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Mindful Eating: Squash Panini

This panini is filled with vibrant, colorful red peppers, zucchini, and yellow squash. We're doubling down on spreads with hummus on one side and sunflower pesto on the other. This recipe is filling and is satisfying whether you're making it for dinner, or splitting it up for a quick lunch. Even better, the process of making the spreads and filling will take less than an hour. You'll also have plenty leftover to make multiple sandwiches, or to save for later.

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Why You Need A Bread Maker

Making bread has been a fun, healthy new part of our food prep routine each week. Using a bread maker turns a challenging process into one that is incredibly simple, and we highly recommend getting a bread maker so you can start baking every day!

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The Benefits of Sleep

Sleep is essential to a healthy life. Your body requires sleep in the same way it needs oxygen, food, and water. There are incredible health benefits that come with a good night's sleep, and severe consequences to go along with a sustained lack of sleep. However, modern life throws myriad hurdles in the way on the quest to a good night's sleep. Whether it's a busy schedule, stress, kids and pets, or the dreaded cell phone notification, we all have something that keeps us from getting optimal sleep. There is hope, though. There are many simple things you can do to improve your nightly sleep. Even better, many of the fixes for better sleep are simple adjustments to routines, exercise, and diet.

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Healthy Eating: Salmon and Kelp Noodles

This delicious salmon recipe uses kelp noodles to deliver a unique texture and flavor. It is rich in iodine, a vital nutrient that many people are deficient in.

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Eating With The Seasons: Pumpkin Chili

This is a twist on a traditional beef chili, adding everyone’s favorite fall ingredients: pumpkin, and a “pumpkin spice” mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and allspice.

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Sweet Potato Oatmeal Cookies

We thought these cookies were so perfect as a healthy, sweet treat that we wanted to share them with everyone. These cookies can easily be dessert or a midday snack without ever making you feel guilty about their nutritional value. These are a superfood that will deliver essential vitamins and minerals, while still satisfying your sweet tooth.

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Supplements to Support the Respiratory System

While there are many ways you can avoid exposure and combat the symptoms once you contract a respiratory illness, few of them are as simple as adding supplements to your routine. These vital nutrients are a simple way to bolster the immune system. Simple supplements have been shown to do many things to combat respiratory illnesses, including reducing likelihood of getting sick, reducing the severity of symptoms when you do get sick, and even reducing the length of time you stay sick.

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Eating With The Seasons: Miso Eggplant

Miso eggplant is a quick, simple recipe with only a few ingredients. All of those ingredients are packed with flavor, making for a tangy, sweet, bitter, and slightly spicy dish that is perfect as an appetizer or main course crafted for the late summer seaon.

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Why Eating Organic Foods Matters

Organic foods are always made without GMOs, hormones, or antibiotics. They also require crops be grown without harmful pesticides, and without ionizing radiation or sewage sludge. Organic livestock are fed organic foods, allowed to graze, and given access to outdoor areas. All of these practices contribute to making safer, healthier foods.

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Benefits of Magnesium

Magnesium is an essential mineral that plays an important role in over 300 biochemical reactions in the body. Magnesium supports muscle and nerve function, helps regulate muscle contractions and nerve signals, energy production, and cardiovascular health.

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Eating With the Seasons: Szechuan Meatballs

Let’s get that out of the way first. This little pepper is my favorite ingredient in all of Chinese cooking, and there is truly nothing else like it. Szechuan peppercorn is one of those things you add to a dish that makes it fun to eat: there’s the initial hit of spice, and then a cooling, numbing sensation that carries through your entire mouth. This type of multi-sensory experience is what takes a dish from a way to get some nutrients on a weekday to an event that people talk about long after they’ve taken their last bite.

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7 Practices for Healthy Living in the Spring

In Chinese medicine one of the ways we assess health is by zooming out to notice patterns in nature and the relationship they have within the human body. We’ve noted that spring time has a strong relationship with the energy of the liver, the emotion of anger, the tendons, the eyes, the taste of sour, an expansive movement, and the color green. When the energy of the liver is in balance you are able to follow through with creative ideas, be assertive in making decisions and feel a healthy regulation of emotions. Balanced Liver energy will also shine in flexible and strong tendons, bright eyes, and healthy nails.

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Mindful Eating: Hemp Seed Banana Pancakes

This is a great vegan pancake recipe that makes a handful of health-minded swaps over the traditional pancake recipe. While we’re still using a traditional flour, we of course are using an organic one without any additives. Instead of eggs and milk, our binder and liquid are a banana and almond milk (side note: not all almond milks are the same, so look for one that is only made with almonds, water, and salt— no sweeteners or additives here either). We also swap out the standard granulated sugar for coconut sugar. As always, look for organic labels everywhere you can.

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Six Tips To Keep Your New Year's Health Resolutions On Track

Did you know that studies show 80% of New Year’s Resolutions fail by February? There’s one common mistake that leads to resolutions “failing”— and that’s setting expectations you can’t meet. That’s why we encourage setting obtainable, small goals that can build to bigger ones in the future.

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