Monthly Archives: February 2012 - Part 2
Coconut Oil
Coconut Oilthe Most Stable Oil for Cooking and a Aid to Metabolism and Weight Loss Unrefined, extra virgin coconut oil is one of my favorite oil for cooking because, of all generally available oils, it is the most highly saturated. Coconut oil is 90 percent saturated, which means it holds up well to high heat,…
Sprouts for Health
Once any vibrant seeda whole grain, legume, bean, nut, or seedis soaked in enough water for long enough to breakdown its protective phytic acid, germination is started and soon a young plant is born. In its earliest few days, the plant first unfolds as a sprouta tender stem whose job it is to burrow through…
Spring Foods
Foods that attune us to the dry, cold weatherhearty soups and stews; sweet, sticky root vegetables and dried fruits; nuts and seeds; warming/moistening grains (e.g., oats); red meats and roasted marrow bones are warming, sustaining and perfect for winter. But these are also acid-/mucus-forming foods that require a little spring cleaning once winter bids farewell….
Sea Salt and the Salt “Problem”
Sea salt and table salt. All the sea salt in the world, whether found deep within mountain ranges, from salt flats, or evaporated by sun and wind in salt marshes, has its origin in the oceans and seas. Ocean water contains the complete array of earth elements, more than eighty in all. Wateroxygen and hydrogenaccounts…
Quality Sea Salts
The more whole foods we buy and prepare ourselves, the more leeway we have to experiment and have fun with artisanal, hand-crafted, mineral-rich salt, both through cooking and at the table. Because prepared foods explain 70%-80% of the salt consumed by Americans, just cooking meals that emphasize potassium-rich whole foods solves much of the problem….
Cod Liver Oil
There is hardly a disease in the books that does not respond well to cod liver oil, and not just infectious diseases but also chronic modern diseases like heart disease and cancer.link Fermented cod liver oil is my favorite source of vitamin D because you need very little, it is easy to store, and it…
March/April 2012: Welcoming Spring, Attuning to Spring
To read this newsletter in an easy-to-read pdf form, click here to download the file: March/April 2012 Newsletter.Thank you. A part of good health means attuning to the energy of the seasons. Energy and health go hand in hand because the essence of life itself really boils down to energy: The conglomerate of minerals that…