This is a follow-up to the previous post “4 Ways To Add Variety To A Healthy Whole Food Diet”. Whole foods, especially when unpeeled and unseeded, just the way nature gives them to us, provide much better nutrition than more…
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…
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…
Wonderful Winter Squash For Whole Food Health
Winter squash is a wonderful source of nutrition for whole food health. These hard squashes should be part of any healthy whole food diet because of the combination of health benefits they bring to the table. Most varieties of winter…
Spiced Acorn Squash Recipe
Are you feeling the need for a healthy dose of vitamin A, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant compounds and fiber, too? Does it have to be fast and easy because you are short on time? How about cheap and widely available at…
The Importance Of Eating Wholes Instead Of Parts For Health
I want to give you even more reasons why it is so important for optimum health to eat a whole food diet rather than depend on supplements to supply our nutritional needs. In previous posts I have discussed how supplements…
Eat Chile Peppers For Spice And Nutrition
Chile peppers will add spicy heat, anti-inflammatory vitamins and lots of variety to any diet. From large to tiny, green to red to yellow and mild to scalding, there is a chile pepper available for every taste and to suit…
The More Herbs, The Merrier
Herbs’ concentrated flavors come from the concentrated vitamins, minerals, oils and micro-nutrients they contain. Some herbs, such as lavender and chamomile, produce proven physical changes in the mind and the body just from breathing in their aromas. Eating whole, fresh…
The Nutritional Bounty Of Seaweed
There are many varieties of edible seaweed, each with its own unique flavor and nutritional profile. All edible seaweeds share iodine, calcium, iron, copper, magnesium, zinc, sodium and potassium. All of them contain soluble fiber and protein. They all have…
Why Eat Grass Fed, Pasture Raised Dairy Products?
Why should we seek out and pay a premium price for grass fed and pasture raised dairy products? There are many good reasons: *Grass fed dairy products cost more than generally available commercial dairy products. Committing to eating only grass…