Breath Freer & Stay Healthy through the Pollen Season “My seasonal allergies are driving me crazy!!! Is there anything I can do?” is an all too common frustration that I hear in the spring & summer. Actually there are many things you can do to breathe more freely and have some quality of life during the hay days of pollen production. Are you ready for some healthier alternatives to allergy medications taken daily, to suppress your unmanageable allergic histamine responses? Many of us take for granted that we can comfortably breathe year round but for others, the welcoming warmth of spring’s sunshine stimulates a full orchestra of pollens stepping up…
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Common Food Allergies
What are food allergies? We as Americans are quite attached to our comfort foods, especially when we’re under a lot of stress. Most of us hold our comfort foods sacred, even when faced with the inconvenient truth with nutritional experts preaching about junk food’s demise on our bodies. It is often these “comfort foods” to which we are most food sensitive or allergic. Let’s look at common and known food intolerances. The biggest dietary offenders that create food allergies You most likely can guess what the top 5 foods that are on the food sensitivity hit parade. They are foods we Americans consume with unconscious pleasure. Maybe the foods you…
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Why Asthma Bronchial Challenges are More Frequent in the Fall & Winter
Why are Asthma Bronchial Challenges More Frequent in the Fall & Winter? by Kristina Shaw, NAET Allergy Acupuncture Specialist Asthma bronchial challenges have a higher frequency of occurrence in the fall and winter when the Chinese medicine metal and water elements govern these seasonal conditions. In the Five Element Chinese medicine systems, the autumn months are governed by the lungs and large intestine functions. So if an individual has a constitutional deficiency in the lungs or digestive tract, there can be more acute asthma flare ups or aggravation with allergic asthma, chronic bronchitis or emphysema challenges. Grief, sadness or melancholy feelings can play into asthma respiratory health challenges, as can…
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Understanding Gluten Sensitivity Class
Medical doctor David Brownstein estimates that 20-30 of Americans currently are affected by gluten sensitivity. That’s one in six Americans! Gluten intolerance has become so universal that special diets have become common place. At this evening class, wheat, & gluten grains will be fleshed out for both their wonderful comfort food and their follies in an entertaining & empowering PowerPoint. Both veteran & novice gluten intolerant individuals will gain new skills & resources for making gluten restrictive diet more enjoyable. Gluten Sensitivity Class Offered This 2 hour class will address many of the most common questions that newbies and seasoned gluten restrictive individuals ask when going off of wheat and wondering…
