This blog illuminates the path to wellness via demystifying the latest nutritional breakthroughs, homemade skincare and tincture design, and simple and delicious recipes. Eat to thrive!
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- Easy, breezy cleansing: A basic 10-day detox
by Julia |Comments are offCleanse, detox, whatever you may call it, once the days begin to get longer our winter-stagnant bodies seem to request a bit of assistance moving out the old to make way for the new. If you are in good health generally, but feel a little bogged down, fogged out, and low-energy, a quick & simple [...]Read more
- 5-DAY MINI-DETOX Here I Come!
by Julia |Comments are offI’m taking the opportunity, while vacationing in sunny Florida, to complete a MINI-DETOX to clear out some of the debris my system has accumulated over the holiday season. Nothin’ fancy – just the bare bones: Clean eating + yoga + minimal supplement support = new, energized, glowing ME! Want to follow along? “Like” my Authentic [...]Read more
- Radiation protection: Eat it, drink it, bathe in it
by Julia Reiss |Comments are offMuch has been written lately about the impact of the radiation leaking from the Fukushima site in Japan. A series of spin and counter-spins, varied views, hyperbole, heavy-handed optimism, fear and anger, disbelief. Anyone who believes the radiation from Fukushima won’t reach us, or our children, that we are too far away, that things can’t [...]Read more
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- Antioxidants and free radicals: Why you want one and what you can do about the other
by Julia Reiss |Comments are offAntioxidants. The term is always there—on packaging, in conversation, in articles—you know you want them but do you know why? I wasn’t quite sure myself until I actually attended a class on the free radical-antioxidant relationship: antioxidants are compounds that protect the body from damage, particularly free-radical damage. But there’s another term…free radical. Images of [...]Read more
- Antioxidant Warrior Dinner Recipe
by Julia Reiss |Comments are offAntioxidant Warrior Dinner Give your body the raw materials it needs to protect you while you sleep. This recipe is full of copper, zinc, and manganese … you’ll use these nutrients to create the mighty Superoxide Dismutase antioxidant! You will need: 1 sweet potato 1 cup brown or wild rice 2-3 cremini mushrooms 2 [...]Read more
- Oils and GMO: GM-NO!
by Julia Reiss |Comments are offIt’s become a bit of an invasive term these days: GMO. It seems to appear everywhere and it places it wasn’t found before: cooking shows, mainstream magazines, daily news broadcasts. What is a GMO as it pertains to food? Should it concern you? How can it influence a healthy diet? I just had to know…so [...]Read more
