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Most of us assume that the quality of the drinking water coming out of our taps must be fine. It's always available and seemingly protected, apparently clean and generally recognized as safe. In reality however, the state of our drinking water is overall quite poor and on the decline. Much of our drinking water is recycled waste water... yes, it is often water that travels through our bodies and out to sewage lines, eventually finding its way through our municipal water treatment system and then back to our homes as drinking water. In other cases, the water comes to us from reservoirs, often completely unfiltered, through 100 year old pipes while being treated with harsh chemicals that remain in the water we drink. Or, in the case of people relying on well water, we have concerns about agricultural and industrial toxic runoff leaching into the water supply as well as high levels of bacteria. These often go undetected until it's too late.

Why consider Homemade Infant Formula?

The importance of breastfeeding cannot be overemphasized. Breast milk is perfectly designed to meet the nutritional needs of your baby. However, if your milk is not in adequate supply, not of good quality, or if you are unable to breast feed your baby for any reason, you may want to try one of the Nourishing Traditions recipes for homemade baby formula. Both the cow's milk and meat based formulas closely resemble the nutrients found in breast milk.

Coconut oil is uniquely beneficial to health in ways that range from disease prevention to anti-aging. Whether taken as a supplement, used in cooking, or applied to the skin, the benefits of coconut oil are many!

Remember the stories told by your grandmother about chasing her kids around the house with the spoon of cod liver oil? There's a reason that the kids would scatter. The taste, the smell or even the mere thought of consuming something from both a fish and a liver was more than most children could handle. Grandmother certainly knew best however, in her attempt to provide high vitamin cod liver oil to her loved ones.

Beef livers provide us vitamin-rich storage depots. When sourced from healthy, grass fed cows, liver is absolutely loaded with a wide spectrum of vitamins, minerals, proteins and fat. It is particularly rich in the nutrients that help keep our brains healthy including the essential fatty acids needed by humans for proper nutrition and health including EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid), DHA (docasahexaenoic acid), and AA (arachidonic acid) as well as Vitamin B12.

Due to of our 21^st century lifestyle, most of us spend a majority of our time inside our homes and places of work. For the most part, we work, eat, sleep and generally live our lives indoors. Rarely do we come into direct contact with the earth and as a result we become shielded from the earth and the many therapeutic effects of grounding or what is now commonly known as earthing.