By admin | October 14, 2008
Canola popped up on the scene a while ago marketed as a flavorless, healthy oil that withstands high temps and is therefore good for sauteeing, frying, or baking. Listen, folks, canola is a highly processed oil, often genetically modified, and when heated and deodorized during processing, any omega 3 or good fats it once had [...]
Posted in Nutrition | Tagged fats |
By admin | October 13, 2008
Swiss Chard!
Eat more leafy greens! Chard is a wonderful way to meet your leafy greens quota. It belongs to the same family as beets and spinach and is slightly bitter, slightly salty. Chard is incredibly high in vitamin K (for bone health), vitamin A for beta-carotene, and minerals like iron, magnesium and manganese. Magnesium is [...]
By admin | October 12, 2008
I made this for dinner last night, with a few modifications, and boy was it perfectly easy and delicious.
Chicken Chili in the Crockpot
* 2 pounds ground chicken, coarsely ground preferred
* 3 tablespoons chili powder, plus 2 teaspoons
* 1 (15-ounce) can kidney beans, [...]
By admin | October 10, 2008
I just have to give props to this wonderful company and her beyond wonderful skincare line. Benedetta makes 100% natural creams, oils, elixirs and more for bath and body. Everything is handmade in small batches to meet a conscious standard for purity. Formulated by Julia Faller in Sonoma (that means local for us California folk!), [...]
By admin | October 9, 2008
Over 10,000 Chinese children were sickened after drinking milk powder contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical used in products including plastics, paint and adhesives.
Melamine is added to milk – or fed to animals used for food and milk – to raise the protein content in foods. It can cause major kidney problems in both [...]
Posted in Nutrition | Tagged dairy |
By admin | October 8, 2008
-Rocky Jr Organic whole roast chicken (lemon herb) from Whole Foods. I’ll buy one and eat on it all week. Good over salads, shredded and reheated in corn tortillas with avocado and black beans, or i’ll make a curry chicken salad with it.
-Baked sesame-cumin sweet potato fries (recipe follows)
-Green beans with shallots
mmmmmmmm.
oh – and a [...]
Posted in Nutrition | Tagged recipe |
By admin | October 8, 2008
This is how I start my days:
Staring into a nice, warm cup of green tea. I double bag a sencha and a genmaicha in nearly-boiling water and let them steep so the flavors meld. It makes the perfect cup. The sencha is nice and grassy and the genmaicha – green tea with roasted brown [...]
Posted in Nutrition | Tagged meditations, tea |
By admin | October 7, 2008
Pomegranates!
In season only a short time in Fall/early Winter, pomegranate is a beautiful fruit with so many health-promoting benefits. Very high in antioxidants, it improves heart health circulation and has been shown not only to stop hardening of artery walls and build-up of plaque but to also reverse these problems! Pomegranate may also lower levels [...]
Posted in Nutrition | Tagged fruit |
By admin | October 6, 2008
Try this delicious spinach-shiitake soup now that cold and flu season is upon us. Nutrient dense ingredients in chicken broth are just what you need to crank up your immunity. Grandma was right – chicken soup/broth really can help shorten the duration of sickness.
Alliums such as garlic and onion fight viruses and bacteria, and shiitakes [...]
By admin | October 4, 2008
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