by Michael Jones, WHE, CMT
ATH Co-Editor of Holistic Nutrition

You have been breathing recycled air for over 15 hours. Your have been through so many time zones, you have no idea what day or time it is...

Editor´s Note from Michael Jones: When traveling, its so easy to catch a cold or eat unhealthy foods. This articles breaks down what is needed and what should be eaten when traveling.

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by Diana Herrington
Cross-posted from www.Care2.com  

A single serving of beets can boost your energy and lower your blood pressure. Eating beets long-term can help you fight cancer, reduce arthritic pain, and lose weight, as well as assisting in a number of other health areas...

Editor´s Note from Cheryl Murphy: A beet are a root vegetable that one either loves or just doesn’t want to see on the plate. Actually, the beet has much too offer beside a purplish hue on the plate. This article highlights the benefits of beets including lowering high blood pressure, increasing oxygen flow and even reducing chronic inflammation. 

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by Norman Shealy, MD, PhD
ATH Guest Editor of Integrative Medicine

There is no greater controversy than that over nutrition. Some claim that virtually every food is harmful and a remarkable variety of fad diets exist, from all raw to vegan. Interestingly vegans eat yeast, a member of the animal kingdom; and most wear later shoes and belts. So much for their purity. Meanwhile all of them eventually suffer B 12 deficiency and usually are deficient in one or more essential amino acids...

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by DeAnna L’am

My Mom first put me on a diet when I was about 8 years old. None of my photos show an overweight girl, though I wasn’t skinny either. Rather, I was an average-weight girl with the body type of her Mom, and her Grandma, none of whom were scrawny...

Editor's Note from Carol Lawrence and Stacy Toten: Beautiful article written about a mindless parent not thinking about the outcome of her decision based on being caught up in the cultural diet craze and the effects it had on her daughter. To all of us parents, that's why we believe Intentional Conscious Parenting is so important! Everything we say to our children has effects and consequences no matter how mundane we may think it is.

Family & Parenting

by Ihor Basko, DVM, CVA

We’ve just passed the Spring Equinox, which means that the season has officially changed!

In addition to changes in the weather and changes in the length of the days and nights, dietary changes are in order as well...

Editor's Note from Cathy Alinovi: How can it matter what we feed in the spring (or any other season)? Well, think for a sec, though - we ate stews in winter, salads in summer, fresh fruits in the spring but still some soups as we can still have rainy days. What would our dogs like?

Animals & Pets

by Rika Keck, ACN, Adv. MT, HLC

It is such a common buzzword for many health conditions but what does it really mean? After all, how can one live on this planet without stress?...

Editor's Note from Neda Smith: The word stress makes me stressed out thinking about it. My shoulders get tense and immediately I am in my head thinking of everything that needs to get done and will I ever accomplish it all.  Yikes, that is stressful.  Rika Keck provides us with 5 simple solutions to help all of us bring down the tension, get out of our heads and reduce the internal and external stressors.

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by Roby Mitchell, MD

Many of you worry about pesticides, radiation, microwaves, chem-trails, GMO products and other adulterations but after 36 years of healing people from serious diseases, I can guarantee you nothing is more dangerous to your health than the many different forms of sugar in our food supply...

Editor's Note from Neda Smith: We all love our sweets but how damaging it is really to our bodies and overall health?  Dr. Roby Mitchell explains which types of sweets creates disease in our bodies and one particular one that does just the opposite and kills disease.  Find out now.

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Editor's Note from Neda Smith: Sean Croxton used to believe in the same philosophy as the majority of us of us do, that a calorie is a calorie. Over the years he has come to realize the main culprit of the obesity epidemic is no longer about fat and calorie counting, but with our consumption of sugar. This video is packed with amazing information.  Make sure to check it out.

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