Poisonous & good for you at the same time?

Those beautiful rosy pink stalks of rhubarb have shot up out of their usual spot in my garden and I am enjoying this wonderful spring fruit immensely! Rhubarb is one of the first perennial plants to poke through the earth in the spring and I absolutely adore it. Rhubarb grows in stalks and it looks […]

Guide to Buying Grass-fed Beef

The “best” beef hands down, is grass-fed beef. It’s the best option for a couple of reasons: it’s better for the earth and it’s better for your health and well-being. It’s better for the earth because it produces better soil when you allow cattle to forage for their own food in a pasture, and improves […]

Can you smell the sulfur veggies?

can you smell the sulfur veggies

Can you smell the sulfur veggies? I don’t know about you, but nobody ever told me to sit down and eat my sulfur-rich vegetables. Well, except for Dr. Terry Wahls in her hugely popular TED Talks video. (In case you aren’t familiar with this phenomenal doctor, she ate her way out of advanced MS through […]

Should you supplement with L-Glutamine?

I’ve written about amino acids before and about how they quite literally are the building blocks of proteins. There are hundreds of amino acids. Eight of them must be taken in via diet (those are considered essential amino acids) and others are made by the body itself (considered non-essential). L-glutamine is a non-essential amino acid, […]

Come and get some cumin!

Ground cumin comes from cumin seeds. Its plant is related to parsley, dill, and caraway. You can buy cumin in seed form or ground into a powder. Cumin has been used for more than 5000 years and not just as a spice. the Egyptians used it to flavor their food, yes, but they also used […]

Healthy Foods: Is it yogurt? Is it milk? No, it’s kefir!

Shepherds in the Caucasus Mountains discovered that when they carried fresh milk in leather pouches, it would sometimes transform into an effervescent liquid. According to Islamic legend, “kefir grains” were a gift from Mohammed to those Orthodox Christians living in the Caucasus Mountains. Kefir was a secret among the people of the Caucasus region for […]

Eat Brazil nuts . . . but not too many!

Brazil nuts grow on trees in many parts of the Amazon, not just in Brazil as the name of this nut might suggest. Brazil nuts are much larger than hazelnuts and almonds, and they are chock full of nutrients. In fact, a one-ounce serving of Brazil nuts provides 4% of your daily recommended dose of […]

Why you should please ditch the margarine

A while back, I shared an article giving you the skinny on fats. I gave you an overview of good fats, information about how to use them, and what fats and oils I don’t recommend. Once upon a time (in the 80s and 90s), we were told that butter was evil. We were told that […]

Healthy Foods: Jumping for joy…for Bok Choy

Bok choy is one of my favorite vegetables. Like cauliflower, broccoli, and brussels sprouts, this mild Chinese cabbage is a cruciferous vegetable. Very common in Asian cuisine, you rarely see this delicious cabbage in other types of ethnic cooking, despite the fact that it’s grown in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Bok choy has […]