Love Giving Thanks: Turkey Thoughts
You gotta love Thanksgiving. Delicious food, gratitude, and generosity joyous enough, but to top it off, there's pie. Yum!Yet, for the last few years, come this time of year, we start to think about a New York Times piece a few years back about the "humane" slaughtering that certain “privileged” turkeys experience. We’re talking the 1%ers here. It may or may not be news to you but some fancy NY Hudson Valley (and similar local farm) birds get a one-two blessing of a higher ...
Can Fine Artisanal Cheese Be Cruelty-Free? Treeline Treenut Cheese Says Yes!
We are a cheesy culture, with cheese a leading ingredient in meals, recipes and menus everywhere. Cheese is a key part of comfort foods like pizza, mac and cheese, cheesecake (see our dairy-free recipes), and of course wine and cheese. In fact, at the recent Natural Products Expo East in Baltimore, cheese featured prominently in many products.Yet, we often hear that cheeses – and all dairy products (butter included) -- are not so good for human health, having been linked to heart ...
True Health Care: Functional Formularies Revolutionizes Liquid Meal Replacement with Real Organic Food
It’s called Liquid Hope, made by Functional Formularies, but maybe it should be called Liquid Love. Robin Gentry McGee, the company’s founder, created the product – an organic whole food meal replacement – as a labor of love for her father, who had a traumatic physical injury. Until then, Robin (like most of us) had no idea that what usually goes down for hospital nutrition is anything but. Then she woke up.Sadly, today, the standard liquid nutrition in most US medical institutions ...
Watch: I Can’t Be Vegan Because…. DF Mavens Makes Ice Cream No Excuse!
We often hear from people who say they want to go vegan, and they get it on an intellectual level, since plant-based eating has been shown to be good for body (health), mind (function) and soul (ease), but their various cravings won’t allow it. Among the most-cited can't-live-without foods is ice cream, with its yummy sweet cold creaminess -- for many it is a must-have treat.Well, good news! DF Mavens makes some of the best ice cream we've ever tasted -- dairy or non-dairy -- no ...
Cheers for Cibaderm Cannabidiol: Watch Now
Top Five Natural Products 2013 -- This year at the Baltimore Natural Products Expo East, US Hemp Oil unveiled its Cibaderm line of products, along with CanChew Gum, Cibdex tinctures, and a very high strength "medical grade" hemp oil. The common thread? They all contain cannabidiol (CBD), derived from industrial hemp, that many may already know about from its use as a medicine dispensed at cannabis outlets, lawful in many states.For those of us who live in less forward-thinking...
Baltimore Expo East 2013 Products – Top Natural Trends for 2014
Twice a year, once on the East Coast and once on the West, it’s Natural Products Expo time, an enormous trade show for “natural” products with thousands of booths representing thousands more products. The wares range from organic items (think lots of chips and dips and convenience food) to health/beauty products to straight-up supplements and everything “natural” in between, including the enormous and still growing business infrastructure that feeds the multi-billion dollar indust...
Conscious Cookery: Savoring Our Attention
In the last few decades, meditation has undergone a media makeover. Once the province of Eastern mystics, oddballs, hippies and woo-woo adherents, it’s now mainstream, touted as a treatment for high blood pressure, auto-immune diseases, cancer, PTSD, depression and more. Top universities and scientists are hooking up long time meditators to discover what’s going on as practitioners engage in the simplest of acts – simply paying attention to their own minds. No matter the specific ...
For Optimum Health in 2015, Feds Start Now
Want to really get ahead of the food curve? Think 2015.Follow the lead of those hard working public health experts, who are already doing just that.Federal guidelines have been around for quite a while (wow-there was a "meat group" back in the day, now called "protein"). Since 1980, every five years, the USDA and HHS issue dietary guidelines and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee convened its first meeting about 9 weeks ago. While it may not matter to many of us, these ...
New Year’s Lessons from the Romans – Eat Cabbage
De brassica quod concoquit: on the medicinal value of the cabbage according to the Roman Marcus Cato.Cabbage has long been known to promote health. Cato puts it well:Brassica est quae omnibus holeribus antistat [It is the cabbage which surpasses all other vegetables] Nam venae omnes ubi sufflatae sunt ex cibo, non possunt perspirare [For when all the veins are gorged with food, they cannot breathe]He continues: Cabbage promotes general physical health and claims to be a ...
