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Saturated Fat Does NOT Increase Mortality

Grounding, Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

This week, many of us are heading into the holidays. And as you head into a week of parties and connection and warmth and pot lucks and FOOD… I can think of no better holiday gift than this: To share with you, directly from the medical literature, the truth that saturated fat does NOT increase mortality. It’s not about the fat… saturated fat intake does not increase rate of death. It’s about the inflammation and the long term damage that inflammation does to your blood vasculature (and your entire body, from your gut lining to your …

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Dec 21 2015

Holiday Eating Without Guilt: Your Top 4 Go-To Party Foods

Chakra Health, Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

Holiday stress isn’t all just about juggling the social commitments, traveling or picking out just the right gift. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, temptation everywhere, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. If there was ever a time that people worry about their weight, it’s during the holidays. How to navigate this tricky but wonderful time of comfort food, decadent desserts and candies? Here are some of my very favorite holiday party foods that I never ever restrict: 1) Chocolate! Shown to support heart …

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Dec 7 2015

7 Ways To Feel Hopeful Even Under Incredible Stress

Grounding, Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

Mid-winter is the perfect time to post these tips, as often it is in the darkest of winter, post-holidays, that we can feel most bleak. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here is how to remain hopeful even during times of immense stress and darkness. To retain hope increases resiliency, and is one of the best ways to persevere through any type of adversary in life, whether that be a personal tragedy, a health crisis or a series of financial stressors (or all three, as they often travel together.) As I recently blogged …

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Jan 5 2015

The Gift Of Health: Holiday 2014 Limited Edition

Grounding, Healing Artwork, Intuitive Medicine / By Laura Koniver, MD

Did you know that every single thing on my website and in my shop comes directly from me? I’ve written every word… Painted every picture… Hand shipped every single order… Personally led every health class… It always makes me smile when someone fills out my website contact form asking for a staff member to get back to them… It’s not a staff member who takes care of you… it’s me! It’s my honor and privileged to support your healing all year long through my newsletter and blog and website. If you feel I’ve helped uplift your …

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Nov 17 2014

Independence Day Gratitude

Healthy Mindframe, Positive Parenting, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

We love the 4th of July!!!! Last year as part of our homeschooling journey I read the Declaration of Independence to my children on the 4th of July. We discussed the meaning of the word choices in this declaration, the importance of the risk and the stand that our forefathers took in proclaiming their independence… and the sacrifices they made to lay the foundation of the country we live in today. “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, …

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Jul 1 2013

Winter Checklist — are you pooping, sleeping, eating, hibernating enough?

Grounding, Healthy Weight, Intuitive Medicine / By Laura Koniver, MD

Here are all the things I have pulled together over the years to keep me feeling my best during the darkest month of the year. And with Winter Solstice coming at the end of the week, this is the perfect time to make sure we are doing all we can to feel our best and slow down and care for our inner spark while the world sleeps on around us. It’s okay to take these winter months slower, to tend to our inner needs more, and to make sure we are getting lots and lots of sleep. It’s not …

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Dec 17 2012

Ideas Galore — holiday gifts that are meaningful, supportive… even free!

Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’m often asked what my fav holiday gift ideas are… …how I celebrate the joy of the season with my own family and what items I love and gift most around the holidays. It’s tempting to go for cutesy packaging and shiny sale signs in every window… and it’s also easy feel like we need to give in large quantity to adequately express our love to those closest to us… but that is simply not true. In my family, we each get four gifts. I’m sure you’ve heard this rhyme before — it’s something we truly take to heart: …

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Nov 19 2012

Saturated Fat Does NOT Increase Mortality

Holiday Eating Without Guilt: Your Top 4 Go-To Party Foods

7 Ways To Feel Hopeful Even Under Incredible Stress

The Gift Of Health: Holiday 2014 Limited Edition

Independence Day Gratitude

Winter Checklist — are you pooping, sleeping, eating, hibernating enough?

Ideas Galore — holiday gifts that are meaningful, supportive… even free!

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