Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12 and I hope you have started giving some thought as to how you can serve your mother on this special day. For those of us whose mother lives to far away to visit, we have to make due with sending a gift and talking to her on the phone. …
Category Archives: Healthy Eating
Give Me Real Food!
Americans spend over 90% of their food money on processed foods. That is pretty scary since there are over 3,000 food additives that are added to the foods Americans eat. A lot of these additives which include preservatives, flavorings, colors and other chemical ingredients which are in our foods are banned in other countries because …
Eating to Prevent Kidney Disease
A dear friend of mine has recently been going through some difficult medical problems, one of which includes kidney problems. In order to try and help her, I decided to do some research to see what foods and life style changes she may need to make in order to help her kidneys function normally. Some …
Use Sesame Seeds For A Healthy Diet
Last week I talked about figs as a healing food. This week sesame seeds are on the list of healing foods. A recent study found that people with high cholesterol who ate a few spoonfuls of sesame seeds each day lowered their LDL cholesterol by almost 10 percent. They are filled with minerals such as …
Figs – One of the Worlds Healthiest Foods
If you are like me, you probably don’t eat figs very often. They are just not one of those items that are readily available or talked about very much. I like dried figs okay, but when I do eat them, I try to buy organic figs because commercially grown figs are usually treated with sulfur …
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Watch Out For That Easter Candy!
Easter will be here in a couple of days and hopefully you won’t be temped to eat to much (hopefully not any) of the artificially colored Easter candy that you see everywhere you go. Most of the candy ingredients usually start with sugar and corn syrup, followed by high fructose corn syrup or some other …
The Dangers of Somer Herbal and Dietary Supplements
There are a lot of different views about taking supplements. Some physicians recommend that a multi-vitamin be added to your daily diet. Others say that if you are eating a healthy diet there is no need for vitamins. Depending on the vitamin, especially multi-vitamins, you may not be getting what you think you are. I …
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Why You Crave Processed Foods
A couple of weeks ago, I happened to be around to watch the Dr. Oz Show. I think Dr. Oz has some great information and I was really fascinated with this show. He had Michael Moss on who is the author of Salt Sugar Fat which has just recently been released. Michael Moss is a …
Is Your Pure Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Fake?
Is your extra-virgin olive oil fake? According to the book by Tom Mueller called Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil, it probably is. According to him, 70% of the extra virgin olive oil sold is adulterated. The most common form of adulteration comes from mixing extra virgin olive oil with cheaper, …
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The Dangers of BPA and Where It is Lurking
In 2011, Bisphenol A, also known as BPA was a big topic in the news about the risks connected with this product found in plastics and food packaging materials. Studies showed it could cause a wild range of diseases such as reproductive system abnormalities, cancer, behavioral disorders, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In one study published …
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