Watercress: Green Smoothie and Raw Soup Recipes
Watercress is a sharp and peppery tasting cruciferous vegetable. Like most greens, watercress can easily make it to the top of super-foods list, and it's a perfect addition to your green smoothies. Its amazing health benefits are due to its high levels of...
Dandelion Greens Recipes: How About Some Weeds In Your Green Smoothie?
Have you had your dandelions today?
For many people when they think of dandelions, their first thought is the weeds on their lawn. They view the common dandelion as a weed, and wage a small war to eradicate the plant from their lawns and gardens, but I want to encourage you to eat them!
Not everyone knows that dandelions are very healthy, and can be used in many recipes, including (of course) green smoothies. Dandelion greens have slightly bitter taste which might be difficult to mask with fruit in a green smoothie, so start with adding small amounts and/or mixing them with other greens, such as spinach or kale.
The Dark Side of Grains and the Benefits of Gluten-Free Eating
Grain based products are everywhere today: pastas, doughnuts, breads, cookies, crackers, cereals, cakes, pastries -there is no escaping or hiding from them. Most of us grew up learning that grains were one of the four major food groups essential to a balanced diet, at...
Mango Salsa Recipe & Mango Gazpacho
I love mangoes and I buy whole boxes of them when they are in season. I usually just have them on their own - they are just so delicious! But, why not experiment a little on a hot day and make a bowl of delicious mango salsa, mango smoothie, or soup. Mangoes are...
The GMO Battle is Heating Up
I just recently attended the Food Revolution Summit. It was a great event, with great speakers and informative presentations, including Jeffrey Smith who is the leading spokesperson on the dangers of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Right now the GMO battle is...
Toxic Chemicals and Disease: Are Our Children Canaries in a Coal Mine?
Did you know that of 60,000 existing chemicals only about 200 were ever tested for safety directly by the EPA? The Toxic Substances Control Act (ToSCA) of 1976 mandated the EPA to protect the public from “unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment” by regulating the manufacture and sale of chemicals. One might think that Environmental Protection Agency exists to protect the public from dangerous and potentially carcinogenic substances, but thousands of chemicals were never tested by the EPA because they were not considered an “unreasonable risk.”
