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Soaking Seeds

All seed forms of plants (peas, beans, lentils, seeds, and nuts) are perfect storage units, able to stay in that form until mixed with water. Put seeds into a jar and cover with water (1 part seeds to 2 or 3 parts water) to unlock the life force of the seed and activate enzymes and [...]

Roast Beef according to Gracie Allen

Gracie Allen’s Classic Recipe for perfect Roast Beef

1 large Roast of beef
1 small Roast of  beef

Take the two roasts and put them in the oven.
When the little one burns, the big one is done.

Best of Health, Naturally,
Nina

Lemon Skins and Seeds

Every morning, I drink two large glasses of slightly warmed water with the juice of a whole lemon added.

I started thinking about all the lemon skins and seeds that I’m throwing out.  And I started to save them in a bag in the freezer. Yesterday, I boiled up the skins and seeds of the week’s [...]

Buckwheat

Yesterday, I started soaking a third of a jar of buckwheat in acidic water (water with a few drops of apple cider vinegar added) in preparation for cooking it. Buckwheat is usually grouped with the non-gluten grains.

I looked up the benefits of eating buckwheat in Sally Fallon’s book, Nourishing Traditions. Sally is the President and [...]

A Survey about Unrefined, Gluten-Free, Vegan Baked Goods

Registered Holistic Nutritionist Catherine Meiklejohn is currently in the Venture Program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology with the hopes of launching a specialty baked goods business, focusing on unrefined, gluten free and some vegan goods.

As part of her research she has created a survey to see what the market is looking for. It [...]

The Avalon Dairy

My husband is one of those people who is not going to be giving up drinking cow’s milk anytime soon. He’s not going to give up drinking coffee either and he likes milk with his coffee!

So I thought the best thing I could do would be to buy him organic non-homogenized milk by Avalon. That’s [...]

Calcium ~ One of the Seven Macrominerals

The mineral calcium enjoys an inflated position among the seven macrominerals required by the human body, as a result of very successful marketing by the dairy farmers and dairy boards of the world. In fact, before I started my natural nutrition course, I was quite certain that the only way I could get enough calcium [...]

Healthy Digestive Enzymes

Having healthy digestive enzymes is one of the keys to good health.

Digestive enzymes are catalysts that speed up digestive processes by breaking down the food we eat into its building blocks. The body can then rebuild these blocks into the specific amino acids, proteins, fats, glucose, and storage molecules that it needs. The enzymes for [...]

Pasteurized Milk Not Good Enough for Calves

Recently, I read in Annemarie Colbin’s text Food and Healing, that “calves given their own mother’s milk that had first been pasteurized didn’t live more than six weeks” (page 154).

Also, she writes that “An increased incidence of problems, including a reduced ability to reproduce, was noted in laboratory animals fed pasteurized milk for several generations [...]

Shocking Comments from Bateson-Koch, DC ND

In her 1994 publication, Allergies: Disease in Disguise, Dr. Carolee Bateson-Koch makes this assertion:

“if you eat an average North American diet, you are virtually guaranteed to develop a chronic degenerative disease at some point in your lifetime. Of the top 10 major diseases which afflict an estimated 100 million Americans, 8 have been established as [...]