Healthier you, greener planet
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“Do I really need to supplement?” “Which supplements should I take?” “Do I really need to take all those?” With all the contradictions floating around out there about nutrition, and the overwhelming amount of choices and claims in the supplement world, you have probably asked yourself these questions at some point in your life. Briefly, [...]
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Do you have picky eaters in your house? If so, getting them to make healthy eating choices is often – if not always – like pulling a lion’s tooth: seriously painful for both of you. But there are a few things you can do to persuade your picky eater – especially kids – to get [...]
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Over the past few decades, Western culture has become more hurried. And so has our diet. Fast, frozen, and just-add-water-and-heat foods have become the American eating mainstays. Few people “have time” to prepare meals from scratch. If you have been one of those people, it’s time to start making the time. I won’t get into [...]
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Do diets really work – long term, that is? If you’ve ever tried a diet, you will probably answer with a confident and vehement “No!” Yet, Americans – especially women – continue to believe that weight loss is a matter of reducing calories and generally feeling hungry and deprived. I listened to a podcast the [...]
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Why dehydrate your food? Is it the best method of food preservation, or is food dehydration just more convenient? I began to ask myself these questions a couple of years ago when I got into eating raw food. I had been happily using my Excalibur 5 Tray Food Dehydrator for a few months when someone [...]
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The other day, we had ice cream for breakfast. Seriously. Of course, it wasn’t the run-of-the-mill grocery store frozen sugar-laden stuff. It was raw ice cream, made from young coconuts. I based it on the recipe in Natalia Rose’s book, The Raw Food Detox Diet, but decided to modify it. The original recipe calls for [...]
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Dessert? Healthy?! Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as healthy dessert recipes. Following are several summer dessert recipes that not only taste great, but are packed with nutrition and help cool you off! Meal Replacement Shake Smoothie Serves one. 1 scoop meal replacement shake powder 1 cup water 1 cup frozen bananas, berries, or [...]
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Surprised by the title of this post? The truth is, you can avoid the flu and other severe illnesses. I’m talking about long-term. When I say “never”, I mean never. Why do I have the audacity to claim that you could get to a place in your life where the flu can’t even touch you? [...]
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The nutrients in eggs are varied and plentiful. That combined with their low cost should make them a winner with frugal cooks around the globe. However, during the past couple of decades, the greatness of eggs has been clouded. Mainly, it was because of the misinformation that dietary cholesterol leads to high blood cholesterol (which [...]
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Non-raw food vegetarians will tell you grains are great. Most raw food gurus advise avoiding them. Primal diet fans believe that grains are an unnecessary evil. Who’s right? All of them. To an extent. Grains do contain vital nutrients, such as some of the B vitamins and several trace minerals (which vary depending on the [...]
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