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A personal trainer shares his story and gives us tips for weight loss
By Raymond Elliott Lead Trainer, Personal Trainer School Director, ACE & NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Go-Time Training. If you live or work in Wichita and want one-to-one or small-group fitness instruction, give Raymond a call at (316) 833-0999. “When I was an adolescent my mother passed away from cancer. I did not realize it at…
Read MoreOur customers babble about Babka!
We don’t sell it at all our stores, but if you live in Wichita, KS, you can find it at GA-Bradley Fair and GA-West. Customers in those stores can’t seem to get enough of that chocolaty, cinnamon goodness that reads like an Easter bread for the Czechs and the Poles, but more like an every-day…
Read MoreBaking with Pamela
GreenAcres cooks bake almost exclusively with Pamela’s Gluten Free Flour. It wasn’t always that way. We started out experimenting with other flours, and for a time, we’d try new recipes with conventional flours, only to have our customers ask, “Can you make that same cake, pie or pastry for us who are gluten free?” Pamela’s…
Read MoreGrape Seed Extract—healthy for the heart, liver and more
Terry Lemerond, the founder of EuroPhama which specializes in bringing both European-tested, unique natural medicines and proprietary, custom formulations to the American consumer, is a big advocate of grape seed extract. But not just any extract, Terry recommends a tannin-free French OPC grape seed extract that is absorbed easily into the system. Well, it’s Terry’s…
Read MoreEating Organic and affording it
A customer was lamenting, “It’s just too expensive the eat organically! Organic food just doesn’t last! Well, organic food doesn’t have preservatives, which are bad for us. Of course it doesn’t last as long as conventional food. However, with a little planning and a little prep, we can make organic food last as long as…
Read MoreTravels with Robab
Robab Taghizadeh is a certified Naturopathic Practitioner from the Trinity School of Natural Health, Warsaw, Indiana. She works exclusively out of GreenAcres-OKC, and is our go-to gal when we have questions from customers regarding naturopathic medicines and when we need recommendations for specific health issues involving naturopathic supplementation. Robab writes a monthly column for an…
Read More“Functional” Beverages — Adding something more to an already good thing
Matt Murray, a GreenAcres Market owner, defines “functional beverages” as those having additional vitamins and minerals added to the core product. “Think enhanced,” explains Matt. “Products that have become popular with consumers who are seeking ‘a quick-fix’ to address a certain health issue.” The functional market is being driven by both convenience and health, and…
Read MoreHealth and Beauty—it comes by us “naturally!”
It might seem strange that a whole department store of cosmetics might exist in a chain of health food stores. But there it is, HABA, as the department is called at GreenAcres Market, features a whole array of beauty, bath and hygiene products, all toxin free and carried with the caveat that “the liver can…
Read MoreBoswellia, a tree resin that might actually save a life
The winds are up—well they’re almost always up in Kansas and Oklahoma. The Cottonwood trees have long ago shed their “snow,” but we’ve had so much rain this spring and summer, between the ragweed and the mildew, allergy season is becoming a year-around thing. Ah chew! We can tell at GreenAcres when sinus season descends,…
Read MoreSave the bees!
We’ll be hearing from Steve Weber, founder of High Plains Honey, tomorrow at Breakfast with Matt (GA-Bradley Fair) about the state of our vanishing bee population and what’s being done to “bring them back home.” Beekeepers have thought for a long time that chemicals sprayed on wheat fields just before harvest have had a deleterious…
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