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Now that I’m studying for a Natural Nutrition diploma at CSNN, I’m trying out new foods all the time. A week or two back, I finally understood why I want spirulina in my shopping basket and in my diet. Spirulina is a blue-green vegetable plankton that has been eaten as a source of protein by the [...] photograph courtesy – Zumbari at www.sxc.hu You know that rather gritty feeling you get on your teeth when you eat a spinach salad? That’s the oxalic acid in the leaves and stems. Oxalic acid is an organic acid found in a range of plant foods that can cause a nutrient deficit in the body and [...] I had a dream. I call it my “calcium dream.” I was standing on a ski hill in sunshine wearing skis, something I haven’t done for many years. This was a lucid dream in which I comforted myself that it was only a dream and so I couldn’t hurt myself! Someone skied past me and I [...] Yesterday evening, I attended a webinar entitled Boosting Your Brain Power. It was hosted by NOW Foods’ Sue Vileikis and presented by Marcia Zimmerman, “one of the natural product industry’s foremost authorities on nutrition, wellness and human health.” Just like Dr. Daniel Amen, Marcia Zimmerman’s 45-minute presentation included a recommendation of the brain nutrients you can [...] Calcium is one of the most important minerals that we need to get into our bodies through our diets, and, luckily, it’s available in a lot of our regular shopping baskets. Take this group of foods, for instance. Starting in the upper left-hand corner and going clockwise, there is milk (calcium is better absorbed from milk [...] Ingredients 1/2 cup of red Thai rice Method For the last little while, my toes have been cramping through the night. I’ve woken up in the mornings and realised that they are sore. I didn’t do anything about these cramps and basically ignored them! Not sensible I now realise. Then I realised that I wasn’t taking calcium and magnesium with my daily supplements. When [...] I love it that I can find unusual grains in the specialty food stores in Vancouver. Take teff flour for instance. The smallest grain in the world, teff is a staple food of highland Ethiopians. Like most grains, it’s a light brown, sandy colour and it has a much higher percentage of bran and germ [...] A dear friend recounted the ordeal of helping her adult son between Christmas and New Year through the agony of passing a kidney stone. So, I said I would look up the cause of kidney stones, or, at least, what Phyllis A. Balch, CNC (certified nutritional consultant), says is the way to avoid kidney stones [...] In a garden of a house in Collingwood on the eastern edge of Vancouver, there are about twenty fig trees, growing figs, mostly in pairs, ripe and succulent. Some of the trees are growing so close together, you can’t tell where one tree ends and the next tree starts. Yesterday, they were bearing fruit prolifically. |
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