Tag Archives: healthy foods
Salads … boring no more!!!
There are a lot of great organic salads but you have to start with the best basics and I can think of no better grocery store brand than ORGANIC GIRL. The quality is in this brand complete with a THREE times washed process to ensure the cleanest lettuce available. I picked up a package of 50/50 and really tasted the difference. Perhaps it was the clever...
Best Cooking Oils
You’re becoming an expert in the kitchen. But that skillet full of grease? Honey, you know better. There are a gazillion fancy types of oils out there now. Let’s set the record straight on which oils to cook with and learn how to use them properly to benefit — not harm — your health.
Quality over Quantity
Buy oils of the organic,...
From waste to riches
(Image: Backtotheroots)
There are some amazing examples of All Consuming out there, but this is one of the most inspiring stories we’ve heard. Alejandro Velez & Nikhil Arora are the guys behind the impressive company Back To The Roots. They grow gourmet mushrooms in recycled coffee grounds. Yep, they take that by-product of coffee mush from...
Raw Milk Debate Continues at Harvard Law School
This month, Harvard Law School hosted a debate on an issue near and dear to our hearts: raw milk.
David Gumpert, author of The Raw Milk Revolution was on the side of the debate endorsing raw milk, along with Sally Fallon Morrell of theWeston A. Price Foundation.
Facing off against them and emphasizing the dangers of unpasteurized milk were Fred Pritzker...
Willie Nelson +300,000 Activists Sue Monsanto
Monsanto may be a little jealous, as it has fallen from environmentalist enemy #1 to environmentalist enemy #2 as a result of the ongoing Keystone XL pipeline controversy. However, in all seriousness, Monsanto does some f***ed up s*** and is heavily opposed by greenies around the world. It was reported this week that Willie Nelson and and about 300,000...
Sulfur in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables may hold the key to healing genetic diseases
Our mothers were right. Broccoli is good for us, but possibly in ways our mothers never knew. Health practitioners and fitness experts around the world have heralded the benefits of broccoli for decades. Scientists have long demonstrated the antioxidant properties of broccoli. Many people know that broccoli is rich in vitamins A, C, and E, the big free...
Green Tea … Age Wise Cognitive Booster
Green tea has long been hailed as a cardio-protective beverage due to its ability to lower levels of oxidized LDL cholesterol, an established heart disease risk factor. It has also been shown to promote brain health because the active compound, EGCG (Epigallocatechin gallate) freely crosses the blood-brain barrier to provide antioxidant support and...
Raw Milk Lands Wisconsin Farmer with RAW DEAL
After repeated visits to his farm throughout 2009 and 2010 that resulted in an unprovoked quarantine, state and county officials in Wisconsin have charged Amish farmer Vernon Hershberger with violating state retail food laws by distributing raw milk to cow owners. Hershberger was recently released from illegal captivity on $500 bond, but will soon...
Big Meat and How the Farm Bill is Bad for Farmers
If you’re a regular reader here, I bet that you stay away from meat that’s produced by huge corporations or maybe you don’t eat meat or dairy at all, so you may not feel like you’ll get much from a video on conventional meat production. Why should you take the time, when you’re already doing what you can, right? I’m a big believer that...
