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Integrative Family Nurse Practitioner

How to Succeed at Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions

By Renae Blanton, MSN, ANP

As a family practitioner, I spend many hours coaching and coaxing patients to make changes in their diet, exercise habits, lifestyle, and their levels of stress.  I would be very surprised if any reader out there is unaware that the key to health lies in these habits and behaviors and not so much in the […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: disease prevention, exercise, health, healthy eating, reduce risk of death, weight-loss

How to Burn Fat Nine Times Faster and Lose Weight!

By Renae Blanton, MSN, ANP

By working out this way, one is able to burn more fat and calories than just going along at the same slow steady pace – the physiologic effects of this type of workout will encourage the body to burn fat for almost 24 hours after the workout.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: blood pressure, disease prevention, exercise, health, heart disease, reduce risk of death, stroke, weight-loss

Seven-a-day Keeps the Weight Away and Other Ways to Thrive the Holidays

By Renae Blanton, MSN, ANP

The good news: Americans only gain, on average, one pound from all the over indulgence during the holiday season. The bad news: We don’t lose it – ouch.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: disease prevention, exercise, health, healthy eating, holidays, weight-loss

Natural Ways to Treat or Prevent High Blood Pressure: Part I

By Renae Blanton, MSN, ANP

What if someone was to tell you that treating your high blood pressure with medication may not necessarily equate to a reduced risk of having a heart attack or stroke?  Yes, I have opened up a Pandora’s Box with that question – but there is mounting evidence that this may be true and I encourage […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: anti-aging, blood pressure, disease prevention, exercise, health, healthy eating, heart attack, heart disease, reduce risk of death, weight-loss

Want Faster Recovery and Better Endurance Or Just General Good Health? Try the IV!

By Renae Blanton, MSN, ANP

As an integrative practitioner of family medicine, in addition to working with chronically ill people using intravenous (IV) nutrition, I have worked with athletes to improve their performance and to speed their recovery. The benefits of IV nutrition are immeasurable and there is very little risk.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: anti-aging, auto-immune disorders, celiac disease, colds, detoxificiation, disease prevention, exercise, health, heart disease, men's health, natural remedies

Don’t Break Your Heart, Go Honky Tonking!

By Renae Blanton, MSN, ANP

I was sitting down at my kitchen table a few Saturdays ago when my phone rings.  It was a friend doing the proverbial trap he is good at.  He says, “What are you doing?”,   “Nothing”, I reply. “Well then, you have no excuse to get down here to the Grange to hear us play!”  Ha! […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: anti-aging, dancing, disease prevention, exercise, health, heart disease, reduce risk of death

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