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II.A.4. Creating Your Diet

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Why I Stopped Eating Gluten Free. This post is from KS contributing writer Mary Voogt of Just Take A Bite.

Why I Stopped Eating Gluten Free

Some people think eating gluten free is a fad. How to Make Homemade Chicken Stock: The Complete Guide. Don’t be a Chicken… …in the kitchen.

How to Make Homemade Chicken Stock: The Complete Guide

Hannah Hepworth - Healing anxiety naturally, for women. Living With Phytic Acid. Preparing Grains, Nuts, Seeds and Beans for Maximum Nutrition Phytic acid in grains, nuts, seeds and beans represents a serious problem in our diets.

Living With Phytic Acid

This problem exists because we have lost touch with our ancestral heritage of food preparation. Instead we listen to food gurus and ivory tower theorists who promote the consumption of raw and unprocessed “whole foods;” or, we eat a lot of high-phytate foods like commercial whole wheat bread and all-bran breakfast cereals. But raw is definitely not Nature’s way for grains, nuts, seeds and beans. . . and even some tubers, like yams; nor are quick cooking or rapid heat processes like extrusion. Phytic acid is the principal storage form of phosphorus in many plant tissues, especially the bran portion of grains and other seeds. Why I Don’t Like Gluten-Free.

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Why I Don’t Like Gluten-Free

How to Make Bone Broth with Serious Gel {GUEST POST} Welcome!

How to Make Bone Broth with Serious Gel {GUEST POST}

If you wish you could eat more whole foods without breaking your budget, you're in the right place. Start here for my top 10 baby steps to better Kitchen Stewardship. Infographic: Just How Dangerous Is The Dye In Your Food? They used to put cocaine in Coca Cola.

Infographic: Just How Dangerous Is The Dye In Your Food?

Soaked Grain Recipes: A Gallery from Everywhere! Soaking Grains. Try Chia Seeds: mini-mission. With the launch of the Chia Chronicles, I thought a mini-mission about chia seeds was in order.

Try Chia Seeds: mini-mission

I first read about using chia seeds for endurance sports in the amazing book, Born to Run , that made me want to be a runner. More importantly, the book sparked my interest in what the Tarahumara eat. Food is one of, if not the top way to improve your health. Because the Tarahumara are free of our modern day diseases and conditions, it only makes sense to me, to learn more about what they eat. Aspiring runners or not, we all need to pay attention to our health and sometimes incorporate new food into our diet for improved health, (or drop food that is making us sick).

So here is your mini-mission, try chia seeds. Top 5 reasons to eat chia seeds: Beyond Soaking Grains. Many consumers are interested in soaking grains to improve their absorption of minerals, inspired by the popular cookbook Nourishing Traditions.

Beyond Soaking Grains

Soaking grains absolutely works to reduce phytic acid in food, but the devil is in the details and, sometimes, the details that you discover in the depths of a library, will set you free. Org. Millions of acres of genetically engineered (GMO) crops have been planted in the United States. Nearly two-thirds of the products on our supermarket shelves contain genetically engineered ingredients. Consumer polls show that 80-95% of Americans want GMO foods to be labeled – mainly so that we can avoid buying them! The British Medical Association has called for a global moratorium and/or ban on GMO foods and the New England Journal of Medicine warned that the allergenic potential of GMO’s is uncertain, unpredictable and untestable. Scientists warn that GMO foods may set off allergies, increase cancer risks, produce antibiotic-resistant pathogens, damage our food quality and produce dangerous toxins in our environment.

Genetic engineering may trigger allergies. Whole Food Kitchen Makeover Part 2: Stocking Your Real Food Kitchen. Today’s post is a continuation from Wednesday’s post on giving your kitchen a Whole Food Makeover.

Whole Food Kitchen Makeover Part 2: Stocking Your Real Food Kitchen

If you haven’t read that, start there first. Stand in Love, Not Judgment: Food Choices are Not an Issue. Young Yun 윤영석 via Compfight The other day I was curious how much other peoples’ kids were eating, because mine always eat a lot.

Stand in Love, Not Judgment: Food Choices are Not an Issue

They are constantly eating! They all beg for meals and snacks constantly. I posted a few examples of meals they had eaten in the previous few days at random, to show the sheer amount of food that they consume. What I expected was to hear a variety of “Oh, my kids eat that much too!” Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats ebooks download free. NewTrends Publishing; 2nd edition | 1999 | ISBN: 0967089735 | English | 688 pages | PDF | 28.05 MBA full-spectrum nutritional cookbook with a startling message--animal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Includes information on how to prepare grains, health benefits of bone broths and enzyme-rich lacto-fermented foods.

Modern Alternative Kitchen. Photo source. Two%20Stage%20Process. New Chapter Probiotic All-Flora, 120 Capsules: Health & Personal Care. Blue Ice Royal Butter Oil / Fermented Cod Liver Oil Blend - Capsules: Health & Personal Care. TEDxIowaCity - Dr. Terry Wahls - Minding Your Mitochondria.