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Home Cleaning Products Guide

Suppers facilitator Karen Nathan provides some insight, suggestions and recipes for less toxic home cleaning products:

Better Housekeeping: Be Green and Clean

Flavor. It’s everything when you’re trying to get people to give up favorite foods for the sake of their health. If the Suppers experience doesn’t rival the pleasure people get from artificially delicious processed foods that are keeping them sick, fat, depressed or addicted, we won’t be able to help them make the transition from how they eat now to how they need to eat to become well.

Contributed by Irma Jennings, CHC, Holistic Bone Coach and Suppers Facilitator; White Paper based on conversation with Dr. Lani Simpson

The test results you get on your DXA scan can be very confusing. So here’s the scoop on what you must know before your DXA test and the difference between T-scores and Z-scores.

DXA Test: Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry

1) When done correctly, bone density tests provide an important piece of information regarding your bone health. [i]

Have you taken actions that you thought would lift your mood, or cool your joint pain, or spare you the torture of never feeling satisfied on food? Perhaps your blood sugar numbers didn’t get better –- or maybe got even worse -– when you followed directions? Is your child still struggling with attention issues while you’re just not feeling sharp anymore, in spite of all your good behaviors?

It is highly possible that you are not making good matches between your problems and your solutions.

Understanding the difference between treats and triggers is an important step toward freeing yourself of unwanted eating and other unwanted behaviors that are driven by food. It calls into question conventional wisdom related to portion control, calories, and willpower. Like so many things at Suppers, we don’t need to do more research and deepen our understanding in order to flip the switch of healing. We do need to do our personal experiments and get support for behavior change, particularly those changes that reduce compulsive behaviors, poor impulse control, and addiction.

by Katalin Ferencz-Biro, PhD

What is the thyroid?

Anatomical position: The thyroid is a 2-inch-long, butterfly-shaped gland weighing less than 1 ounce. It is located in the front of the neck below the larynx. It has two lobes, one on either side of the windpipe.

Function of the thyroid:

Who is this group for?

A healthier life in Suppers for Sobriety requires only that you be willing to make good matches between your problems in the natural reality and personal solutions.

This document is the product of a workshop at Savory Spice Shop led by Andrew Appello, a Suppers Medical Advisor, and Dor. The purpose was to view the health considerations around salt in the context of the culinary and functional uses of salt. There is often some tension between cooks and health care practitioners, and this document tries to view salt in the spirit of Nutritional Harm Reduction, which is how just about everything is done at Suppers.