Going Gluten-Free; Intro: Surviving the panic of “What am I going to Eat?!”
Your doctor has just told you that you need to start a gluten-free diet, effective immediately. After the appointment, you drive your car to the ‘weird’ natural foods store in town that your neighbors...
View ArticleGoing Gluten-Free: The First Steps
Becoming a label reader Before you needlessly throw everything in your kitchen pantry away, and as you begin to go shopping for gluten-free products, the biggest change in your shopping routine is that...
View ArticleGreen Superfood Powders, Blends and More
One of the best (and easiest!) ways to improve your nutrient intake, vitality and general health without having to overhaul your diet or learn how to cook a new food or add a bunch of new pills to your...
View Article5 Great Supplements for Winter
It’s winter! That means sniffles, colds, the holidays and flu season. The temperature see-saws, the stress, the travel, the year-end bills and the months of lessened sunlight. I’ve got a few stand-by...
View Article5 More Supplements for the Winter Months
Vitamin D, Echinacea, Garlic, Nux Vomica, Green Superfoods With the arrival of colder temperatures for the last 2-3 weeks for much of the U.S. and Canada, it’s time for a followup to last year’s ““5...
View ArticleStrawberries and Sprouts Sandwich
Here’s an interesting little combo I put together when I was on a tomato n’ sprouts sandwich kick and ran out of tomatoes. I thought, “Hey, how about putting two layers of strawberries in there...
View ArticleOur Imperiled Dwindling Food Variety
Some shocking stats: 93 percent of the seed varieties available in US seed houses in 1903 had gone extinct before 1990. And 1994-1995 were the first years that outdoor growing of GMO’s (genetically...
View ArticleShoppers’ Guide to Avoiding GE (GMO) Food
With Vermont’s recent court victory to require manufacturers selling food in the state to adhere to GMO-labeling guidelines set forth, it’s time for other states to demand the same transparency on...
View ArticleQuirky Cuisine: Three Strange Meals
Beggal in a nest. I first tried this by cutting out the center of both the top and bottom halves of a begal, but found it easier to leave the bottom one intact for better stacking the second time …...
View ArticleSenate Defeats the Latest Industry Effort to Block GMO Food Labeling
Good news in the ongoing fight for consumers’ right to know! By a slim 1-vote margin, the bill was stopped in its tracks. Thanks to the efforts of numerous consumer, health and anti-GMO groups, their...
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