10 Signs Your Kids are Lacking Nutrients, Your Walnuts are Drugs, the Last Farmer, Smart Supermodel and LOTS More (Monday Continued)

Monday Mix-Up Continued… (Click here to go back to page 1.)

Here's what I've got for you this week…

Did you see this guy in the latest Wise Traditions Journal? Will Dean is an Olympic athlete who loves traditional food and the Weston A. Price Foundation! “He keeps it simple. No big secrets or obsessive calorie counting, not even a strict diet regime. Dean believes in eating his three good meals a day (albeit they’re likely twice the size of yours or mine), and a few healthy snacks between workouts. His food values, if you will, closely follow the principles of Dr. Weston A. Price: simple and unrefined. Eating well, suggests Dean, doesn’t have to be complicated, nor should it consume you.” Read more here.

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Have you signed up for the weight loss conference yet? Today and tomorrow's FREE talks include Dr. Kharrazian on “how to heal your thyroid naturally”, and Jimmy Moore (who doesn't love Jimmy?!) on “ketosis, the misunderstood key to weight loss”. Click here to sign in and then you'll be emailed the info right away so you can listen/watch. Just for signing in, you'll also get this free guide: “The Top 10 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight”. (Note the free sessions coming up later this week: “Overcoming eating disorders with love, hugs, and bacon”, “How to save money and eat healthy as a family”, and “Overcoming the mental battles of weight loss”.)

This supermodel is as wise as she is beautiful: She eats and promotes a traditional, whole foods diet, including raw, grass fed butter and is a fan of the Nourishing Traditions cookbook too! Read about her here.

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What do you think of this list? In an age of “sick is the new normal”, we don't have to settle when it comes to our own kids, check out the 10 signs of nutritional deficiency in children.

I think these were the most anticipated real foodie cookbooks of 2014: Nourished Kitchen, Nourishing Broth, and The Heal Your Gut Cookbook. Do you own any of these, and if so, what do you think?

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Land O' Lakes is spending BUCKS to prevent GMO labeling. Find out who the other big players are in this dirty game.

Oh baby, this Facebook post got people riled up on both sides of the vaccine issue, what's your take on it? (The comments from people naming their big degrees get under my skin a little, because somehow that's supposed to impress us? I'll go with common sense every time, thank you very much.)

“Your Walnuts are Drugs.” Huh?! “…the FDA sent Diamond Foods a…personal letter, aggressively stating that: ‘Your walnut products are drugs…they may not legally be marketed in the United States without an approved new drug application.'” Click here to get the link and read the heated Facebook conversation.

The photos here are so beautiful, they brought tears to my eyes: The last farmer: At 94, one rural Missouri farmer continues to till his land. “Ninety-four-year-old Charles Bradley has cared for his family’s 450-acre land in Weston, Mo., all his life. “It’s altogether a different situation,” he says of farming as he reflects on the past. “There were many farms up and down the road, but now it’s operated by one fella who has 2,000 to 3,000 acres. Back in the old days, if we had 200 acres we had a lot of ground.” “Most people want to retire, I never wanted to retire.”

Boston Nurses Speak Out Against Mandatory Flu Shots – when will the madness end??? Here are my posts on this issue.

Here's my weekly reminder to be sure and look around my archive page if you haven't lately. Yes, someday I'll make that and my recipe-finder page a little prettier and easier to navigate (ideas anyone?), but for now, just peruse if you’d like to.

I’ll see you here later this week for Real Food Wednesday! Did you know that participating is a great way to get more traffic to your blog OR to learn more about Real Food and get some great new recipes, too?!

Hi, I’m Kelly