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Gluten Wheat Free Diet: Is It For You?

You may be wondering why you should care about a gluten wheat free diet.  There is certainly a lot of talk about gluten-free diets these days, and plenty of people that recommend this diet, both for weight loss and for general health.  The question is, “Would YOU benefit from such a diet?” First, just exactly what […]

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Raw Food Vegan Diet: Is it for you?

Ever wonder if a raw food vegan diet is something you’d like to try? Many people often get interested in a raw food vegan diet as a way to lose a lot of weight.  What people fail to realize is that first and foremost, the raw food diet is a meal program for those seeking health, wellness […]

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Reasons for Eating Organic

Why should you eat organic foods?  Ever wondered how things have changed in the past 20 years on the organic food front?  In years past, one of the biggest reasons people switched to organic foods to avoid consuming pesticides with their foods.  Is that still the same today, or have the reasons changed for deciding […]

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Is Organic Food Better For You?

With all the interest these days in organic foods, you might be wondering, is organic food better for you or not? Like anything else, there are people on both sides of the debate.  Finding definitive answers can be difficult, since there hasn’t been much in the way of long-term studies on USDA defined organic foods […]

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Do You Buy Organic Foods?

Unless you’ve had your head stuck in the sand, you know we’re in a recession. Because of that economic slow down, it was expected by market researchers that there would be a slump in sales of organic foods. Turns out instead of a slow down in organic food sales, they actually increased by 15.8 percent in 2008, according to a survey done by the Lieberman Research Group for the Organic Trade Association (OTA).

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