10 Tips for Healthy Holiday Feasting

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There’s no way around eating good food during the holidays, and lots of it. But wouldn’t it be nice if you and your guests actually felt good after the feast? And even the day after?
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7 Components to Festive (and Nutritious) Seasonal Salads

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Although summer boasts fresh, raw veggies, the fall and winter months offer their own share of hearty, healthy, immune-boosting, disease-fighting fare. The holiday season is also the flu season, so now is NOT the time to give them up – we need as much as we [...]

Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Roasting Vegetables

If you’re going to turn the oven on to high temperatures for roasting, make sure to take advantage and roast as many vegetables as you can at the same time.
Place more delicate vegetables like zucchini, eggplant and summer squashes onto one sheet pan – these can be removed after about 20 minutes. Place heartier [...]

Umami – The Best-Kept Secret to Flavorful Food

Ever wonder why some vegetarian dishes taste so rich and satisfying while others taste like cardboard? This is the magic of “umami”, the best-kept secret of professional chefs, who strive to create the most savory, full-bodied meals for their guests.
Umami is another word for “savory-ness” or “deliciousness”. Until umami came onto the scene in the [...]

Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Eat Micro-Greens to Power Pack Nutrition

These little greens come packed solid with nutrients so dense, it’s hard to find anything else that meets their match.
If you think about it, seeds and sprouts rely on a ton of energy within them. The energy it takes to get them from where they are now into a full grown plant is enormous, and [...]

The Seaweed Secret: How to Boost Minerals (without milk!)

It makes sense that sea vegetables are so high in minerals: they’re literally bathing in them. Minerals from the deep-sea floor are churned up and get absorbed into the cell walls. The outcome is an edible plant chock-full of precious minerals that we just can’t live without.
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No More Bottled Dressings!

There are a few good reasons to say bye-bye to bottled dressings (including sugar, preservatives and the fact that making your own is so easy) but number one in my book is the commercial use of unhealthy and over-consumed oils.
For the longest time, I couldn’t figure out why every time I ate from the salad [...]

Top Three Reasons Why Cruciferous Vegetables Are So Good for You

People ask me, “What products do you use on your skin? It glows.” I reply, “A $2 bar of soap and some olive oil”. Then of course I tell them that I eat more cruciferous vegetables than anyone I know. By the look on their faces, I think they would rather me recommend a $150 [...]

How to Make Your Own Homemade Nut Milk

I’ve been making my own nut milks for years, but it wasn’t until recently (as soon as I let go of my raw cow milk share) that I needed a healthy, sustainable solution for my daily green smoothies. Sure, I can buy nut milks in those asceptic containers from the alternative milk aisle, but I [...]

Coo Coo for Coconuts

How to Open a Coconut and Coconut recipes below!
Somewhere in the 50’s, coconut oil got a bad rap due to its high levels of saturated fats. Coconut oil does indeed have the highest content of saturated fat of all the vegetable oils. With fat phobia prevalent in the West, it’s not surprising that coconuts (oil, [...]

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