I’m not the biggest recipe gatherer but sometimes I see some recipes that catch my eye so I thought I should try to collect them periodically, perhaps monthly. healthyepicurean – Blog – Savory Watermelon Herb Salad Roasted Garlic Heads, by the Dozen | A Gardener’s Table Cindy’s Amazing Raw Chocolate Pie
The liver requires numerous nutrients for phase II detoxification. The liver is versatile, in that it does need all of these nutrients which makes it so humans can detoxify with a wide variety of diets. Still some foods seem especially important to the process of liver detoxification. Originally I had planned to write out the …
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Ractopamine hydrochloride is fed to cows, pigs, and turkeys in the United States. It is currently banned in the European Union, China, and Taiwan (among others) and approved for use as animal feed in the United States, Canada, and Mexico (among others). It is sold under the brand names Paylean (for pigs) and Optaflexx (for cows). For …
There are many food additives that are, or at least, can be, derived from corn. I compiled this information from various sources and my own research. This list is not exhaustive but hopefully has the most commonly corn-derived additives. I wanted a list so here it is:
Several options are listed in this article: Home Canning, BPA-Free | A Gardener’s Table
Oral contraceptive and postmenopausal hormone usage both increase the risk of breast cancer. Oral contraceptive usage increases the risk of coronary heart disease. Postmenopausal hormone usage increases the risk of stroke. Findings: Some Highlights | Nurses’ Health Study
This is better written than anything I’m likely to come up with anytime soon. Read the whole thing: Why You Should NEVER Eat Vegetable Oil or Margarine! | Wellness Mama
In addition to all that I learned from training and practicing this past weekend I also picked up a few tips on foods out there that are high quality and worth trying. Harmless Harvest 100% Raw & Organic Coconut Water – quite possibly the most delicious coconut water that is not coming straight from a coconut. …
In researching some information of sugar I came across this helpful graphic of US sugar consumption:
One seemingly endless market is for “healthy sugar”. There is a lot of money in the marketing of various products as “healthy sugar” and “Agave” is certainly one of the success stories. The most important thing to understand about High Fructose Agave Syrup is that it is made in an almost identical way to High …
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