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Integrative Family Nurse Practitioner

How to Succeed at Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

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

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

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

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, FNP-C, FAIHM

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

Twelve Foods to Always Buy Organic and Why To Grow Your Own!

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

A few weeks ago, I observed a good friend of mine preparing an area of his very small townhome yard for gardening.  I was pleasantly surprised when he informed me that his intentions were not to grow flowers, but vegetables.  I greatly applauded his efforts and this is why:  By growing his own food source […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: buy local, detoxificiation, disease prevention, farmer's market, health, healthy eating, organic, reduce risk of death

Why Purify? Lose Weight AND Feel Good!

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

Learn why we gain weight back or struggle to lose weight despite good efforts, ways to avoid and reduce exposure to harmful toxins, and how to clean the body of toxins while effectively losing weight.

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: detoxificiation, disease prevention, healthy eating, weight-loss

Eating Well (and Healthy) Secrets for the Holidays!

By Renae Blanton, MSN, FNP-C, FAIHM

Test your knowledge! Post comments and answers either in our comments sections or on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sonas-Integrative-Medical-Center/241621760305)  to the questions at the end of the article and you’ll be entered to win a $10 gift card from April’s Garden! Contest ends 12/31/11. Eating Well (and Healthy) Secrets for the Holidays! I love the holidays!  […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: health, healthy eating, holidays, organic, sugar-substitutes

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