What’s for dinner? This is one of my favorite meals. But it’s not just for adults! If you scroll down, you’ll see a photo my 6 year-old son, River, eating his bone marrow. Why bone marrow? Because it is chock full of healthy fats, DHA, and fat soluble vitamins, which are all incredibly important for …
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Ladies, Ditch the Bra for Your Health
I realize it may feel some combination of uncomfortable, unprofessional, or unnecessarily provocative to go braless. Societal convention has most of us trussing up before going out. If you’re reading this at home, do me a favor and unhook. Then keep reading. There’s evidence of a relationship between bras + breast cancer Yes, seriously. DRESSED …
What I Eat For Breakfast? FAT
If breast milk is the only food we can accept (hopefully) as a template for human consumption, then we must put the much maligned saturated fat in its rightful place. At the center of the meal. I, for one, am certain that millions of years of evolution did not result in a faulty energy storage …
Eat Weeds — A Garden Grows All Around Us!
If you listened to the health coach panel at the recent Cranford, NJ food event, you may recall me saying EAT WEEDS in response to a question about how to better afford organic food. I meant it. Educating ourselves about the already growing garden is a step by step process. It is more important to …
GM Food: Failed Promises, Toxic Impacts – Part 2
Yesterday, in Part 1, I covered some of the impacts (none of them positive) of GE farming and Roundup (glyphosate) use on seeds and crops. Today, I am going to cover what I learned from third generation Iowa farmer Howard Vlieger about how they are affecting both animals and humans, in alarming ways. Serious internal …
GM Food: Failed Promises, Toxic Impacts – Part 1
I have a new friend. His name is Howard Vlieger, and he is a third generation Iowa farmer. I started asking him questions about the food I buy in the grocery store to feed my family. Yikes! Much of the knowledge Howard possesses can only be fully grasped after decades upon decades of raising animals …
Meat Me, a Former Vegetarian
There I was, eight coolers filled to the brim with ‘the goods,’ crossing state lines. It wasn’t an illegal pickup, but one almost just as alarming for a former vegetarian. I was transporting a quarter ton of various meat products, including sausage, beef, turkey, pork, and poultry, in my car. It was my turn in …
Fluoride: Cavity-Free or Killing Me?
Many countries have never adopted community water fluoridation and many are removing it. Beyond the draconian measure of what amounts to a forced, one size fits all prescription, fluoridation is having further reaching effects. According to a 2012 Harvard Public Health Study, evidence is growing that cognitive and developmental issues including lower IQ, is being …