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August is the best time to get outside ~ might as well start in your garden!
Divide perennials like hosta, poppy, lily, ornamental grass, and iris. Carefully loosen and lift plant out of ground and separate into smaller parts using a large garden spade. Replant in other areas or give as gifts to neighbors and friends. Doing this helps larger plants that tend to die in the middle.
Add some fall color if you’re ready! Adding mums are an amazing way to add that pop of color late in the summer. They are nectar-rich, attracting a variety of colorful pollinators including migrating butterflies! You can replace worn out annuals with mums and in most climates mums are a perennial.
As the growing season winds down weeds kick into high gear producing thousands of seeds. This is a good time, if you’ve been putting it off, to attack those weeds and be sure to pull them up by the roots.
Time to bring in any outdoor houseplants that may have been vacationing in the backyard. Add some organic fertilizer to set them up for a healthy winter.
Your herbs are at their peak ~ flavor and oils are most intense in late summer. Time to harvest! You can store herbs for later by cleaning, chopping, and placing them in water filled ice cube trays.
Thoroughly enjoy your time outdoors!
So many state and county fairs are held this month. The timing of many are set to coincide with the harvest season. And 4H club members proudly display their fruits and vegetables. Many towns have a weekly Farmer’s Market as well.
Keep an eye out for fairs near you.
The Annual Perseid Meteor Shower lights up the night sky this month. The peak days are August 12-13. However, you can see them for a couple of weeks before and after this date. Watch these little bits and pieces of space debris and dust as they enter the earth’s atmosphere and burn up. When you see one make a wish. As the words from a Disney song go “When you wish upon a star your dreams come true”.
Monday, Sept.11th (5:30-6:30pm)
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Check out our website to learn more about our Functionally Fit Program which combines functional medicine with evidence-based weight loss tools.
Call 603-328-8101 or email us to register.
Just eat less and exercise more and you will maintain a negative calorie balance and you will lose weight. There is just one problem with this math problem… there are several influences that affect calories in and calories out that result in a variable metabolic rate (the number of calories we burn). To a slow burner, the math does not add up. It seems like their metabolism is slower than the people around them. It feels like it takes more effort to get even a little movement on the scale. The fact is, our metabolic rate, the number of calories burned at baseline and with activity, is variable from person to person. So, what can we do to support someone who is a “slow burner” or who seemingly is maintaining a negative calorie balance but just not seeing results?
I like squeezing in nutrients anywhere that I can. Check out this salad dressing that gives a nutrition boost with zucchini! Don’t like zucchini? You can’t even taste it in this simple dressing recipe! Yield: about 1 cup
Ingredients
– ½ cup chopped raw zucchini
– 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
– 3 tablespoons raw apple cider vinegar
– 1 teaspoon fresh or dried dill
– ½ teaspoon sea salt
– 1 garlic clove (optional)
Instructions
Place all ingredients in a blender/food processor, blend until smooth & creamy. Store in a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid & refrigerate. Lasts for up to 10 days.
Add big beautiful flavor & nutrients! this recipe is packed with Parsley & Cilantro. Parsley is often labeled as the most powerful disease fighting plant. It’s wide variety of vitamins help with Bone Health, Eyes, may improve Heart Health, contains Cancer-fighting substances, Antioxidants & more! The take-away ~ eat your garnish! Some health benefits of Cilantro may include: Improved Brain Health, Reduced Anxiety, Lower Blood Suger, & protect against foodborne illnesses
Ingredients
– 1 cups fresh cilantro (leaves) (or replace with Parsley)
– 1 1/2 cup fresh parsley (leaves)
– 1/2 onion or shallot
– 1 tablespoon dried oregano
– 3 cloves garlic
– 6 organic green olives
– 3/4 cup olive oil
– 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
– 1 fresh lime (juice)
– 1 – 2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
– 1/2 – 1 teaspoons coarse salt
Instructions
Chop finely by hand or blend everything in a food processor until finely chopped. Transfer to an airtight container and refrigerate until ready to use.
Lasts in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.
When might nutritional IV therapy be helpful?
In the setting of gut irritation, increased intestinal permeability, or leaky gut. Sometimes we see that when a person is struggling with healing their leaky gut as a result of food sensitivities or imbalances of the gut bacteria or even medications, there are certain nutrients that are needed to help heal. It can be a circular situation where the nutrients are needed to heal but because of the gut issue those nutrients are unable to adequately be absorbed. It is typically after working with someone for a period of time that we both come to this conclusion and that is when we consider nutritional IV therapy.
We offer Vitamin C, Meyers Cocktail, Iron, & Glutathione.
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