The 2 Most Important Words in Food
For your family, the two most important words in food are, without a doubt, “shop local”! I have written before about the fraudulent description of products as “free-range.” The label “organic” is often used to promote food when it doesn’t much matter whether the food is organic or not,... Read the full story
Egg Recall
If you missed my little essays on the health benefits of local eggs and the absolute fraud of the free range designation, the following add the icing on the cake for you. Enjoy. Egg Recall Expanded by Hillary Martin, krextv.com Egg Recall List: What You Need to Stay Safe by Neil Katz, CBS News Egg recall:... Read the full story
Escape the Big Box Nightmare
My #1 reference on the subject of growing vegetables at home for yourself and your family is without question the April/May 2009 issue of Mother Earth News on the best crops by region. This issue tells you all you need to know on crops that naturally thrive where you live. My overriding goal is to send... Read the full story
Wow! Free-Range Chickens
Have you finally found the fresh food jackpot? No, not by a long shot. The designation “free-range” is among the biggest frauds in the food industry. Trust me, I know this firsthand. On a Harley road trip last summer, Deb and I decided to ride to northern New England to tour what is arguably the... Read the full story
A Quarter-Acre Bounty!
On just one quarter acre, you can harvest 1,400 pastured eggs, 60 pounds of fruit, 2,000 pounds of vegetables, 75 pounds of nuts, and, if you’re into barbecue, 280 pounds of pork. And that’s just for starters. By concentrating on vertical gardening and raised beds, you can improve yield and operate... Read the full story
The Big 4 Health Killers
The health of your family includes the avoidance of four major good-health killers found in overabundance in the big-box commercial supermarkets. This is one of the many reasons I won’t shop in the food behemoths. Sugar, salt, man-made trans fats, and omega-6-overloaded polyunsaturated fats are the... Read the full story
Preventing Eye Puffiness With Cucumbers
Do you know why slices of cold cucumbers placed on eyes help reduce puffiness? Cucumbers contain ascorbic acid and caffeic acid, two natural compounds that also help prevent water retention. Cucumbers—members of the watermelon, squash, pumpkin family—are loaded with vitamin C and fiber. They also... Read the full story
Life Savior – #1 Action for Your Family’s Health
Want to take the first step with me toward a dramatically improved lifestyle and lifesaving course of action for your family? Of course you do. Each of us has our family’s health as our first priority. OK, then. Here is how to begin today. Your first move is to boycott big box supermarkets. I have... Read the full story
Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Kill 14,000 a Year
By some accounts, over 14,000 Americans a year die from antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Where are they picked up? Hospitals! Staph is a name you will hear mumbled under breaths in hospitals coast to coast. Staph and other forms of lethal bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. What’s... Read the full story
The 3 Best Oils
The three good guys from my last quiz on fats are high-oleic safflower, high-oleic sunflower, and olive oil. Safflower, corn, sunflower, cottonseed, and corn oils are all super high in omega-6. The problem is the imbalance between omega-6 fatty acids and omega-3 fatty acids. All are polyunsaturated fatty... Read the full story
