Food For Thought: Warning—Do not read while eating store-bought bread
Let me ask you something… Would you purposely put a bowl of wood chips in front of your children in the morning, pour some milk on it, hand them a spoon and tell them to eat it? How about slicing up some pizza topped with human hair clippings, swept off the floor of a barbershop […]
Healthy Foods: Spouting off on Brussels sprouts!
In my humble opinion, Brussels sprouts have a pretty bad rap. This is probably because many of us were forced to sit down to a plate of mushy green balls of leaves and told to eat them even though they tasted like watered-down grass clippings and smelled like dirty socks. There are much more interesting […]
Dinner Diva: Shining the light on nightshades
Are you familiar with the Solanaceae family? No, they aren’t the neighbors of the Sopranos! The Solanaceae family is more commonly known as the nightshade family. Its name has lots of folks assuming that these foods are grown in the dark of night with fairies waving their magic wands over them removing any need for […]
Healthy Foods: Flax Facts
Flax is one of those foods that’s extremely good for us but many folks simply aren’t using it properly. This magical plant was cultivated in Babylon in 3,000 BC. Clothing made with flax fibers has been found in early burial chambers. Hippocrates once wrote about using flax to relieve pain in the abdomen. And would […]
Dinner Diva: The scoop on dietary lectins
Dietary lectins are most likely not on your radar screen. Not unless you’re fairly heavily involved in the world of food science and/or nutrition in general, anyway. Most everyday people don’t know about lectins and neither do many doctors! Considering the damage these nasty little boogers can do, that’s really not so good. So what […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: What’s all the fuss over wheatgrass?
Wheatgrass looks about as appetizing as a plate of lawnmower clippings, but this young grass of the wheat plant is an excellent source of antioxidants and vitamins. An ounce of wheatgrass juice has as many minerals as two and a half pounds of fresh veggies! Drink up your vitamins A, B-12, and E, some calcium, […]
Food For Thought: The skinny on fats and oils
Olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, canola oil, walnut oil, avocado oil, flaxseed oil, rice bran oil, coconut oil, grape seed oil, safflower oil, and sunflower oil . . . there are so many different types of oils staring back at you from the grocery store shelf that you almost need a degree in food […]
Healthy Foods: All hail the kale!
I’m going way out on a limb here to say that kale is the most nutritious food you can put in your body. Lots of people think that kale is some new nutritional magical trend, but it’s your basic green veggie and it’s been around for a long time! And while kale’s now being touted […]
Dinner Diva: The Paleo diet and your kids
I feel SO amazing since transitioning to a paleolithic way of eating. I feel even better than I did when I was a teenager. Honestly, I wish I knew more about about the benefits of avoiding grains, dairy, gluten, and legumes back when my kids were little! Let me back up for a minute here […]