Food & Nutrition
Durango Farmers Market, Saturdays 8-12
Don’t forget to check out the Durango Farmers market, all summer long! The Durango Farmers Market is a venue for local agriculturalists, artisans, ready-to-eat, value-added, and service vendors to meet and share the fruits of their labor with the Durango community. THE DURANGO FARMERS MARKET IS HELD IN THE PARKING LOT OF FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF DURANGO, AT 259 WEST 9TH STREET. THE PARKING LOT IS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE BANK,...
Healthy Living: Exercise and Weight Loss
If you find it difficult to lose weight, do you beat yourself up for not exercising enough? Surprise! Exercise has very little to do with weight loss. Find out why from Dr. Ashley Lucas with PHD Advanced Nutrition.
Eat Local Harvest Dinner, Sept. 9th
The second annual Eat Local Harvest Dinner will be held at 5 p.m. Sept. 9th on the Smiley Building lawn, 1309 East Third Ave. The meal will benefit Local First and community agricultural producers, with locally sourced fine dining prepared by chefs from Cyprus Cafe, El Moro Tavern, Eolus Bar and Dining, The Ore House, and more. Cocktails will be served at 5 p.m. with dinner beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $100 and includes wine,...
Overcome Yo-Yo Dieting
If you’ve tried to lose weight in the past only to gain it back, stop thinking of yourself as a failure. Ashley Lucas with PHD Advanced Nutrition shares advice from her research into weight loss challenges and successes.
Durango Farmers Market
The Durango Farmers Market will be starting the 10th of June this year. Get ready for good produce and great people! The Farmers Market will be held every Saturday until the 28th of October this year. Durango Farmers Market a fun stop for the whole family!! The Farmers Market brings in farmers from our community to share the products from there farms straight to you! Trying to bring in a healthy lifestyle to our community....
Healthy Living – Low Cost Blood Screenings
Now you can order your own set of blood screenings with a doctor’s appointment. Take hold of your own health with this new program from San Juan Regional Medical Center.
What You Need to Know About Detoxing & Cleansing this Spring
This article has been provided courtesy of Superfood specialist Derek Van Atta and Sarvaa Superfood. Is Cleansing Right for You? Have you ever asked your body how it’s feeling? Like, “Hey there…How are you feeling today?” For many of us this practice seems strange. Yet opening up a ‘conversation’ with your body can be very helpful. How does your body communicate to you? Sometimes, being honest...
Cortez Farmers Market opens registration for returning vendors
This article was first published in The Cortez Journal As the Cortez Farmers Market prepares to open for business, registration has already opened for returning vendors. The market, which includes produce sellers from Montezuma and Dolores counties, will be open every Saturday morning from June through October in the parking lot near the Montezuma County Building on 109 W. Main St. This year, the market’s board of directors has...
Top 7 Ways to Avoid Fluoride
This information has been provided courtesy of Sarvaa Superfood Should You Avoid Fluoride? In a world where chemicals are part of our daily experience, it is important to know which chemicals to avoid. Fluoride is one of the most present chemicals in our lives, and we are exposed to it through our food, water, and hygienic products. Fluoride is naturally present in many of our foods and water sources, but at a far lower level ppm...
Safe Support for Your Endocrine System and Hormones
One of the best ways to support your Endocrine System and Your Hormones – Adaptogens. Many of you may be wondering, what exactly is an adaptogen? And more to the point, what can they do for me today? Well, if you play hard or work hard, have kids, are over the age of 25, drive a car, use electronics or are exposed to any number of stressors, you may get some great benefits from Adaptogens! Adaptogens in the simplest terms,...
The Language of Your Body – Understanding Inflammation
This article was originally written by Derek Van Atta – Sarvaa Superfood There is one health factor that attributes to all forms of disease and discomfort. It also acts like a red flag, marking the spot in your body where healing is necessary. The Language of Your Body Your body has a language that doesn’t use words. Because this language is subtle, it is easy to confuse or entirely miss your body’s messages. And...
What is a superfood?
This information was originally published on SarvaaSuperfood.com Why should you eat superfoods? As living, breathing organisms, we need a wide variety of essential nutrients in order to function at our highest potential. By eating the foods that have the highest concentration of these nutrients we give our bodies the tools needed to do this. There have been many studies done on the implications that foods have on a spectrum of health...
Are Organic Foods Healthier?
This video and information was origonally posted on nutritionfacts.org Test tube studies show advantages of organic produce, such as better cancer cell growth suppression, but what about in people, not Petri dishes? This is a bit of an intermission in my five-part series on organic foods. So far I’ve covered the questions Are Organic Foods More Nutritious? and Are Organic Foods Safer? Next, I’m going to wrap it up with what I think...
How to make your own Fruit and Vegetable Wash
This video and information was originally posted on nutritionfacts.org This is a bit of an intermission in my five-part series on organic foods. So far I’ve covered the questions Are Organic Foods More Nutritious? and Are Organic Foods Safer? Next, I’m going to wrap it up with what I think the available science suggests is the bottom-line when it comes to choosing which type of produce to buy in the final two in the series: Are...
Benefits of Ginger for Menstrual Cramps
This video was originally posted on NutritionFacts.org An eighth of a teaspoon of ground ginger power is tested head-to-head against the leading drug for the alleviation of painful periods. Doctor’s Note I’ve touched on this effect before in Ginger for Nausea, Menstrual Cramps, and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Find out what else this amazing plant can do in: Reducing Radiation Damage With Ginger & Lemon Balm Which Spices Fight...
The 5 best foods to help recover from a bone fracture
This article was originally published by The Andrews Institute for Oth0paedic Sports Medicine Dealing with an orthopaedic fracture is never fun. It can be painful and even require surgery. Once people break bones, they instantly want to be better. While that cannot happen, certain foods and nutrients can help speed up the process. “When a bone first breaks, it needs a lot of energy to heal.” Understanding the healing...
SuperFruits: Nature’s Cure for Colds, Flu, and Inflammation!
SuperFruits? Hype or Fact? This post has been provided courtesy of Sarvaa Superfood, Durango. You know about blueberries, now double the potency and you’re talking about the top six SuperFruits. How do you benefit? Why are SuperFruits so underestimated? It’s because so few of us actually understand the wide array of awesome benefits from these fruits in our lives! Did you know that your skin, your hair, your nails, and...
Good Carbs vs Bad Carbs – 7 Important Myths & Tips
You’ve probably heard quite a bit lately about good carbs vs bad carbs. It’s a hot topic. And rightly so. The packaged food industry has heavily promoted bad carbs for 70 years! Why? Because they’re extremely profitable to them. On the other side of the topic we now have people who are afraid to eat half of an apple because some fruits contain bad carbs. Now, it’s not all black and white. On the contrary, the...
Turmeric Produces ‘Remarkable’ Recovery in Alzheimer’s Patients
Posted on: Monday, June 10th 2013 at 9:00 am Written By: Sayer Ji, Founder This article is copyrighted by GreenMedInfo LLC, 2015 Turmeric has been used in India for over 5,000 years, which is likely why still today both rural and urban populations have some of the lowest prevalence rates of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in the world. A recent study on patients with AD found that less than a gram of turmeric daily, taken for three...
Osteoporosis Is Scurvy of the Bone, Not Calcium Deficiency
Posted on: Thursday, August 9th 2012 at 5:00 am Written By: Suzanne Humphries, MD This article is copyrighted by GreenMedInfo LLC, 2014 “A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.”~Proverbs 17:22 It saddens me to see older women diagnosed with “osteopenia” or “osteoporosis” listening to their doctors and taking supplemental calcium and even problematic drugs called...
