Brain health is a concern for everyone, the choices that we make throughout our lifetime determine how we age and how our brain will function especially in later years. People with a family history of brain disorders like Alzheimer’s or Dementia should to pay particular attention to lifestyle choices and dietary habits.Photo by Epicurrence on Unsplash Dementia Dementia […]
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The Healing Foods Cookbook by Gary Null
I grew up suffering from terrible allergies, sinus problems, and sinus headaches. I was shuffled from doctor to doctor, and put on medication after medication with no relief. In the late 1990s or early 2000s, I stumbled up on a PBS special with Gary Null, it kick-started my interest in nutrition and natural healing. I […]
Lemon-Dill Summer Vegetables with Creamy Polenta
There is a health food store not too far from my house that sells produce from local area farms. It’s an eclectic little place, there’s always a selection of limited batch vegetables or fruit that I’ve never seen before. This week it was elephant garlic scapes. I’ve heard of garlic scapes, but never elephant garlic […]
Vegan Chipotle Lentil Burgers
You never know what could be lurking in store-bought veggie burgers. What exactly is modified cellulose? Where does caramel color come from? Should we be eating l-cysteine hydrochloride? I recently discovered a new brand of veggie burger that I really liked, only to discover that the third ingredient listed on the package was oil. That’s […]
Grilled Corn Salsa
This all started with a beautiful set of knob onions I found at the local farmers market. Purple knob onions! Have you ever spotted a vegetable so pretty that you planned an entire meal around it? That’s exactly what I did. Most of my weekday meals are repetitive–beans, greens, and a sweet potato show up fairly […]