Category: Healthy Food
Because access to healthful and uncontaminated food should be a human right.
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Dairy Free Gut-Friendly Freezer Chocolate
Nichole, the author of Hopecentric.com, inspired my family to seek real food for wellness and healing. Her journey to healing her daughter from FPIES using the GAP protocol was instrumental in converting our family from the standard American (SAD) diet to consuming organic foods, free-range meats and natural probiotics found in ferments such as kombucha,…
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8 Energizing Foods To Eat After An Intense Workout
A workout is only complete with the right diet, in terms of amount as well as quality. This diet is divided into two parts – post-workout and pre-workout. A balance between these two ensures healthy and proper workout results. Let us look at it a bit into detail. “I will beat her. I will train…
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Enjoy your Harvest. Save Your Seeds.
Local seed co-op shares tips and tricks to seed saving. Snake River Seed Cooperative is an excellent resource for seeds as they are: Locally Adapted to high desert soils and climate, meaning they’ll be right at home in your Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Nevada, eastern Oregon or Washington, or northern Arizona and New Mexico…
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Did You Know the Banana’s Health Benefits
You’ll never look at the humble banana the same way again after discovering the many health benefits and reasons to add them to your diet.They can help to combat depression, increase intelligence, cure hangovers, relieve morning sickness, protect against kidney cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, and blindness. Plus they can even cure the itch of a mosquito…
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Detox Your Body with Fermented Foods
The easiest way to support your body’s natural ability to detox is to consume fermented foods and beverages. These easy-to-digest, mineral-rich traditional foods contain important nutrients including Vitamins A, D, E, K2, B and C, minerals, enzymes and friendly bacteria (probiotics). These elements not only boost immunity and digestion function, but also support overall health…
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20 Ways to Take Advantage of the Health Benefits of Coconut Oil
Coconut oil has many health benefits. There are hundreds of uses for coconut oil in the kitchen, with multiple ways of incorporating coconut oil into a healthy diet. As a cooking oil, replace polyunsaturated oils, “vegetable oils” such as corn and soy, with coconut oil. Coconut oil should be your main cooking oil, as it…
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Going Vegan To Save the Planet? Consider Going Organic.
Organic farming isn’t just about producing more nutritious food from healthy soils, or about omitting the use of pesticides, fertilizers, genetically modified organisms, antibiotics or growth hormones. At its core, it is a system of agriculture that addresses a range of environmental and economic issues that go beyond the personal health. Organic farming looks to…
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Popular Hummus Brands Contaminated with Herbicide
Is your healthy hummus is filled with glyphosate a weed killer that’s a probable carcinogen and endocrine disruptor? Moms Across America released test results of 10 hummus samples from 8 brands and all but 1 tested positive for glyphosate weedkiller (Roundup herbicide). Lilly’s Hummus representative stated that they source their garbanzo beans from organic farmers…
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The Nutrient Rich Onion
Onions are rich in conventional nutrients as well as unique phytonutrients. An onion contains vitamins A, B6, C, Folate and the minerals Calcium, Chromium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Potassium, Selenium, Sodium, and Zinc. Medicinally, Onion is an analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative, diaphoretic, diuretic, expectorant, stimulant, and vulnerary. Onion is excellent for treating coughs,…
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Brand Names with Glyphosate Residue Free Certification
Glyphosate is the most used pesticide in the World and has the highest public profile of any chemical used in food production. The revelation from WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in 2015 that glyphosate is a ‘probable carcinogen’ has led to consumers across the globe asking for transparency regarding the levels of…