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Healing Overeating Coach & Educator — Trauma-informed — 1-1 sessions

Joined November 2007
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New study shows that people who follow plant-based diets—especially those that include healthy fruits, vegetables, and whole grains—have a 26% lower risk of dying from various causes. vegnews.com/2024/1/meat-urin…
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Shifting to a plant-based diet has a high potential for reducing carbon footprints and mitigating climate change, as well as improving human health. pcrm.org/good-nutrition/vega…
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🚨Good news alert🚨 A new study finds that women who consume a plant-based diet in midlife are less likely to experience cognitive decline. vegnews.com/vegan-news/plant…
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A lot of us have struggled with acne or other skin issues that hammer our self esteem. Small dietary tweaks can make all the difference. vegnews.com/vegan-fashion-be…
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“I can face the winter with calm. Crisp and sparkling days, long pleasant evenings, cheery fires. Good work shall be done this winter. Life shall be lived well. The end of the summer is not the end of the world. Here’s to October.” ~A.A.Milne #October #October1 #nature
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If food is medicine, think of plant foods as the most powerful medicine in your farmacy. Their vast array of colors represents more than 25,000 beneficial chemicals.
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I hate to break it to you....alcohol is one of the biggest ways to sabotage your physical & mental health. One study showed after 30 days of no booze: 71% slept better 67% had more energy 58% lost weight 57% had better concentration 54% had better skin The choice is yours 🤷‍♂️
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The European Union bans nearly 2500 cosmetic ingredients and the US FDA prohibits merely 11 🤯. What’s wrong with this picture? 🤔 l
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People who follow a plant-based diet account for 75% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than those who eat more than 3.5 ounces of meat a day, according to new research. A vegan diet also results in significantly less harm to land, water and biodiversity. nyti.ms/3pPKKfi
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"What our work says is even in the worst case scenarios, the environmental footprint of not only vegan diets but low meat diets are much, much better than high meat consuming diets," said Peter Scarborough, an Oxford professor who led the study. nyti.ms/3Y4Ms9h
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“We are like a tree whose roots divide and subdivide again and again as they spread outward. Our neighbours are the same. Their roots too spread and interlace with ours. Our trunks are separate but beneath the soil an inextricably tangled network of fibres.” ~ C.R.Milne
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One of the most important abusive relationships we need to transform, is the one that we have with ourselves.
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"Fragrance" is an umbrella term that can include any combination of nearly 4000 chemicals, including endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, and allergens. You literally have no idea what you're slathering on every day.
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I agree 🍃💚
"Fasting and natural diet, though essentially unknown as a therapy, should be the first treatment when someone discovers that he or she has a medical problem." - Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
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Alcohol consumption has been associated with excessive mortality from cancer for more than a century. Even at low levels of intake, it can cause cancer–mostly head, neck, and gastrointestinal cancers in men and breast cancer in women. bit.ly/3dodgIz
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