As Women’s Health Awareness Month comes to a close, I will finish this topic by encouraging all you beautiful women out there to pay attention to your bodies and get regular check-ups to stay well. Here is a link to a website with information on how to get a free pap smear to screen for

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All women should examine their breasts once a month, ideally right after menses. Here is a link to a website that gives instructions on how to do a self breast exam. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6x_How_to_perform_a_breast_self_exam_5.asp You should also have an annual breast exam by a doctor and a pap smear to screen for cervical cancer.   After age

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July is national women’s health awareness month. Breast cancer is a major women’s health concern worth talking about, so here goes: Two of my friends have become aware of breast lumps after an injury to their breasts. I encouraged both of them to get mammograms and both of them ended up being positive for breast

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Fermentation has existed as a way to preserve food for thousands of years. With the advent of refrigeration, fermenting has become a lost art.  Luckily, there is a renaissance occurring and fermented foods are gaining in popularity once again.  The best resource I have to share with you is www.wildfermentation.com, Sandor Katz’s website.  I highly

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I am back from a trip to the Southwestern US.  My husband and I drove to Santa Fe New Mexico and visited our friends there in their new hand-built, sustainable home powered by solar panels.  We camped in the mountains for a week and taught workshops on plant identification for food and medicine at a

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