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09/27/2025

How Healthy Are You Eating? Book Your Whole Body Health Assessment Today!

09/26/2025

There’s nothing like a glass of wine🍷
But is it right for your body?

Discover What Alcohol Beverages You May Be Sensitive Too Today @ Natural Medicine Of Palm Beach.

09/26/2025

09/26/2025

At Natural Medicine of Palm Beach we believe your body was designed to heal itself. Sometimes it just needs the right support. From balancing hormones to helping discover root causes our holistic approach helps you feel your best! Book your appointment Today!

09/26/2025

09/25/2025

It’s almost October Have You Booked Your Whole Body Health & Wellness Assessment? We Look At The Body From A Different Perspective.

08/06/2025

Why Pilates? Because strength isn’t just about muscles. 💫
This mindful movement method helps you:
✨ Build core strength
🌀 Improve flexibility & posture
💨 Enhance breath control
🧠 Boost body awareness
🌿 Reduce stress & tension

Pilates meets you where you are—and helps you move better through everything you do.

💬 Tried it yet? What’s your favorite benefit?

08/06/2025

Protein: It’s not just for gym goals 💪
Think beyond muscles—your body needs protein to thrive:
✨ Support detox pathways
🧠 Fuel cognitive function
🔥 Power cellular repair & metabolism

Plant-based? No problem. You don’t have to rely on tofu alone.

Here are some unexpected sources of plant protein to keep your meals vibrant and functional:

🥭 Guava – ~4g per cup (yes, fruit!)
🌱 Spirulina – ~4g per tbsp (tiny but mighty)
🌾 Buckwheat – ~6g per cup (gluten-free too!)
🎃 Pumpkin seeds – ~9g per ¼ cup (snack-worthy)
🥦 Broccoli – ~4g per cup (your mom was right)
🍅 Sun-dried tomatoes – ~8g per cup (hello flavor)

🔁 It’s about cumulative nutrition, not perfection. Every bite counts.

💬 Drop a 🔍 if you learned something new—let’s level up the plant plate together!

This content is for educational purposes only and not medical advice. Please consult your provider for individualized care.
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09/04/2024

Discover What Your Body Is Trying To Tell You!

01/14/2023

Delicious, Zero Sugar Recipes

You can never have enough delicious recipes that will light up your taste buds but won’t spike your blood sugar. Here are some favorite recipes for quick reference.
Chocolate Chip & Almond Butter Edible Cookie Dough Recipe

Ingredients
1 1/2 cups Almond flour
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/2 cup ghee or European butter
1 teaspoon RxSugar® Vanilla Syrup
2 tablespoons almond butter
1 cup of RxSugar® Crystal Sugar
1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar free chocolate chips

Instructions
Mix all ingredients in a bowl and store in refrigerator until the ghee or butter solidifies.

Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.
Can be frozen for a month in an airtight container.

No Sugar Keto Gluten-Free Macaroons
Macarons
3 egg whites (room temperature)
1 cup RxSugar® Crystal Sugar
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 1/2 cup almond flour
1/8 teaspoons of butter rum food flavoring
1/8 teaspoon of RxSugar® Organic Chocolate Syrup
Food Coloring (2 drops of yellow gel food coloring was used in this picture)
Stabilized Chocolate Whip Recipe
1 cup of RxSugar® Crystal Sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/8 teaspoons cream of tartar
2 cups heavy whipping cream

Instructions
Whip 3 egg whites in mixer until egg whites start to turn white.
Gradually add in sifted RxSugar®
Add cream of tartar
Add chocolate syrup and butter rum (any food flavoring will work)
Keep whipping egg whites until you are able to turn mixing bowl upside down without spilling.

Sift almond flour into egg mix and continue to fold almond flour until everything is blended in.

Once all mixed, pour batter into pipping bag and pipe onto parchment paper or rubber mat on cookie sheet.

Bake at 350 for 15 to 17 minutes.
Allow macarons to completely cool off before piping cream in the center.

01/13/2023

Is Friday the 13th Really Hazardous to Your Health?

Today is Friday the 13th. It's okay to admit this date gives you a twinge of anxiety. Bad things happen on Friday the 13th, right? As many as 21 million Americans will change their behavior today because of superstition. They won't go to the mall. They won't set foot on airplanes. Why? It's called paraskevidekatriaphobia: a morbid or irrational fear of Friday the 13th. An entire horror film category is based on this date. Part XII - yes, #12 - in the eponymous movie series was released last month, opening #1 at the box office. The cost of all this fear is estimated around $750 million per day in lost business.

So, what's the truth? Does Friday the 13th bring bad luck? Is this date hazardous to your health? I've spent the last few years studying who lives and dies in all kinds of everyday situations and crises. Along the way, I bumped into the fascinating science of superstition and Friday the 13th. It turns out there's some good news, some bad news and one thing you can definitely do to improve your chances if you're afraid of black cats.

1. The Good News
On the bright side, a recent study suggests that Friday the 13th is actually safer than the average Friday. Dutch researchers with the Center for Insurance Statistics looked at traffic accidents, fires and thefts and found there were fewer incidents on Friday the 13th than regular Fridays. Do people drive and behave more carefully on Friday the 13th? Or do they just stay home to avoid fate? "I find it hard to believe that it is because people are preventatively more careful," a Dutch statistician explains, "but statistically speaking, driving is a little bit safer on Friday 13th."

2. The Bad News
On the dark side, a Finnish study in 2002 found that women in particular have a 63 percent greater risk of dying in traffic accidents on Friday the 13th than on regular Fridays. Simo Nayha, the Finnish researcher, believes that fear causes them to crash. "It is not inconceivable that on Friday the 13th," Nayha writes, "women who are susceptible to superstitions obsess that something unfortunate is going to happen, which causes anxiety and the subsequent degradation of mental and motor functioning."

The Finnish study is supported by earlier data published in the British Medical Journal. Researchers examined auto accidents on Friday the 6th and Friday the 13th over a three year period. "Friday 13th is unlucky for some," they concluded. "The risk of hospital admission as a result of a transport accident may be increased by as much as 52 percent. Staying at home is recommended."

3. Beware of #4, Not #13
Professor David Phillips is a sociologist at the University of California, San Diego who loves to investigate phenomena like the fear of Friday the 13th. After examining 47 million computerized death certificates, he found no spike in "white mortality" on the thirteenth of every month, a general date of alarm for superstitious people who suffer from triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13).

However, Phillips noticed a surprising death spike on the 4th of every month and he coined an elegant name for it: the Baskerville Effect. It comes from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles in which a character suffers a fatal heart attack after being terrorized by a demonic dog.

On the fourth of every month, Phillips says, there's a spike in coronary-related fatalities among Americans of Japanese and Chinese ancestry. Across the United States, he found 13 percent more Asian American cardiac-related deaths on the fourth than expected. In California where these populations are concentrated, he discovered 27 percent more deaths.

In Mandarin, Cantonese, and Japanese, the words for "four" and "death" are almost identical, Phillips says, and many Asians are superstitious about the number. Indeed, in hospitals and hotels in the Far East, the number 4 is avoided just like the number 13 in parts of the Western world.

Phillips tested and rejected all sorts of theories to account for the death peak on the fourth of every month. In the end, he concluded that fear connected to the number 4 was the only plausible explanation. "The Baskerville effect exists both in fact and in fiction," he declared in the British Medical Journal.
Bottom Line

You might want to exercise a little extra caution on Friday the Thirteenth (or the 4th of every month). But you don't need to be afraid or stay home. Indeed, if you're fearful of anything, you should watch out for other people who suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia. If possible, try to avoid them on the highways or the sidewalk. After all, it's not the day or date that will get you. It's the fear.
Good luck out there today...

01/12/2023

Food Quality vs. Quantity

The classic approach to weight management has emphasized the need to balance the number of calories consumed with the number of calories burned. Even as popular diets become more nuanced—to restrict carbohydrates or other foods—most agree that nobody will lose weight if they eat too much food.

Still, many nutritionists and holistic practitioners emphasize the importance of food quality over quantity. They argue, for example, that eating 100-calories of organic quinoa is superior to eating 100-calories of cookies. The argument seems reasonable, but has it ever been tested?

A study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in the summer of 2019 aimed to settle the debate over food quality vs. quantity. Researchers admitted 20 healthy adults to the NIH Clinical Center to stay for four weeks. Participants were randomized to receive an ultra-processed diet or unprocessed diet for two weeks and then the alternate diet for the second two weeks.

The ultra-processed diet included foods that many people consider to be healthy, such as Honey Nut Cheerios, Yoplait yogurt, and precooked frozen eggs. The unprocessed diet included foods such as oatmeal, roast beef, Greek yogurt, fresh eggs, and barley. The ultra-processed and unprocessed meals were matched to provide equivalent quantities of calories, macronutrients, sugar, sodium, and fiber. Participants were instructed to consume as much or as little as they desired.

The NIH researchers found that people who were presented with ultra-processed foods tended to consume more calories and carbohydrates but not protein. Weight changes correlated with energy intake, such that those consuming the ultra--processed diet gained weight (~0.9 pounds over two weeks), and those consuming the unprocessed diet lost weight (~0.9 pounds over two weeks).
The results of this study suggest that when higher quality and unprocessed foods are available, people naturally tend to eat less.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.