Let’s talk about diet. I don’t mean dieting. I mean the food you consume. That’s what the word diet truly means. It’s what you eat (not a single behavior for a short amount of time). What’s good? It’s important to keep in mind with lupus, or any other inflammatory disease, it’s an inflammatory disease. WeRead more about 5 Tips for Eating Healthy With Inflammatory Disorder[…]

Is your meat consuming you rather than you consuming it? Reports by the Academy of Pediatrics, World Cancer Research Fund and World Health Organization all point to the need to be more careful with meat consumption. The IARC (World Health Organization International Agency for Research on Cancer) has reported processed meats (hot dogs, ham, sausages,Read more about Tips to Help You Achieve a Meatless Monday[…]

Balance & Disease Health & Wellness blog is excited to announce a new weekly spotlight series.  Our Healthy Monday series will be in addition to our weekly autoimmune posts. Why on Monday? Mondays are the day of the week people start fresh. It’s the time when they start a new healthy behavior or start workingRead more about Healthy Mondays coming Monday![…]

Can our environment be creating the cause of diseases that are changing our lives and killing us? After reading a report by NASA, in an article in the Washington Post, about the soaring temperatures of Earth the last few years, it brought to mind just how our environment impacts our health. Of course, if Earth heatsRead more about Is the environment impacting your health?[…]

You feel it. You know you are starting to get a bad respiratory infection. You know the signs (or maybe it’s a different type that you always get). You go within the first two days to see a doctor. You know you need antibiotics or treatment, and you do your best to be sure theRead more about Sick & Tired with SLE? Find out why.[…]

The thermometer beeped as my husband and I waited in sickened anticipation… beep beep…two beeps are bad. That means the temperature is above 101. We looked together… 104 PANIC. What do we do? This was our third month in a row with PFAPA. It was our first Thanksgiving with our son. He was only 10Read more about How to Handle Autoimmune Disorder In Your Family[…]

I have been there, the look of irritation and frustration from a general practitioner. They don’t want you making suggestions, or even to have a health or medical thought of your own. It’s not like you are the one with all the symptoms, or the one who feels ill! You aren’t the one who hasRead more about 5 Tips to Help You Get Results with a Doctor[…]

Do you ever feel like you are in an episode of The Walking Dead? One where Rick goes out on a supply run. You are out in the wilderness, wandering, hoping to find what you need, or someone to help you or your loved ones? Or maybe just someone to talk to? You are inRead more about How Not To Feel Like You Are Part of A Walking Dead Episode[…]

Here we are again – nearly 3 years later…Bubba is sick, and diagnosed with an ear infection and prescribed antibiotics. We are lucky our child has been able to clear most infections on his own, without any type of medication. We use oils, and teas, and allergy medications to keep his airways open to clearRead more about Naturally Healing Your Children[…]