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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Have you looked at the great site called Get Local? It’s USP is “Let’s Get Local, Metro Vancouver!” and under the home page, there are lists of the vegetables, fruits, meats, seafood, and herbs that are currently available. They explain what “food miles” are and feature Business Alliance Members, such as Gusto Garlic. Guess what [...] British nutritionist, author, and the founder and director of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London, Patrick Holford, recommends eating five basic food groups to ensure your brain is “well oiled,” has “oomph,” and is in “fine tune,” according to his 2004 book, Optimum Nutrition for the Mind. balanced blood sugar from eating complex carbohydrates and [...] Ingredients Utensils If you live in a city anywhere near a road, or you drive, chances are you’re absorbing some of the heavy metal cadmium, which is very harmful for optimal brain health. Cadmium is present in exhaust fumes. If you use toothpaste from an aluminum tube, use aluminum foil, clothes with an aluminum lining (e.g. Goretex), [...] A friend of mine uses coconut oil inside and out. Today, I did. I started the day with warm water to which I’d added 1 tablespoon of coconut oil. I wondered if I could tolerate that much oil at once, so I spread it over my regular morning litre of water and it was fine. You’re [...] |
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