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WIG Episode 24: Why You Can’t Afford To Be Healthy

December 17, 2011 Physical health

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I forgot to say in this episode: no WIG next weekend due to Christmas celebration. One of my biggest pet peeves is hearing people talking about how they can’t afford organic produce, natural remedies, etc., and then how they love their new iPhone, how much they’re spending on Christmas gifts this year, and so on. [...]

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Why Diets Suck, Part 2: Raw Food Veganism

December 14, 2011 Nutrition

Looking for a healthy diet? In today’s post, as I continue with a ten-part series, “Why Diets Suck”, I analyze The Raw Food Vegan (or, Raw Vegan) Diet. This diet has gotten more and more press lately, as it gains more and more adherents to its radical lifestyle. It’s almost a sort of cult, with [...]

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Is Soy A Health Food?

December 14, 2011 Nutrition

Should a good healthy diet include soy-based foods? Tofu and other soy-related products began to grow in popularity in the United States back in the 1960’s and 70’s. The hippie vegetarians, with their cries that eating animals was cruel and that animal fat caused heart attacks, began using soy products as a replacement for meat and [...]

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Five Steps To An Alzheimer Cure?

December 12, 2011 Natural health remedies

I – and no one else – can claim to know of an Alzheimer cure. But when you find out that such simple, inexpensive remedies as using baking soda for colds actually work for many people, you can’t help but wonder why there can’t be a natural and simple Alzheimer’s disease treatment. Actually, there is strong [...]

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WIG Episode 23: Healthy Pillows And Healthy Underwear

December 10, 2011 Green home

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Welcome back to another episode of the “Weird Is Great” podcast! Today I won’t be focusing on one particular topic. I will camp around our homestead update for a few minutes, but the bulk of this show is going to be “The Crunchy Coach Tells All.” What will I be telling about? The joy of [...]

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Why Green Cleaning?

December 8, 2011 Environmental issues

Why green cleaning? Are conventional cleaners really that bad? Well, let me ask you this question: Say you have a three-year-old who wants to help you clean the toilet. Would you let him or her do it with the toilet bowl cleaner you have on hand? No? Well, why not? Chances are, you don’t have [...]

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Why Diets Suck, Part I: Introduction

December 7, 2011 Nutrition

Soon, healthy diets to lose weight will be in high demand. Come January 1, thousands upon thousands of well-meaning Americans will resolve to lose so many pounds. Books on weight loss will fly off bookstore and library shelves. Amazon will probably see a nice increase in profit that month. And while a handful of those New [...]

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Alternative Cancer Cures

December 5, 2011 Natural health remedies

In search of alternative cancer cures, or ways to heal cancers beyond that which is offered by conventional medicine? I congratulate you. Because the fact is, many times conventional treatments such as radiation, chemotherapy and drugs put the body in an even more compromised position. They are, in essence, either toxic or dangerous. Before I [...]

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WIG Episode 22: The Never-Ending Diet Controversy, Part Two

December 3, 2011 Nutrition

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There are a lot of claims out there as to what constitutes a healthy diet. Some say unpasteurized milk products are dangerous; others say they are not only safe to consume, but extremely healthy. Some say meat is bad for you; others say you need it daily if you don’t want to risk nutritional deficiencies. [...]

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How Homeschooling Happens

December 1, 2011 Homeschooling

A homeschooling how-to is almost impossible to write. There are as many ways to homeschool as there are homeschooling families, because different families have different needs and goals, and different parents have different beliefs about education. Some parents believe children should follow the same curriculum as their peers in the local school. Others say, teach [...]

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