Healthy Foods: Nothing fishy about the benefits of fish oil

Fish oil comes from the tissues of oily fish (imagine that!). This oil contains omega-3 fatty acids including DHA and EPA, which have both enjoyed lots of attention from the health world over the past few years. Fish oil has a ton of important health benefits, and we all should be getting in at least […]

Food For Thought: Never too late to take folate

If you’ve had a baby or are thinking of having a baby, folic acid (also known as folate) has most likely been on your radar screen at some point. But this nutrient should be on everyone’s plate, even those of us without babies on the brain! Folic acid is the synthetic form of folate-a naturally […]

Healthy Foods: If your mood’s out of whacka, try some maca

Maca is a root that belongs to the radish family. It hails from Peru, where it has long been valued for its health benefits. Nowadays, the rest of the world is catching on to the wonder of maca. Used for everything from boosting libido to relieving symptoms of menopause, maca is quite the item to […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Duck, duck, gooseberries!

Have you seen those little papery fruits in the plastic clamshells at the supermarket and wondered what they were? They’re actually gooseberries. The papery kind is one variety of 50 or so that are found from China to Canada and many points in between. Enjoyed most often as a dessert ingredient for their tart flavor, […]

Healthy Foods: Big health bang delivered by liver

Few things can raise as many “I’m not eating that” and “eew! Disgusting!” reactions from the dinner table as liver, but that’s too bad because the nutrition found in organ meats is unbelievable! The liver is a storage organ for vitamins A, B12, D, E, and K, as well as copper, iron, and other essential […]

Healthy Foods: Get set for good health with gelatin

You know those jellied salads your mother and grandmothers used to put on the potluck table? As it turns out, the gelatin that makes those molded salads stand up like they do is extremely healthy for us. Well, without all the sugar that Great Aunt Martha used to add in there of course! Gelatin is […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Mary had a little (grass-fed) lamb

Lamb meat comes from a sheep that is under a year old, whereas “mutton” is sheep older than 2 years old, and any age in between is referred to as “hogget.” Lamb is definitely sweeter and more tender than those other older meats. If you have a hard time with the idea of eating a […]

Food For Thought: Can the canned cooking spray

If you were to sit back and really look at it, spraying a cloud of oil out of a can and onto your food doesn’t paint a terribly healthy picture, does it? I mean, it’s the same delivery vehicle as WD-40 or hair spray. And to be honest, aerosol cooking spray isn’t a whole lot […]

Healthy Foods: I heart hemp hearts!

Even though they come from the cannabis sativa plant, hemp hearts or hemp seeds can’t be smoked and they won’t give you the munchies if you know what I’m saying! Not only are hemp seeds not going to give you any psychotropic effects, but they will deliver some powerful nutrition when you pop them in […]