Juice is fruit, so it’s healthy, right? Not really. First, let me make clear that I’m talking about the juice you find in bottles or juice boxes in the beverages aisle at a grocery store, not the stuff people make at home with a juicer or the purchased equivalents that have to be kept cold. […]
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Have you been convinced yet that what you feed your child has a significant impact on their health? My notes from a talk by Kelly Dorfman, author of What’s Eating Your Child?, (Cure Your Child with Food) seemed to resonate with many people. It’s always so clear to me that what we eat affects our
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“Wait, what is that?” That’s what came out of my mouth, in a nicely polite voice. In my head, I ninja-chopped the nurse’s hand, sending whatever she was trying to feed my 12-hour-old newborn flying across the room, and cried in my fiercest mama bear voice, “Don’t put anything in my baby’s mouth without my
Unrefined sugars can be SO confusing – sucanat, rapadura, panela, and muscovado. Not only are they unfamiliar in the culture, tough to find at your local grocery store, and a maze of nutritional myths. When you have 3-4 names for basically the same product it can be difficult to find an answer to the question,
Unrefined Dehydrated Whole Cane Sugar (Sucanat, Rapadura, Panela and Muscovado) Read More »
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to go one day without eating any refined sugar or artificial sweeteners. You’ll have to be a voracious label reader, as almost anything that comes in a box or bottle includes sugar, sometimes found as high fructose corn syrup, dextrose, sucrose, maltose, and more. You probably won’t
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to find at least one way to cut down on refined sugar this week because of the link between sugar and inflammation. My Story: White Sugar Free Last year for Lent, I was just beginning my real food journey, and I decided to give up all white
Give Up or Do More? The query, “What are you giving up for Lent?” just doesn’t cut it with me. It falls short of recognizing the three-fold purpose of Lent: prayer, fasting, AND almsgiving. I always try to say, “What are you DOING for Lent?” and I used to post my third graders’ “Lenten promises”
