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Summer is the time of year when outdoor grilling is at it’s peak. Most people probably grill some type of meat, poultry or seafood, but don’t stop there. Grilling vegetables is a great way to change the way you usually cook them. Today, I am going to focus on two of my favorites, grilled portabella …
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Did you know that 80% of the food in the U.S. is supplied by massive factory farms? I would like to think that by using the word farm, that it is safely grown for the health and welfare of the consumer. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case. More than 6,000 additives and chemicals are used by …
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In 1999 the USDA declared July to be National Blueberry Month. I always look forward to this time of the year when blueberries are more plentiful and tasteful. There is a little farm not to far from me and I plan to go and pick some fresh off the bushes in a few days. Blueberries …
One of my favorite soups is lentil soup. However, I rarely ever eat soup in the summer because for me it is to hot for soup. I usually stick to cooler foods and salads. Since lentils are so incredibly healthy, I decided to pull out an old favorite lentil salad recipe of mine to share …
Fortunately, I never got in the habit of drinking sodas, but when I would occasionally drink one, I always drank a diet soda, thinking it was better for me. However, studies now show that diet sodas may in fact be worse for you than full sugar sodas. Drinking diet soda increases your risk of metabolic …
Unless you live in a cave somewhere, I am sure you have heard many reports about red meat causing hardening of the arteries and heart attacks. This has been based on the saturated fat content of red meat. However, according to research by Stan Hazen, MD, PhD, from the Heart and Vascular Institute, and …
Below is an article written by Shilo Urban. I thought it was easy to read and understand and to the point for those of you who are a little confused about GMOs and their dangers. I know I have written several articles lately on this, but I think we are at a critical time in …
For those of you who enjoy cookies, June 12 is National Peanut Butter Cookie Day. There are a lot of different peanut butter cookie recipes with many different ingredients. I wanted to go back to the beginning to find out where they came from and how they were first made. George Washington Carver (1864-1943), compiled …
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Roundup was “supposed” to be harmless to humans and animals—the perfect weed killer. Now a groundbreaking article just published in the journal Entropy points to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, and more specifically its active ingredient glyphosate, as devastating—possibly “the most important factor in the development of multiple chronic diseases and conditions that have become prevalent in …
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Here is a list of “fun food facts” that you may not know. Actually, you may not want to know and they aren’t really fun. Previously I wrote a post on the ingredient called cellulose, most commonly found in cheese which is saw dust. I came across the following post in my search for what …
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