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Paula Miller

About Paula Miller

Paula is a homeschooling mom of six. Several family health issues involving candida, food allergies, and Lyme Disease have created a passion to understand how our God-created bodies thrive or deteriorate based on what we put in them. She is a Certified Health Specialist and Level 3 Metabolic Effect Nutritional Consultant who coaches those with recurring candida and stubborn fat to heal their gut and shrink their waist at Whole Intentions.com. You can touch base with her on Facebook, Pinterest, and Youtube.

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Healing one's gut is hardest during the holiday season. It means saying no over and over to sugar, inflammatory foods like gluten and dairy, or even stressful Christmas shopping. Thankfully, there are ways to tweak our baking so we can enjoy some special treats at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Here are 7 tips for holiday baking while healing your gut -- so you don't compromise your healing!

7 Tips For Holiday Baking While Healing Your Gut

How Staying Hydrated Can Help You Avoid Candida | Do you know the dangers of dehydration? Migraines, less energy, compromised immunity, and... candida? As an opportunistic pathogen, candida can use an immune system weakened by dehydration to gain a foot hold. Here's how staying hydrated can help you avoid candida!

How Staying Hydrated Can Help You Avoid Candida

A 5-Step Approach To Avoiding & Treating Yeast Infections Naturally | If candida is an issue, you may be experiencing painful, uncomfortable vaginal yeast infections. Because a yeast infection is a sign of deeper issues, grabbing an anti-fungal from the pharmacy won't solve your problem. Here are 5 steps for avoiding and treating yeast infections naturally!

A 5-Step Approach To Avoiding & Treating Yeast Infections Naturally

Gut flora can affect mood, the way someone thinks, and even mental illnesses! Learn about the connection between mental illness and candida overgrowth... plus why healing your gut and brain requires a lot more than anti-fungals.

The Connection Between Mental Illness & Candida (+ why you need more than anti-fungals)

Most of us say we want to lose weight when what we really need to lose is FAT. Learn about candida's effects on your liver and how its toxins are stored in your fat cells, preventing fat loss. Then learn how to lose fat effectively -- even with candida.

Is Your Stubborn Fat Related To Candida? How Does Candida Affect Fat Loss?

When wheat made our guts unhappy and syrup fed harmful candida, Saturday mornings were suddenly depressing. Well, no more! We happily enjoy THESE grain-free pancakes made with coconut flour and topped with strawberries!

Candida Diet Pancakes {made with coconut flour!}

10 Reasons to Use Coconut Oil | If you've been around traditional/paleo/real foodies for any length of time, the subject of coconut oil has probably come up! Unlike the popular fats like canola oil, vegetable oil, and wannabe butter spreads, saturated fats (like coconut oil) are actually the healthiest fats you can eat and use in a variety of ways. Here are 10 reasons to use coconut oil... plus 33 recipes! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

10 Reasons To Use Coconut Oil + 33 Recipes!

45 Homemade Dressings, Sauces, and Seasonings | Want to feed your family safe dressings, sauces, and seasonings without worrying about the ingredients or adverse effects? You need these 45 alternative recipes for additive-free dressings, sauces, and seasonings. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Avoid Additives with 45 Homemade Dressings, Sauces, and Seasonings

The Secret Of Fish Stock | Fish stock doesn't usually make a person's top 10 "I need to try this!" list. But when I read about the health benefits of fish stock, I had to give credit where credit is due -- fish stock is in a class all by itself. Learn how to make fish stock, too! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

The Secret Of Fish Stock

Why We Love Cast Iron | My husband asked about the black specks in the mashed potatoes. "Oh, that's just my frying pan. The non-stick coating is wearing away." Then he brought home a box of old cast iron pans from a garage sale. I ignored them as long as I could, but now? I'm the biggest fan ever -- here's why we love cast iron. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Why We Love Cast Iron

A Chicken Coop in the Making (Granary Turned Coop) | We remodeled an old granary into a chicken coop nearly three years ago. To be honest, there's not much that we would change or do differently. It has happily housed so many of our egg-laying friends that I thought I'd show you what we did, why we did it, and what we changed. | GNOWFGLINS.com

A Chicken Coop in the Making (Granary Turned Coop)

How To Make A Pepper Juice Tincture | Pepper juice is the cringe-worthy yet beloved name of my go-to tincture for all things sick-related. As my kids know, it's the answer to everything. Sore throat? Sniffles? Cold and flu season preventative? Pepper juice! Here's how to make a pepper juice tincture! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Pepper Juice: An Immune-Boosting Miracle Tincture

Food Fight Against Cancer | Cancer. It used to be a scary, foreign, medical word. Now it's a scary, common word that people assume they will have one day. According to The World Cancer Report, reported cancer cases hit an estimated 14 million in 2012. In the next twenty years, new cancer cases are predicted to rise by 57% and reach an astounding 22 million. It's a scary thought, and one that encourages us to rediscover foods that help fight cancer. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Food Fight Against Cancer

Anthocyanins: More to Love Than Color | Colors weren't just created to please our eyes. Take fruit for example -- red strawberries, dark red or purple raspberries, and the deep blue blueberries. Anthocyanins are responsible for these colors, and the purpose goes much deeper than mere (and miraculous) beauty. | GNOWFGLINS.com

Anthocyanins: More To Love Than Color

The Need For Magnesium (with supplemental food list) | The news has been abuzz with magnesium lately, and for good reason. Every system and function in our body depends on magnesium! Learn the signs of magnesium deficiency, plus the top 11 sources of magnesium so you can restore your body's magnesium level. | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

The Need For Magnesium (with supplemental food list!)

Treating Migraines With Red Raspberry Leaf | Migraines are no fun. When I suddenly began getting migraines, always around my period, a friend asked me if I'd been drinking red raspberry leaf tea. I hadn't! So I did an experiment. Could I use red raspberry leaf for migraines? I did -- and it worked! Here's how! | TraditonalCookingSchool.com

Treating Migraines With Red Raspberry Leaf

5 Anti-Inflammatory Herbs In Your Own Backyard

5 Anti-Inflammatory Herbs In Your Own Backyard

Treating High Fevers With Egg Whites | Parents are told to reduce their kids' fevers with aspirin or other medicines. For a mild fever, this can do more harm than good. Here's a natural fever remedy you may not have heard of... egg whites! | TraditionalCookingSchool.com

Treating High Fevers With Egg Whites