Why we should not peel our fruits and vegetables If you want to get more nutrition from all of your fruits and vegetables, stop peeling them and eat the skin, too. And with the price of food these days, I…
The Two Biggest Excuses For Not Eating A Healthy Whole Food Diet Make No Sense
The two excuses When people talk to me about why they don’t eat a healthy whole food diet, cost and time are always at the top of the list. People seem to be convinced that eating healthy whole foods is…
The Backyard Garden Revisited – Growing Your Own
I think the most important part of growing at least a little of our own food is building and maintaining a connection with the soil and the earth. Even if you only grow a few herb plants in small pots…
What Is A Healthy Whole Food Diet?
What are whole foods? Whole foods are foods that are as close to the way nature designed them as possible. I also think of them as “real” foods. Carrots or potatoes just pulled from the soil and rinsed with clean…
4 Ways To Add Variety To A Healthy Whole Food Diet
Eating a wide variety of healthy whole foods is the key to maximum health. It is easy, though, to fall into the habit of eating only what is readily available and easily prepared. It is also easier to eat what…
Braised Oxtail Recipe
This braised oxtail recipe uses an inexpensive but flavorful cut of beef in a one pot meal. Braising cooks the meat thoroughly, making it tender enough to fall off of the bone. Plenty of fresh vegetables balance the richness of…
Don’t Pay Attention To The Latest Superfoods
Superfoods have been back in the news recently with posts on several food/health blogs and other sites. These are the foods that we can’t live without. If we do not eat them regularly we cannot be really healthy. They have…
Variety Maximizes Whole Food Health
Variety maximizes whole food health. Variety in any diet also makes the diet more sustainable for the long term. A healthy whole food diet is different from most diets that concentrate on weight loss or muscle-mass gain or some other…
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…
Eat Carrots For More Than Carotenoids
Most people think of orange when carrots are mentioned. This is because almost all commercially grown carrots world-wide are orange varieties. Most carrots did not become orange until after the 17th century, however, and it was politics in the Netherlands…