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3 Simple Strategies to Stay Healthy Throughout the Holidays

The holidays are a wonderful time of year. The holiday season is filled with celebrations, parties, feasts, gift-giving, gift-receiving, and maybe some travel, in-laws, visitors, and more. I love the holiday season and look forward to it every year. I want to share 3 simple strategies with you, so you too can lean into the joy of the holidays and stay healthy throughout the holidays too.

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Prebiotics, Probiotics, and Postbiotics

Microbes live on your skin and inside your body. It’s been estimated that about 90-95% of these microbes live in your gut. The number of microbes increases throughout your GI tract with the majority found in your colon. These microbes also known as the gut microbiota, are incredibly important for health. In this article you’ll learn about prebiotics, probiotics, and postbiotics.

3 important reasons to eat fermented foods and where to find them

People around the globe have been fermenting foods for thousands of years. In fact, it was one of the earliest methods of food preservation. Many of the fermented foods are made from dairy products or vegetables like yogurt, kefir, cheese, saurkraut, kimchi, and pickles, but there are many others like tempeh, miso, soy sauce, kombucha, kvass, sake, wine, vinegar, beer, hard cider, mead, sourdough bread, and others.

Cultured Vegetables

For me, this summer has been a beautiful blur of fruit picking (strawberries, raspberries, cherries, blueberries, peaches, etc.), food preservation (freezing, canning, fermenting, etc.), cooking, gardening, working with nutrition clients, teaching classes, camping, enjoying some down time, and chasing around a toddler who can climb just about anything the second you turn your back. Now …

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