Tag: Recipes and Healthy Eating

Canola oil is made from something you might not expect, so it’s a good idea to check for allergies, just in case. What Is Canola Oil? Until yesterday, I honestly thought Canola oil came from something called a Canola—maybe a plant that looked vaguely corn-like. When I finally looked it up, I learned that Canola…
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Soy, soybean oil, and soy lecithin – beware… Soy the hidden filler – because it’s cheap. That’s what one of my friends told me when I mentioned that my youngest child has been found to have a soy allergy. I was complaining to my friend about how many foods have soy in them.  This is…
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Do GMOs (genetically modified organisms) cause more allergic reactions in the highly sensitive? British Food vs. American Food — Is It the Lack of GMOs? A recent visit to the UK — and no allergic reactions. Could GMOs be the missing link? This past June and July, I had the joy of returning to my…
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Aspartame and your kidneys – are you ‘on it’? Recently met another online blogger…@quitospare on Twitter who had tweeted this article about the latest diet Coke ad campaign, inferring that young people will be ‘on’ e.g. energized and ready to go if they drink the diet coke product. Seriously? It contains aspartame amongst other things…which…
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2013 flu – aka the Zombie Flu Thought I’d drop a quick post about the flu before the weekend starts – we had it two weeks ago and I am still ‘in recovery’. I think people are calling it the Zombie Flu because it makes you sit around like a zombie, I know I did. …
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Organic turkey – my first year cooking an organic turkey for Christmas I’ve been buying organic veggies for quite a while and this year for the first time decided to cook an organic turkey. I chose a 13lb organic turkey from Simple Truth – it’s the first year I’ve seen turkeys available from them. Now…
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Juicing for health – one woman’s take on how to start juicing from Sarah at Mom On A Spiritual Journey Juicing for health IS actually easier than I thought.  When it came to giving up caffeine a while back, I thought that was going to be difficult too, but it was relatively painless since I…
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Nothing like a cup of joe in the morning? Coffee – many of us like to drink it (sometimes I think many adults are fueled by it!). I remember reading an article on an airplane once that described caffeine as ‘the largest uncontrolled drug on the planet‘. That may be, but many people ‘use’ caffeine…
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