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Cortisol and Zinc: What a Hard Year Takes, and the Foods That Put It Back

A hard year changes what your body spends and how much you eat. Food-first answers for magnesium, zinc and vitamin C when the plate is getting smaller.
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Grief and Loss of Appetite: What Still Goes Down When Cooking for One Feels Pointless

Grief takes the reason to cook before it takes your appetite. The soup, blended food and fresh juice that still go down when cooking for one feels pointless.
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Creatine After 50: What It Does for Women on a Plant-Based Diet

Creatine after 50, for women eating plant-based. What the body already makes, what the postmenopausal research found, and why food comes first.
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Fall Allergies or a Cold? How to Tell the Difference — and the Quercetin Foods to Eat Either Way

Allergy symptoms run for weeks; a cold eases in seven to ten days. What usually tells them apart in late October, and the quercetin foods to eat either way.
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Your Body Already Makes GLP-1. Here's How to Help It Work Again.

Your body already makes GLP-1, the hormone that says "enough." How whole food, fiber and the order you eat help that system work again — for good.
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Why Your Energy Dips on a Plant-Based Diet (and What the Juice Has to Do With It)

Tired after going plant-based? The crash usually comes from the pasta that replaced the meat. Why vegetable juice makes the difference, and what to change.
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Education

The Daniel Fast, Done Well

A practical look at how to do the Daniel Fast well, with guidance on what to eat, what to avoid, and how to keep the focus on both nourishment and spiritual purpose.
The Foods That Raise Nitric Oxide Naturally
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The Foods That Raise Nitric Oxide Naturally

The question usually arrives the same way. Someone calls or writes, and somewhere in the first minute it comes out: *should I be drinking beet juice?
What the Bible Actually Says About Food
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What the Bible Actually Says About Food

The question comes to us more than any other, and it usually arrives with an apology attached. I hope this isn't a silly question — but does the Bible actually tell us what to eat?
Why You're So Tired All the Time (And Why It's Probably Not Your Thyroid)
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Why You're So Tired All the Time (And Why It's Probably Not Your Thyroid)

Tired all the time but your bloodwork came back normal? Here's what's usually behind midlife fatigue — and the food-first changes that help.