low-fat – Traditional Wellness Wisdom

Vaccination or Nutrition? Why Vitamin A, C and other nutrients can prevent disease

Raine Saunders April 4, 2017 grassfed beef, health, low-fat, organic food, pasture raised eggs, pasture-raised, raw milk, Real food, saturated fat, Toxins, traditional diet, traditional fats, traditional food, vaccination, Vitamin A, wellness

by What role do nutrients from real food play in prevention and recovery from disease? Vitamin A is critical for absorption of protein in the foods we eat and immune system function. USDA Dietary Recommendations call for low-fat and fat-free…
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Liberate your health: step away from the scale

Raine Saunders July 22, 2016 gut healing, health, low-fat, organic food, traditional diet, weight loss, wellness

by In the last few months, I haven’t had a scale in my house. Prior to that, I can’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t own one. During the early months of this year, my family spent…
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Deceptions in the food industry: “all-natural”

Raine Saunders September 21, 2015 digestive health, low-fat, processed food, Real food, Toxins, vegetable oil, wellness

by In the first article in this series, Deceptions in the food industry: low-fat foods, I talk about the pervasiveness of processed, low-fat foods in our food supply, misconceptions about how low-fat foods are healthy, and the dishonesty in labeling…
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Ways to aid your body in digesting fats

Raine Saunders April 21, 2015 digestive health, fermented foods, fermented foods and beverages, grassfed beef, gut healing, immunity, low-fat, organic food, processed food, Real food, saturated fat, traditional fats, traditional food, vegetable oil digestion, digestive health, digestive tract, immune system, real food, traditional fats

by Does your body have trouble digesting fats? Maybe you have consumed low-fat products for a period of time and/or consumed modern, artificial fats such as vegetable oils (canola, soy, or corn). Or, maybe you have added real, traditional fats back…
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Deceptions in the food industry: low-fat foods

Raine Saunders February 9, 2015 GMOs, gut healing, health, low-fat, organic food, pasture-raised, processed food, Real food, saturated fat, traditional fats, traditional food low-fat, pasture-raised, processed food, reading labels, real food, saturated fat, traditional fats, traditional food, weight loss

by Nearly four years ago on my other web site, Agriculture Society, I started a series called Deceptions in the Food Industry where I discussed the fallacies of processed foods, and faulty claims made on labels of many foods you…
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The importance of dietary fats

Raine Saunders February 4, 2015 grassfed beef, health, low-fat, organic food, Real food, saturated fat, traditional fats, traditional food, vegetable oil factory-farmed food, grassfed beef, heart disease, low-fat, real food, red meat, saturated fat, traditional fat, traditional food

by We live in a world where dietary fats have been increasingly feared and avoided. With epidemic numbers of people experiencing heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and cancer, health experts and professionals are starting to understand the significant…
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