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Clean Eating Peanut Butter Oatmeal Recipe

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I don’t know about you, but peanut butter is pretty close to heaven for me. If I’m in the right mood, nothing other than peanut butter will do. I mean, what’s not to love? The funny party is, I don’t… Read more → from The Gracious Pantry http://ift.tt/2xSUXLK

Autoimmunity Factors: The Question of Th1 and Th2 Dominance

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With autoimmune conditions, the most universally effective strategy you can employ is to reduce the inflammation response in the body. Eat Primal. Stop overtraining . Stop shortchanging sleep. Reduce stress . While going Primal slashes pro-inflammatory inputs and provides the body with ample anti-inflammatory influences, some folks benefit from—at least temporarily—taking it a few steps further with specific autoimmune protocols . But what if you have been taking all these steps and your body is still not responding? Readers occasionally ask me about Th1 and Th2 dominance in relation to autoimmunity. What does it mean if you are T1 or T2 dominant? What nutrients respond best to both? Researchers are gaining a better understanding of cytokines and T helper cells and their role in immune responses. Let’s take a closer look. What Is Th1 and Th2 Dominance? Generally speaking, autoimmune conditions play out through imbalances in the immune system. Frankly, the research out there regard

Flourless Chocolate Chip Cookies {Gluten-Free and Amazing!}

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If you’ve tried a million chocolate chip cookie recipes out there trying to find the best one, look no further. Not only do these blow other cookies out of the water, but they are made entirely without flour! It’s pretty amazing that you can make a crispy, chewy, tasty cookie without any flour, but you really can.  One ingredient I try to limit from my diet is refined flour. Typical flour is milled discarding all the essential nutrients the original grain contained. The heat that is generated to crush the grain into flour destroys any vitamin or mineral normally found in the the grain, leaving a white powdery product devoid of any life. It’s essentially dead food. So they have to “enrich” it back by adding in synthetic vitamins and minerals. The next part is even scarier because fresh milled flour usually isn’t acceptable for consumption because of the look, feel and smell of it. The FDA has approved over 60 chemicals for manufacturers to use to help these aesthetics and the she

Wedding: The Reception

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All of our photos were taken by Sarah Cramer Shields of Cramer Photo. Follow her online and on Instagram ! As cocktail hour wound down, it was time for the reception and dinner! There were twin highchairs for the two baby Emersons who attended our wedding, one on each side of the family! They were the queens of the night. Flowers Our tables were dressed by our florist, Sandy Goodson of  Verde Natural Florals . I used my grandmother’s vintage pitcher collection for the floral arrangements, along with the wooden cheese boxes that my mom and grandmother passed down to me over the years. The lanterns and burlap table runners were loaned to us by our friends Erin and Ben from their wedding! I bought the pilar candles and filled votives on Amazon. The place cards matched our invites and were from Minted. Each place also had a custom napkin I ordered from the Dot and Army Etsy store.  (The same store that did the custom napkins for my sister’s wedding !) They

What I Ate Wednesday – Orangetheory Edition

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Hi, guys! A bunch of you said that you like seeing what I eat in a day (aka “Meals in Monday” or “What I Ate Wednesday), so I plan to keep this type of post alive on CNC. I’m always interested to see what other people eat before and after their workouts, so I thought I’d share how I fueled my Orangetheory workout yesterday. In general, I don’t change my eating habits around workouts all that much, but I do sometimes switch things up, depending on the workout and how I’m feeling. With that, here’s how I fueled and refueled my Orangetheory workout! 7:30 AM: Half of a Munk Pack Protein Cookie If I work out at 8:30 or 9:00 AM (at KFIT or CrossFit), I typically eat a full breakfast a couple of hours before class. Yesterday, Quinn and I were running behind and OTF wasn’t until 11:15 AM, so I ate half of a cookie to hold off my hunger until I could eat breakfast. I picked a Munk Pack Protein Cookie because 1) it was easily accessible and 2) not made with weird ingredients like some protei