Thanks So Much! Sweet Potato Pie – No Eggs, No Dairy, No Problem
This is Pie Season, one of our favorite times of the year. Even for those who avoid Thanksgiving, there are chilly days and holidays beyond, turning thoughts to feasts and the sweet endings they can bring.Sweet potatoes are one of those nutrient-dense foods, with one medium sweet potato providing more than the recommended daily allowance of Vitamin A and 35-50% of daily Vitamin C. They are high in potassium (great for stressful times), calcium, folate, manganese, fiber, many B vitamins ...
Sweet Potato Cakes and Mango Salsa: Healthy Happy Tasty
Sweet potatoes are an amazing food, loved by most primates everywhere. Not only delicious but they're loaded with Vitamin A and a good amount of Vitamin C and magnesium plus the kind of fiber that promotes good digestion. These complex carbs are also low-glycemic, meaning diabetic friendly.While health isn't always the number one reason to eat (hey, there's nothing wrong with pure pleasure on occasion), when I find myself needing to promote healing, especially digestive health, I make ...
Revenge of the Giant Veggies: Sas-Squash Zucchini Soup
This time of year, the zucchini is out of control. Enormous fruits that seem to grow 6 inches or more each day, even of the delicious Costata Romanesco heirloom variety, that reputedly produces lower yields than hybrids. What to do? Soup, cake, pancakes, gratins, and raw "pasta" all beckon.This soup was inspired by The Veggie Queen, one of today's leading pressure cooking experts and is helping us cope with the Sas-Squashes that threaten to take over the garden! Simple to prepare, ...
One Calorie Blubber
The Real Thing - Diet Sodas Make Us Fatties. Ever wonder why the fattest among us often walk around with a large diet soft drink? Now an answer is suggested by science We've known it in our guts for a long time and chances are you have too. You know all those folks scarfing down the super-sized meals along with diet drinks? They're getting fat, not only from the fries and such, but from the diet soft drinks themselves. Though it seemed so obvious, we now have ...
Eating In and Out of Order
Do I look fat in this?Eating disorders, especially the "classics" - anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating - are traumatic, no question. These eating patterns-gone-haywire (leave aside for a sec just being waaay too fat, which is obviously out-of-order too) not only interfere with living a happy, healthy life, they can have permanent and devastating consequences.Like lots of people, we've seen this up close and it's painful to see. And surely, one thing we know is ...
In a Rut? Create Your Gut!
and security of our food supply is not all there is to know in order to wake up and eat better. Of course, we all want clean good food. But, one of the most important concepts to help you wake up is the phenomenon of conscious metabolism. Experience shows that just as we can literally "change our mind," by changing how we think, perceive and interact with the world that surrounds us, so too can we "change our metabolism."There is much talk about how the body's metabolic meter, which ...
It’s On the Label, OK? Now Get Off Our Backs!
A new coordinated effort from some of the world's largest food companies will be announced next week at the American Dietetics Association annual conference -- the Smart Choices Program. With backers that include food companies Kraft Foods, General Mills Inc., Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo Inc., ConAgra, Kellog Co., and Unilever US, retailers like WalMart, and public health-oriented groups such as the Tufts' Friedman School of Nutrition Science and the American Heart Association, it's a ...
