August 2016

Body, King

Back to “Bases”: Acids, Alkaline Diets and the Body

Dr. Sarah King, ND @sarahhealthyfox Over the past few years, “alkaline” has become a health buzz word. Alkaline diets, and now new brands of alkaline water, are said to promote a healthier state in the body. The health buzz is that they attempt to alkalinize the body and help to prevent cancer since some cancer […]

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Back to School Season Tough on Asthmatic Kids

(NaturalPath) Back to school season can be tough on some kids, not just because they are leaving all the summer fun behind, but because their asthma starts to get worse. One pediatric allergy specialist says that about 6 to 8 percent of school-age children have asthma. According to the University of Michigan Health System, this is

Diets, Fleming, Food

Beyond Eating Less and Exercising More: Timing is Everything

Dr. Alethea Fleming, ND We are all too familiar with the broken refrain that to lose weight we must eat less and exercise more. However, starvation portions and more time on the treadmill doesn’t work. This series examines several simple tweaks that help keep weight off. Timing is everything You may have heard of the

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Cramming Doesn’t Work Long-term when Studying

(NaturalPath) It’s back to school time for some and that means studying. Whether you are in college or your children are in grade school or high school, studying becomes a significant part of your life. Procrastination also enters the pictures creating the need to cram for tests. According to a study out of the Association for

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Start of School Can Worsen Bedwetting in Children

(NaturalPath) Anxiety can really affect your life, even more in children. Going back to school can be that stress. According to a study out of Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, while the urology department perennially sees bedwetting in children, there is an uptick in September from the anxiety of going back to school. “Back to school is

Becker, Body, Pediatrics

Autism Healing Begins in the Gut!

Dr. Kendra Becker, ND It has been well reported that autism is intimately connected to the immune system and acts in some way as an autoimmune condition. Immunity begins to develop during the 14th week of gestation, as undifferentiated developing immune cells, which later become major cells of a human’s immune system, with specific and

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Importance of Breakfast for Both Parent and Child

(NaturalPath)  Planning on skipping that breakfast as you ran out of time before school in all the busyness? Don’t. According to a new study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, researchers found that online and in-person group education are effective in helping parents reduce breakfast-skipping and improve other breakfast nutritional

Becker, Experts

Dr. Kendra Becker, ND

Dr. Kendra Becker is one truly integrated physician practicing for 10 years; She is Connecticut’s only “4A Specialist” (asthma, autism, allergies, atopy/eczema). She holds an ND degree from University of Bridgeport and MS, APRN from Sacred Heart University. She is board certified in both areas. Her specialties include MTHFR, fertility and treatment of “the 4As”

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