Raw Or Cooked? For as long as I can remember, I have been hearing and reading about the raw diet. A raw diet consists of pretty much anything that you can possibly eat fully raw, but nothing else. It is…
Why All-Natural And Organic Fruits, Vegetables And Meats Should Form The Foundation Of A Healthy Whole Food Diet
Why buy all-natural and organic whole foods? There are many reasons why all-natural and organic fruits, vegetables and meats should form the foundation of a healthy whole food diet. Eliminating pesticide, herbicide and other chemical residues from the diet is…
Sweet Potatoes – A Healthy Whole Food
Potatoes have plenty of nutrients for any healthy whole food diet but sweet potatoes are even better in almost every way. Sweet potatoes have more fiber and more vitamins A and C than white potatoes. Sweet potatoes have fewer calories…
Fresh Okra And Grape Tomatoes Recipe
About Okra Okra is a wonderful and underutilized vegetable. The young pods are best and cook more quickly when still tender but fully mature pods work fine with just a little extra cooking time and moisture. Okra supplies a lot…
Vary Your Berries For Maximum Whole Food Health
Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries are, in order, the four most popular berries in the US. They should be part of every healthy whole food diet. All four berry varieties provide high amounts of necessary vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients, many…
Curried Ginger Pumpkin Soup Recipe
Since I am usually cooking for 2-4 people(or two people with leftovers), I like to use small 2-5 pound pumpkins as soon as they show up at the farmers’ markets and produce stands. A pumpkin in this size range will…
Why I Don’t Place Much Value In RDA’s(Recommended Daily Allowances)
I do not place much value on our government’s nutritional recommendations. Whether they are called RDA’s(recommended daily allowances) or MDR’s(minimum daily requirements) or some other alphabet combination, all of these guidelines are based on the premise that everyone must take…
More Mangos For Hearty Health
The mango has long been called the “king of fruits” for its combination of taste, aroma and health promoting properties. Eating a mango will get you all of the major vitamins and minerals along with a good dose of healthy…
What Do Bitter Greens Add To A Healthy Whole Food Diet?
Bitter greens add a lot of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory packed nutrition to any healthy whole food diet. The bitterness is caused by numerous phytontrients that repel insect pests, bacterial invaders and fungal growth but are good for us. Bitter greens…
Tomatoes Are The Taste Of Summer And Fall
Ask most people and they will tell you tomatoes are vegetables. Tomatoes are actually fruits, however, and are also technically berries. Which reminds me of a quote I heard a while back: “knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit,…