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Health + Wellness | September 30

Updated: Oct 13, 2024

+PREPARE+

Minerals, amino acids and collagen in chicken broth reduce inflammation and strengthen your immune system. Broth is also an excellent source of hydration. Chicken soup is comforting and nutritious.


Stock your pantry with chicken broth or make your own before the cold and flu season is upon us. Grab a few prepared favorite chicken soups as well. The last thing you want to do when you are sick is cook.


Chicken Stock - Weston Price Foundation


Nourishing Bone Broth with Sally Fallon Morell Step by Step Class - School of Traditional Skills


Make your own chicken bouillon with a dehydrated or freeze dryer - Homesteading Family


Slow Cooker Chicken Soup - Traditional Wellness™

Chicken Noodle Soup - Traditional Wellness™


Vegan or Vegetarian?

Nourish Herbal Broths - Mountain Rose Herbs

DIY Herbal Healing Broth - The Sacred Science





+SELF-CARE+

Fall is a great time to start new self care routines. Being kind to yourself is part of emotional wellness.


Self Care Fall Activities





+SCREEN+

Put your mind at ease and schedule a mammogram. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer affects one in eight women in the United States every year, and 2.3 million women in the world. Regular screening is encouraged for women over the age of 40 and sometimes younger if there is an increased cancer risk. Regular mammograms can find early signs of breast cancer. A mammogram is a x-ray of the breast.  A doctor called a radiologist who has special training will look at the X-ray for problems or early signs of breast cancer.


If you have questions talk to your primary care physician or gynecologist.





The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires most health insurers, and all new health insurance plans to pay for screen mammograms for women ages 40 and older with no out-of-pocket expenses.


National Breast Cancer Foundation

Helping Women Now Campaign





+COUNTDOWN+

Taylor Flannery of Household Management 101 has a free “stress free holidays” countdown challenge that she publishes every year. She says the goal is “planning and preparing for each of these holidays in a relaxed and stress-free way.” The holidays can be a challenging and stressful time of year with back to back holidays within 90 day span of time. She sends out weekly tasks to tackle as each holiday approaches so that you aren’t stressing about last minute details.


Her challenge starts October 5 with a PreChallenge task released on September 28th. The pre challenge task is creating a binder with To Do Lists, Calendars, Traditions, Gift Giving Planning Worksheets, and the Holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas Planners.


Check it out. Taylor has great tips to keep organized for the holidays.





+CREATE+

For some people, life purpose is connected to vocation and/or creative output. Working hard on meaningful projects can give people genuine satisfaction out of life. Purpose and creativity can give us personal fulfillment.


How to write Creative Life Purpose Statements. Creativity building exercise.


When people create things, or use their creativity it has deep personal meaning to them. Meaning and creativity allows people to be more authentic. Have you ever made or received a homemade gift? A gift that someone has used their creativity and hands to physically make something with meaning for you. It may be something you don’t need or ever wanted, but it means a lot. It means a lot because you know that person fulfilled their life purpose in a small little way with personal meaning into a gift for you. And if you’re the gift giver making that gift it means a lot. When you have made a homemade gift was it for someone that meant a lot to you? I bet it was.



As adults I think we overthink homemade gifts. Some of us non creative types forget we can all be creative. We compare ourselves to artists or people who have perfected a craft. I think we also shy away from homemade gifts because it will take too much time, or you’re worried about the monetary value of a homemade gift vs a bought gift. I’m pretty sure you could take $20 and make a way cooler gift for someone than you could buy a gift for $20.


I challenge you to make some homemade gifts this year. If it’s too much to make all your gifts that’s ok. Or if you just make one homemade gift. That’s ok. Dig into your creative side and make someone for someone you love. When you make that gift think about how much it means to you and how much joy it brings you to make something for that special someone. It may spark a side of you that you have been missing or hasn’t discovered. I hope it gives you more life purpose.





+CONSUME+


It’s National Organics Month!


Organic Label Claims


100% Organic - 100% organic ingredients

Organic - 95% or more are organic ingredients

Made with Organic - 70% or more are organic ingredients


“Prior to 2002, organic certifiers each had their own standards that they used when certifying organic produce and products. The standards were similar, but they were each different and were owned by the certifier. In 2002 the USDA National Organic Program took effect, and the NOP Final Rule became the one standard used for certifying organic products in the US. Since that time, when you pick up a product labeled organic you know that it was certified to the same standard as all other organic products, regardless of who certified it.” - Oregon Tilth



Trusted Labels on organic food and products to look for:


The Organic Content Standard “(OCS) is an international, voluntary standard that sets criteria for third-party certification of certified organic input and chain of ­­custody.”


Product certified USDA Organic has passed certification through the USDA.


Regenerative Organic Certification uses the UDA Organic as a baseline to collaborate with individuals, farmers, educators, researchers, policymakers, educators and businesses and unite top level certifications.



Can You Trust That Organic Label On Imported Food - NPR, Heard on All Things Considered, 5-Minute Listen


🔦Podcast Spotlight🔦

Beyond Labels Clips

with Dr Sina McCullough & Joel Salatin

Episode #154

August 15,2024

Beyond Sugar: The REAL Culprit Behind Chronic Disease with Dr. Chris Knobbe


Dr Sina has a PhD in Nutrition and a Bachelor’s in Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior and Joel Salatin is a world renowned organic Farmer. Together they have teamed up to empower people to live healthier, happier free lives. In their podcast they provide practical solutions and extensive knowledge in food, health, nutrition, medicine, herbs, exercise, homesteading, and agriculture.


They have a book together called Beyond Labels: A Doctor and a Farmer Conquer Food Confusion, One Bite at a Time. “In this “eye-opening book” they explore and explain the art of eating well. “They’ll help you figure out what to eat, how to find clean food and prepare it, and how to save money and time in the process.”


In this weekly podcast episode Dr Sina and Joel talk with Dr Chris Knobbe about sugar and its role behind all chronic disease. Dr Knobbe is a physician, public health advocate, researcher, ophthalmologist and professor. He is known for connecting Westernized diets to modern day diseases. His most recent book is The Ancestral Diet Revolution published in 2023. Dr. Knobbe is the Founder and Director of the Ancestral Health Foundation, a nonprofit organizations with goals of treating and preventing chronic disease.


Spotify Link


Apple Podcasts Link


Joel Salatin farm


Dr Sina


Dr Knobbe


Books

Beyond Labels: A Doctor and a Farmer Conquer Food Confusion, One Bite at a Time - McCullough and Salatin

The Ancestral Diet Revolution - Knobbe






Tinessa Johnsrud, HHP, CHNC, CWC

Traditional Wellness™ Consulting




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