Healthier you, greener planet
From the category archives:
The most natural way to boost your immune system is not through taking herbs or practicing yoga, Rather, it is through eating foods that optimize immune function. The following article taken from mercola.com lists the 12 best foods to eat during cold and flu season. (P.S.–I am reducing my time online for the next couple [...]
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Vegetable soup recipes can get a bit dull sometimes. But I recently created a recipe for a vegetable soup that both my husband and I found quite tasty, if I do say so myself. I don’t often invent recipes, but the several zucchini and yellow squash I received from my last food co-op pick-up, an [...]
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A friend recently asked me what the difference was between organic meat and grass-fed meat. After all, the term “organic” is now nearly synonymous with “healthy.” Although that’s mostly true when you’re talking produce, organic meat should be approached with much more caution. Before getting into organic vs. grass-fed, let me touch on the label [...]
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I recently saw a headline stating, “FDA To Look Into Safety of Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverages.” Honestly, I didn’t even know such a creature existed. I haven’t watched major TV networks in years, and no TV at all since I met Jerry. But the headline piqued my interest, mainly because the idea that putting two drugs [...]
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Egg nog often gets a bad rap these days. “Be careful what you drink,” the health “experts” caution, “raw eggs might give you salmonella.” (Um, a 1 in 30,000 chance, by the way.) In my opinion, the the super-thick, super-rich concoction in cartons–which, of course, contain only heated egg yolks–carries much higher health risks than [...]
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I have a confession to make. I, The Crunchy Coach, said to my husband the other night, “I’m tired of lettuce.” To which he responded, “It’s getting a little old for me, too.” (Ah, the joys of being in agreement with your spouse.) This wasn’t such a huge shock. After all, we eat some kind [...]
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Whenever I’ve read that milk should be avoided, it has always come down to the same thing: milk produces mucus, and the mucus that milk produces is the cause of allergies and frequent colds and all kinds of other evil. This “fact” was really getting on my nerves a last week, as I was trying [...]
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My husband loves cheesecake. As such, that is his ongoing birthday dessert request. As The Crunchy Coach, however, I feel obligated to make sure even special desserts are as healthy as possible. But a healthy cheesecake? One made without refined sugar and chemical preservatives, and made with organic cheese…is there such a creature? I have [...]
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A detox diet is one of the first prescriptions natural health practitioners will give you if you see them with any kind of illness or disease. As cold and flu season has come upon us, I thought it would be a good time to talk about how to incorporate that diet into your life should [...]
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In an earlier post, I exposed the truth about finding a cure for cancer: it’s mainly what you passes through your lips. I explained how people groups that eat a traditional, non-modern-day-Western diet don’t get cancer, and gave you three basic principles to follow so that you can begin to dramatically reduce your cancer risk. [...]
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