by Dr. Michael Wald Day 1 Breakfast: Amaranth Grain w/ Nectarines Lunch: Anasazi Bean Soup w Fresh Sprout Salad Snack: Celery Sticks & Almonds Dinner: Baked Halibut w Olive/Tomato Garnish & Garlic Kale Snack: Fresh Melon Day 2 Breakfast: 1 cup Organic Plain Kefir w/ Fresh Blueberries Lunch: Vegetable Chicken Salad Stuffed Tomatoes Snack: Carrot [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What are the new nutrition standards for school lunches that have some students boycotting their cafeterias and discarding the food? – Melissa Makowsky, Trenton, NJ Indeed, some 31 million American kids participating in the federally supported National School Lunch Program have been getting more whole grains, beans, fruits and vegetables in their diets—whether [...]
by Melinda Myers Don’t let fall or potentially frosty temperatures stop you from enjoying garden- fresh produce. Extend the nutritional value and homegrown flavor into your fall and early winter meals with the help of short season crops and season extending strategies. Lettuce, spinach, radishes, turnips, and beets are quick to mature from seed to [...]
Travel Consultant Offers Advice Based on 20 Years of Experience By Ellen Paderson As exciting as long-distance travel is, changing time zones can affect your sleep and alertness. Jet lag used to be considered a state of mind, but studies show the condition results from an imbalance in our body’s natural ‘biological clock’ when we [...]
Sadly for our world and its biodiversity, whales are still being killed despite an international ban on commercial whaling. Indeed, rampant whaling over the last two centuries has decimated just about every whale population around the globe. According to Greenpeace, many whale species are down to around one percent of their estimated former abundance before [...]
Along with the rise in the popularity of organic food has come an increased awareness about the dangers lurking on so-called “conventionally produced” (that is, with chemical pesticides and fertilizers) foods. “There is a growing consensus in the scientific community that small doses of pesticides and other chemicals can have adverse effects on health, especially [...]
If you are thinking about, needing to or have been living a gluten-free lifestyle and want some support, you should probably check out Living Gluten-Free for Dummies, by Danna Korn (leading authority on the diet). It’s one of the few references anyone will need to revamp their life for GF living. I have to admit, [...]
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