times….and trust me when I say there are likely going to be tough times if the “goal” is a big one.

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Traditional Diets
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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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Fasting, Is it for You?
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Fasting, Is it for You?

What is Intermittent Fasting?

Intermittent fasting is not a diet. It doesn’t cut calories or starve you. It changes “when” you eat not “what” you eat. It’s about cycling between periods of eating and periods of not eating. We all fast overnight while we sleep. That is how the name breakfast came about. It means break-the-fast.

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Day One - Holiday Health Challenge
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Day One - Holiday Health Challenge

I know, I know, it sounds SO simple.  But did you know that your body is approximately 60% water and that we are constantly losing water through our urine and our sweat?  When we are going into the holidays filled with goodies and treats there also some other good reasons to drink more water!...

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