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This Statistic Really Surprised Me About Fast Food (+ Quick Alternatives)

Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

I am always finding something interesting in the medical literature, but I have to say this one surprised even me. A study, published by the National Center for Health Statistics, found that on any given day, over 1/3 of all adults in america aged 40 – 59 years old (37%) are consuming fast food. One out of three! That’s 85 million adults eating fast food on any given day. And sadly, for younger Americans that number is even higher — almost half of Americans (45%) aged 20 – 45 years old are eating fast food on any given …

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Nov 1 2021

Uplifting Ideas To Keep Your Spirits High During A Pandemic

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

Over the past month, I’ve blogged a few times about coronavirus prevention and treatment ideas, from a holistic physician’s perspective. So today I want to add onto these tips with some less commonly heard, wonderfully uplifting ideas that you can implement (yes, even while practicing social distancing!) to feel strong, centered and resilient. Today let’s go way beyond the “wash your hands & isolate yourself” recommendation that you have heard a thousand times and add some important tips gleaned from the medical literature after studying the course and resolution of earlier pandemics. And yes, there have always …

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Mar 23 2020

Hang In There. There Are Lots Of Solutions That Are Within Your Control.

Grounding, Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Organic Lifestyle, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

Today I’m sending out just a quick newsletter letting you know that I am working on a new Pandemic Solutions blog post that I will send out to you next week. In it will be a list of so many different ideas on things you can do to protect yourself and your loved ones — and not the typical “wash your hands and stay indoors” advice you are already inundated with, but fresh uplifting ideas that you can do from the comfort of your own home to feel strong, centered and resilient. With schools closing and social …

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Mar 16 2020

8 Ways To Make Grounding Instantly Easier, More Powerful

Grounding, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

Today I want to share with you a super informal video I made for you. It’s perfect for anyone who is sick of hearing: “just go barefoot!“ Well what if you don’t want to go barefoot? What if the ground outside your home is littered, hazardous, sprayed with chemicals and pesticides, full of fire ant mounds or rocks or broken glass? What if you have mobility issues, what if you can’t stand or walk, what if you are recovering from a major illness and the thought of going barefoot is so overwhelming you’d rather not ground at all? Or …

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Aug 5 2019

Don’t Use ADHD Meds (This Works Better Anyway…)

Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

There is no longer any convincing evidence left that kids should be considered for Rx methylphenidate (Ritalin, Concerta, etc…) In fact, a new study now urges physicians to use caution when prescribing these medications and reveals that there is no data to support the use of these prescriptions, especially in light of the serious side effects they can cause. Published on Nov 25, 2015 in the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, researchers looked at over 185 randomized control trials that evaluated the use of ADHD meds in over 12,000 children in the USA, Canada and Europe. The details: The …

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Jan 19 2016

Earth Day Ideas That Will Also Improve Your Health

Grounding, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

This Wednesday is Earth Day! And the ultimate celebration for this? Let’s get Earthing! This Wednesday, we can connect to the planet with gratitude *and* improve our health — simultaneously. Combining health and harmony with the earth and your own Well Being… it’s a natural fit all the way around. So today, for you, here are a few fun Earth Day Ideas: Idea #1: Make Earth Day into a Personal Healing Retreat You can use the healing power of connecting directly to the Earth for as long as possible this Wednesday and finish the day feeling better than …

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Apr 20 2015

My Valentines

Healing Artwork, Positive Parenting, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

Dearest Reader, Happy Valentine’s Day this weekend. My Valentine’s wish for you is that you *know* and *feel* that love surrounds you. In ways both ***Seen*** and ***Unseen*** In ordinary ways and in extraordinary ways. In ways that are obvious and known to us and also in ways that are hidden and unknown… … in ways perhaps we can’t fully realize until our lives are over and we return into ALL THAT WE ARE and can understand from a broader perspective. This Valentine’s Day, I want to share with you a glimpse of my own …

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Feb 9 2015

This Statistic Really Surprised Me About Fast Food (+ Quick Alternatives)

Uplifting Ideas To Keep Your Spirits High During A Pandemic

Hang In There. There Are Lots Of Solutions That Are Within Your Control.

8 Ways To Make Grounding Instantly Easier, More Powerful

Don’t Use ADHD Meds (This Works Better Anyway…)

Earth Day Ideas That Will Also Improve Your Health

My Valentines

You Can Feel Better Than You Do Right Now!

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