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Saturated Fat *IS* Healthy!
challenging politically correct nutrition
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 and ...
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 ...
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…
Did your holiday indulgences leave you craving more and more sugar and other sweetened foods? Want to know how to kick your sugar cravings to the curb in less than ten minutes? If you’ve been wondering how to beat sugar cravings without relying on will power alone, I am about to make your day. Maybe your week! Or your month! Heck, why not call a spade a spade and say I’ll make your whole year?
Everybody eats. And hopefully, you enjoy doing it! I know I do!! But recently, I’ve heard a number of people, one of my own kids included, confess to me that while they do like tasty food, they would rather take a pill every day to meet all their nutritional needs (if such a pill existed)….
