Dinner Diva: Raising a Paleo baby
If you are currently expecting a baby, or if you have a baby getting ready to start on solid foods, how I envy you! You have the chance to raise an organic, Part-Time Paleo baby. How fortunate you are! When you give birth to a healthy little human, you don’t have to feed that child […]
Food For Thought: How to avoid the Freshmen 15
Many of us have been there. You go from being an active teenager who can eat anything and not gain a pound to a student at the end of your freshman year who can’t fit into half the clothes in your closet. Nobody wants that! Not only because we like to look and feel our […]
Healthy Foods: One of the good grains: Amaranth
If you’re pursuing a gluten-free lifestyle, you’ve probably come across amaranth on your travels. Amaranth is a teeny tiny seed that was eaten by the ancients. Today, we’re learning that this gluten-free grain is extremely nutritious, and this wee seed is making a long overdue comeback here in the western world. Amaranth contains a lot […]
Dinner Diva: Can you live without the microwave?
I don’t use a microwave and this has nothing to do with following a Paleo lifestyle. I started avoiding microwaves when I was a new mother. My distaste for microwaves actually came from a lactation nurse. A week after my son was born, he was in the hospital for a week with RSV. He was […]
Food For Thought: The deal with evaporated cane juice
If you spend time reading labels in health food stores, you may have noticed evaporated cane juice listed on the label of most of the packaged food items you find there. But that doesn’t mean those products are healthy. I was recently asked how I feel about evaporated cane juice. In case you were wondering […]
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 […]
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 […]