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Michelle Speckler

Michelle Speckler is president of Speckler Creative, a
marketing/communications company in Livingston, Montana. A professional writer and journalist, she writes for print and electronic media on a broad range of topics including health, alternative healing, mental illness, high technology, and higher education. Michelle is a Level 2 Reiki practitioner; has taught yoga, meditation, and pranayama; and presently teaches classes on mental illness and its impact on family members and community.

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Understanding GrassFed

We’ve heard it countless times: You are what you eat. So it should come as no surprise that what you eat is what it eats, too. It’s a remarkably simple concept: the nutritional value of an animal product is directly influenced by the animal’s diet. Therefore, say advocates of the rapidly growing Grass-fed movement, the animal’s diet should be as biologically natural and as packed full of nutrients as possible, right?
If, like millions of Americans, you think that the road to healthy eating is paved with all things “lite” and low fat, think again. Scientists are discovering that Mother Nature’s best medicine just may be red meat and dairy.

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) first came to public attention in 1988, when a University of Wisconsin researcher discovered its cancer-fighting properties in a study of rats fed fried hamburger.


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