Everyone these days wants to lose weight fast. One of the best things you can do to easily drop pounds without radically changing your lifestyle (besides going ultra-low carb and ditching grains altogether) is to eat coconut oil.
Coconut Oil Charms Health Food Community
You knew it would happen eventually. Coconut oil has been making headlines again — and this time it’s not playing the part of a villainous saturated fat. The New York Times ran a piece on the nutrient-rich hero of vegetable fats last week, and (wonder of wonders!) decided it was good for you, in addition to being downright tasty.
How To Choose A Good Coconut Oil
It’s no secret that I am a fan of coconut oil. But how do you pick the best, most healthy coconut oil? How do you know whether to get a refined or unrefined oil? What do all those labels like “virgin,” “extra-virgin,” and “expeller-pressed” mean? What’s the difference between the cheap coconut oil I see on my grocery store shelf and the high-quality oil I can buy online?
5 Steps to Transition to Safer Personal Care Products
Want to make sure you are not unknowingly using harmful products on your body? Here are five simple steps you can take to transition to safer products and avoid many of the toxins found in products currently on the market.
GIVEAWAY: Wilderness Family Naturals Goody Bag
I’ve lined up something I am absolutely THRILLED about: an online Treasure Hunt! This is not your average giveaway, though the prize is certainly mouthwatering — a goody bag from Wilderness Family Naturals that includes a Popcorn making kit (complete with an organic spice mix and THE perfect healthy popcorn popping oil), soaked and dehydrated mixed nuts for snacking, and even a quart of one of my favorite coconut oils!
2009 You Were A Good Year
Everybody’s doing it. Why shouldn’t I?
These are the top ten hottest posts of 2009 here at Food Renegade — the most viewed, most commented. Some of them are simply useful information; others are quite controversial. Hope you enjoy this look back!
Coconut Water Is Nature’s Gatorade
Coconuts have been so maligned in dietary circles that those of us who’ve jumped on the coconut bandwagon and started singing it’s praises are often maligned ourselves.
Coconuts are mostly saturated fat, so surely we must be absolutely crazy to promote it as a healthy food.
But — wonder of wonders — coconut is making a comeback! And it’s not just in circles like ours where we challenge politically correct nutrition in favor of traditional food wisdom. You’ll never believe what I just saw. ABC News NOW ran a story on coconuts in which they interviewed a registered dietitian, and the dietitian only had positive things to say.
Fat Is Where It’s At
For decades, the USDA food pyramid has been telling us to eat less fat. When they launched their campaign, only 14% of Americans were obese. Today, that number’s at more than 30%, with another 30% of the population being classified as “overweight.”
So what’s wrong? Did the public fail to get the message? Are we all secretly pigging out on high fat foods? Did we all suddenly turn sedentary?
By the late 1990s, more than 90% of American consumers reported eating low-fat products, and roughly two-thirds of us believed “a need exists for food ingredients that can replace the fat in food products.” By all appearances, we embraced the low-fat message with open arms. Yet we still gained weight.
Top Five Thursdays — Recipes And Controversies
Now you absolutely have to find out what the controversy’s all about, don’t you? Recipes are a great promise, too, as everyone loves to discover a new recipe (and you won’t want to miss out on these).
Food – Not Nutrients – Is The Fundamental Unit In Nutrition
We need to shift our focus away from “nutrients” and towards “food” in order to understand the effects nutrition has on health. Why? Because whole foods are so much more complex than nutritional science can understand.
Focusing too narrowly on nutrients has obscured the true value of eating Real Food.