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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Eat More Kale vs Chick-Fil-A – and new restaurant opens in Wichita If you have ever eaten at Chick-Fil-A or seen their advertisements, you’ll know that they use cows saving themselves from being eaten to suggest we buy more chicken with their ‘Eat More Chikin’ campaign. But have you heard of Eat More Kale? And…
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Organic food more affordable in this part of the ‘Heartland’ – apples have made it! Doing a quick shop in my local Dillons last week, I was pleased and surprised to notice this price match. (See photos below). Pink Lady Apples (non-organic) $1.99 a pound Organic apples (Fuji), also $1.99 a pound Why buy…
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Rhubarb Crumble When buying fruits and veggies in our local supermarket in Wichita, I often buy things that the person on the checkout doesn’t recognize. This happened a short while ago with rhubarb, a favoritefruit of mine which looks a bit like red celery but that has a sweet, tart, flavor to it when cooked (can’t…
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My sensitive children – in my opinion, in my experience… I’m going to start this post with a great quote from one of my favorite judges on the tv series The Good Wife. Don’t know if you follow that series but there is a judge on there that all the lawyers do much better with if…
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Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution – 8pm Eastern/7pm Central on ABC, Tuesday nights are definitely ACTIVE on my DVR I followed the first series of Food Revolution based in Huntingdon, West Virginia, and have watched the first episode of this series based in Los Angeles, CA. If you’re not familiar with Jamie Oliver or the Food…
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Why members of the public are rallying over GMOs and labeling of our foods GMOs stand for Genetically Modified Organisms, and you are probably eating them somewhere in your diet. Did you know that? Probably not, because they’re not labeled. Just this weekend all over the USA, GMO rallies were organized to spread awareness of…
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It can feel overwhelming to learn to be a mother – and now there’s the ‘natural stuff’, too? As moms we’ve been through many cycles including the most major one of all – giving birth and learning to raise a child. When my mother first had my brother and myself, she was told that formula…
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Natural foods markets – helpful in a number of ways I headed into my local natural food market today for a number of reasons. I wanted something different for lunch, I needed a couple of homeopathic remedies in a hurry, and I needed deodorant (I prefer the chemical free kind). My local natural food market…
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Have you seen the ads reassuring us that High Fructose Corn Syrup is a good thing? I had noticed these ads being shown later last year and early this year, saying that High Fructose Corn Syrup or HCFS is ‘just like sugar’ and ‘one less thing to worry about’. And I thought to myself…hmnnnn…. This…
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The vagus nerve…nerves? A good friend of mine who has been working with her own health issues over the last 10 years or so has regularly been talking with me over the phone about the importance of our vagus nerve/nerves, and how a number of factors can degenerate these nerves and cause us multiple health…
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Intuitive eating for flu remedies – e.g. ‘eating what you feel like’ (within reason!) My oldest daughter age 8, came down with a fever last Saturday night, followed by coughing and sneezing and general tiredness. Fortunately for me, she’s always been pretty good at self care, even around age 3-4 knowing when she’s not feeling…
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