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 …
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8 Reasons GMOs Are Bad For You
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 …
June 12 is National Peanut Butter Cookie Day
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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Monsanto’s Roundup May Be Even More Damaging Than We Thought
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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What Do You Really Know About What’s In Your Food?
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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It’s Strawberry Season!
I get so excited as spring and summer comes because of all the fresh fruits and vegetables that start showing up. It is strawberry season now so I no longer need to purchase overpriced and tasteless berries. Strawberries are so delicious and also very healthy for you. One cup of strawberries has just 50 calories …
Brunch Recipes for Mother’s Day
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. …
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 …
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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