The Healthy Journal

Instead of medications or getting a flu shot, boost your health with a daily shot of health. Taking two shots a day (even one shot a day) of this health drink—one in the morning and one in the evening—will give your immune system a kick. But don't expect it to make-up for an unhealthy diet of processed foods and sugar. Nope! Shot of Health from   Ancestral Nutrition yield ~14 shots category Drink cuisine Vegan ingredients 1.5 C filtered water 7 Tbsp apple cider vinegar (ACV) Juice of 1 lemon or 1 drop lemon essential oil 1 Tbsp raw honey 5 Tbsp of collagen (if you have it) directions 1. Combine in glass jar and shake until blended. 2. Store in fridge. 3. Take 1 to 2 shots (one morning, one evening) daily I just took my shot for today and, I should add, it blows your hair back. Woo! BTW if you use Bragg's ACV (which I highly encourage), you'll be getting a dose of prebiotics as well. Prebiotics is food for the good bacteria in your gut. For more information on pro and pre...

I  LOVE  coffee. I mean I like the taste—never ruined it with sugar (yeah, even me a former sugar addict). So when I found I needed to eliminate coffee from my diet, I was devastated—kind of describes how I felt about many things I needed to stop eating/drinking. Reading the book  Nature's Cancer-Fighting Foods by Verne Varona  started me on my healing diet, which I attribute to  the cure for my hereditary curse . Green tea was one of several things I added to fight cancer, which tended to grow in my colon. Most are familiar with the addictive properties of caffeinated coffee—just try a day without it and get  smacked  with a whopper  caffeine withdrawal  headache. But did you know that coffee, regular and decaf, is very acid in the body? When the body becomes acidic due to a bad diet (consumption of processed foods with artificial ingredients and sugar), it becomes a cancer-producing, inflammatory environment. Green Tea: A Better Bevera...

I'm proud of my hubby who is training for a half-marathon in April. It will be his third. He's decided that having a half-marathon to train for keeps him motivated to get out and exercise. I say, whatever it takes to get a person to exercise is good. He really gets into it. Carries a water bottle on his training runs. Marks up the calendar with the distances he needs to run on which days to get his body ready for the 13.1 miles on the day of the race. Studies about the right energy supplements to feed the muscles. Works on having an efficient running form. And looks for nutritious smoothie recipes that will build his body. Here's one he found in the March Outside magazine that starts with his favorite drink—coconut water. It's a great drink for breakfast. Packs a wallop with protein and immune booster foods like maca powder and hemp seeds. Super Foods Green Smoothie from Outside Magazine yield 2 servings category Drink cuisine Vegan ingredients 16 oz coconut water 3...

I had a scoby in my fridge for some time, plus had all the ingredients and supplies needed, before I finally decided to just do it . Had I known how easy it would be, I wouldn't have waited so long. What are you waiting for? Scoby's are readily available. If you're making Kombucha, the scoby naturally replicates. Ask someone brewing the fermented tea—if they don't have a scoby baby at the moment, they will soon have one they can pass on to you. What is a SCOBY? SCOBY is an acronym for Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria & Yeast. It's similar to the mother that makes  vinegar. Kombucha begins as a sugary tea—the scoby infuses bacteria which devours most of the sugar during the fermenting process. The tea is transformed into a refreshing, fizzy, slightly sour fermented beverage. After a few brewings using the scoby, you'll begin to feel like you have a new household pet. It is alive after all. So the first time you have something go wrong with a batch and you have...