Disclaimer I am not a doctor. I am not a nutritionist. I am not a dietician. I am not a tax-preparer, a lawyer, a scientist, a phlebotomist, a bassoonist, a balloonist or a cop.
If you need medical or nutritional advice, please seek it out from a qualified professional. Because that's not me -- I am simply a curious and opinionated woman who loves butter.
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Passover will soon be upon us, and for many Passover means brisket, think what ham is to Easter. Brisket is one of the cornerstones of Jewish cooking — right up there with matzoh ball soup and whitefish.
It also happens to be a delicious, easy meal that anyone can include in their repertoire. The brisket is a wide, flat cut of beef from the breast or chest.
Ingredients:
One brisket (get a big one so you’ll have leftovers — it just gets more and more tender)
Onion or two
Garlic clove
Tomato paste
Beef stock . . .
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Earlier, I wrote this post about how grains were not nutritionally superior to other whole foods — fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, dairy, nuts and legumes.
In this post I will go even further by saying that grains are actually bad for you. As in poison, albeit a slow-acting and often super-delicious poison.
I was originally going to write about various negative aspects of grains, but instead I decided to focus today on one issue: gluten.
It’s the sticky stuff in pasta and bread. It’s found in wheat and other grains such . . .
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So it turns out that eating a low-fat diet might not just make you crazy and violent — it can give you a heart disease or stroke!
Every time researchers discover (through the scientific method) a truth contrary to the bunk peddled by large agri-business, quacks who sell dieting books and programs and the regulators and legislators who are bought and paid for, they call it a “paradox” or a “conundrum.”
Take the “cholesterol conundrum” for example. High cholesterol is linked to higher serotonin and low cholesterol is linked to low serotonin. To . . .
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So you know how Whole Foods goes on ad nauseam about supporting local farmers? Apparently their definition of local includes China. Watch this news clip. It is not recent, so I don’t know if WF has made any major changes since, but it is an eye-opener.
To sum up the video, much of the food available at Whole Foods, especially under their own 365 brand, is from China. I just went and checked on a bag of frozen spinach in the freezer. Yup, in small type . . .
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Update: The deal is officially over. The final price was $44 a voucher.
Eating healthy can be really expensive — here’s a deal that will only last until noon today, March 4. 2010.
For $45, get a $125 voucher for dry-aged, grass-fed, hand-trimmed, free-range, organic meat from Greensbury Market. They are in Gaithersburg, Md, but THEY DELIVER.
The more people who sign up, the lower the cost is. If we get enough people it may go down to $31!
Click here for mote details. This will take you to Jasmere, the . . .
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Guiding principles: We should strive to produce & eat food that is:
Organic
Humanely raised (animals on pasture, not in factories)
Grown locally when possible
Whole and unrefined (real maple syrup instead of high-fructose corn syrup)
Processed as little as possible (raw milk instead of pasteurized and homogenized)
Nutrient-dense (enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and probiotics)
Free of additives and preservatives
Free of synthetic and chemical ingredients
Not genetically modified
Traditionally produced and prepared
Myth Buster Myth: Saturated fat (animal fat) is bad for you.
Truth: Saturated fats are necessary for health. It's polyunsaturated fats (most vegetable oils) and hydrogenated fats that cause disease.
Myth: Fat makes you fat.
Truth: Sugar makes you fat -- whether it comes in the form of table sugar, grains or starches.
Quote of the week: I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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