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Saturated Fat *IS* Healthy!
challenging politically correct nutrition
Health anxiety plagues everyone from time to time. We all wonder if that shooting pain in a random part of our body means something is seriously wrong, or if it's a random fluke. These are usually little things we contend with and then think no more of, but for some people, this anxiety can get ...
Best-selling author and founder of Food Renegade, Kristen Michaelis CNC has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2008. She's a passionate advocate for REAL FOOD -- food that's sustainable, organic, local, and traditionally-prepared according to the wisdom of our ancestors. She earned a Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) from Dallas Baptist University in Philosophy and Biblical Studies, then began her post-graduate journey as a researcher in the fields of health and nutrition. While she adores hats & happy skirts, nothing inspires her quite like geeking out over nutrition & sustainable agriculture. When her book ...
Anxiety used to be a thing that happened to other people. But then a few years ago, it started happening to me. Monthly. I had no tools in my tool belt to deal with it. I was a stranger in a foreign land, looking for intelligible signposts. It turns out, anxiety can be a monthly…
Most of us enjoy spending time outside in the warm, bright summer months, but it’s more difficult to make the most of our gardens in the winter. One of the main problems is that it’s harder to maintain outdoor spaces when it’s cold. If you’re hoping to use your yard and garden more this winter…
Oh, there are too many reasons to go into them all here. The one I want to explore today, though, isn’t about health or wellness or tradition. It’s about life. It’s about the undeniable truth that all life comes from death. Many turn to veganism in an attempt to “do no harm.” A lovely, poetic, beautiful idea. Those who embrace it through veganism want their life to be from that which is freely given; they don’t want to know, deep down, that their own place in this world came at the cost of another sacred life.
Yet it does. All life does. Let’s begin by looking at the root of all life — the soil.
The first time I heard about black seed oil, I was at the Fancy Food Winter trade show in San Francisco. I thought the oil was tasty, but wondered why anyone would cook with it. “Oh I don’t cook with it,” the person behind the booth said, “I take black cumin seed oil medicinally. About…
