posts tagged "diet"
Slow Food
Posted on May 3, 2013
Access to clean food is a basic human rights issue; hence my passion for the Slow Food movement. I like food. You may have guessed as much by perusing the 700 recipes on my website. You may also notice that it is gluten-free, grain-free recipes that have appeared here since 2006, the year I launched
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Gluten Free Is Not Healthy
Posted on July 11, 2012
Photo by Robert Couse-Baker. Hopefully, people have begun to realize that the gluten free diet is not a shortcut to health. Gluten Free is not healthy? Blasphemy –you must think someone has hijacked my blog, but it’s true. Just because a food is gluten free does not mean it is healthy. Sadly, the recent popularity of
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The Gluten Free Diet
Posted on June 29, 2010
For me, diet is a four letter word, I doubt you’ll find it very often on this website. I don’t spend a lot of time discussing gluten free around here either. That’s because I take it as a given that the food I eat will be gluten free, that’s just part of my life at
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Superfoods: the Almighty Almond
Posted on May 1, 2009
Almonds are in. And guess what? They’re good for you. Almonds are easy to incorporate into your everyday routine. Eat them as a snack (raw or dry roasted), or use in your baked goods to reap the numerous benefits of this incredible superfood. Almonds are high in fiber, vitamins, minerals and fat. Yes, that’s fat.
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The Joy of Food
Posted on August 15, 2007
Up until now, I have kept my posts short and (mostly) impersonal. Today I want to do something different. I am going to explain a few main components of my diet. Yes, I do have celiac disease. And yes, I am gluten free. However, I consider my diet to be far beyond gluten free. I
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A Pill for Celiac?
Posted on May 27, 2007
No. There is no pill for celiac disease. Could this be what makes it one of the most misdiagnosed diseases in our country? If doctors and drug companies made money from gluten free cookies, perhaps we’d have more thorough screening. However, since there is no profit-making pharmaceutical remedy for this disease, it seems that much
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Book Review: Paleo Diet
Posted on May 3, 2007
One of the most sane, common sense approaches to eating that I have seen in all my years of researching food and holistic living, The Paleo Diet is a favorite. The knowledgeable Loren Cordain, Ph.D., takes us back to the pre-agrarian diets of our ancestors. Yes, that’s the Stone Age, a time before the Agricultural
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Diagnosing Celiac Disease
Posted on April 17, 2007
UPDATE: I’ve posted a more current and thorough page with information and resources regarding celiac disease. “Celiac disease is a an autoimmune disorder that causes damage to the small intestine, which can lead to malabsorption of nutrients. A genetic intolerance to gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye and barley, triggers this destructive reaction of
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Product Review: Stevia
Posted on March 6, 2007
I adore , however, there are times when I want something sweet and don’t want to increase my blood sugar level. This is when I reach for stevia, an herb 300 times as sweet as sugar with a glycemic index (GI) of 0. This low glycemic, low carbohydrate sweetener is widely used in Japan. In
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