Can I go a day without corn? Well, sure. I did it yesterday—at least I think I did—and it wasn’t even hard. Not sure I’d want to do it for an extended period of time, however, as I’ll explain in a minute. But first, you may wonder why I did it in the first place. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Healthy eating'
Corn free, as free as the grass grows
April 18th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Environment, Food in the news, Healthy eating
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Eat your broccoli and be young, and here are some ideas for how
March 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Healthy eating, recipes, Research
Never mind what certain politicians say, broccoli is the it vegetable, as far as I’m concerned. And now, more than ever, I have science to back me up. Scientists at the University of California-Los Angeles has published a study that suggests that broccoli restores immune function. From the UCLA press release: [A substance in broccoli] […]
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Hello, Washington? Read this
March 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Hello, Washington? Read this · Farm Bill, Healthy eating, local food
I can’t say it any better, so I suggest you just go to the Cleaner Plate Club and read a plainspoken rant about what’s wrong with the Farm Bill.
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Can quick + easy = healthy in winter?
February 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Food preparation, Healthy eating, recipes
My sister was asking the other day about quick, easy and healthy recipes. This sister is a competent but largely uninterested cook who has a growing enthusiasm for eating healthful and and healthfully produced food. About three months of the year, including now, she is the chief cook at her household. The current bee in […]
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Soup’s on—again
January 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Food preparation, Healthy eating, recipes
Soup of this week: Vegetable-heavy lentil soup. It’s a warming, tasty soup to counter some of that luscious toffee. I made this soup from memory, as I couldn’t find the recipe I had in mind. I don’t have a nutritional analysis, but I can promise nevertheless that it’s low cal and high fiber. Lentil soup […]
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Forget healthy eating—there’s toffee
January 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Forget healthy eating—there’s toffee · Healthy eating
Just when I thought the holiday excess was behind me (no, that isn’t a pun; my excess goes to my midsection), my ex-stepmother gave me a box of Enstrom’s milk chocolate almond toffee. Inside the box is a pound of the most wonderful toffee ever. Top and bottom covered with a thin layer of chocolate […]
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