Are you eating salmon loaded with pesticides, antibiotics, synthetic pigments, and toxic compounds like copper sulfate, thinking that it's "heart & brain healthy"?
If so, here's some information that will make you want to avoid farm caught salmon like the plague: if farmed salmon were not fed synthetic pigments to dye the flesh, your salmon would be an unappetizing gray, not pink! This is due to their altered diets, which are not congruent with nature. This awesome article from Dr. Mercola exposes the dark side of farm raised salmon.Check out the article to find out the truth, and buy wild caught salmon instead of farm raised!
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
~ Thomas Jefferson
I saw this article from Dr. Mercola, and I HAD to pass it on to you! Do you want the government telling you what you can and cannot eat, even controlling whether or not you can have your own garden? ME EITHER!
Take the time to read the bottom half of this article, and take the action Dr. Mercola recommends! Let's keep this country free- including the freedom of choice to choose our own food!
With Thanksgiving quickly approaching, all I can think of is warm things and spicy breads. Growing up, my Mom used to make delicious pumpkin breads every year. So when I saw this recipe from Garden of Life, through their Extraordinary Health Newsletter, I had to pass it on to you!See the original article here.Here's the recipe!
Seasonal Pumpkin Bread Serves 10-12
Ingredients: 3 cups of freshly ground spelt flour 1 ½ cups of mashed pumpkin 1 cup of water 3 Tablespoons of kefir, probiotic-rich yogurt, or raw apple cider vinegar ¾ cup of extra virgin coconut oil 3 omega-3 eggs 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground cloves ¾ teaspoon of sea salt 1 teaspoon of baking soda ½ teaspoon of baking powder 1 cup of raisins 1 cup crispy nuts (chopped)
Directions: Mix together the flour, mashed pumpkin, water and kefir (or yogurt or apple cider vinegar) in a large bowl. Cover the bowl and let the mixture sit at room temperature for at least 8 hours.
When you’re ready to bake the pumpkin bread, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease two loaf pans with coconut oil. Uncover the pumpkin mixture and add the remaining ingredients—except for the raisins and nuts—and mix well. When mixed, then add the raisins and nuts. Pour the batter into the two loaf pans and then bake them for 45 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for about 30 minutes. Serve warm.
I saw this article last night on Whole Foods website and had to share. It is a fantastic guide to cooking organic & natural turkeys! Like any other organic/grass fed meat, free range turkeys cook differently than their conventional counterparts. Their meat is naturally leaner, and no additives are included. Thus, you don't want to cook your delicious, but expensive, free range bird as you normally would, just to find that it comes out dry!This article will give you all the tips you need for a fantastic, and toxin free, Thanksgiving turkey!
Ah, the sweet potato. No other vegetable can top its sweetness on the Thanksgiving table, or any other time of the year, for that matter. (In my humble opinion, at least!) And besides their lovely texture, sweet potatoes are also high in beta carotene, Vitamin C, and Vitamin B6, in addition to being rich in dietary fiber and complex carbohydrates. Not bad for such a vegetable!
In traditional cultures, sweet potatoes were fermented in holes in the ground. These days, the only time anyone in the U.S. sees them is when they are covered with marshmallows on Thanksgiving day. Unfortunately, marshmallows are extremely unhealthy, and I have to warn you- even the "organic" ones are too! Corn syrup is bad for you no matter what, even if it's "organic"! I've never seen any made without it.
The good news is, it's possible to make some delightful sweet potatoes for your Thanksgiving table, even without the marshmallows. And trust me, I know how hard it can be to give those up. My Mom made sweet potato casserole every year that I can remember growing up, and I used to eat only the toasty marshmallows, eschewing most of the sweet potatoes. So I know how good it is!
But sweet potatoes are so sweet- you don't need marshmallows! I've found that the key to yummy sweet potatoes is plenty, and I do mean plenty, of rich butter.
Here's a basic recipe I use for sweet potatoes. (Although I don't ever add sweetener, and we don't miss it, but I'll include it below for Thanksgiving) I love sweet potatoes so much that we have them once a week! (On Sundays, with our weekly roast!)
So Sweet Sweet Potatoes (Serves 4-6)
(I don't follow this precisely by any means, so feel free to add more butter, or more salt or cinnamon if you think it needs it!)
10 medium sized organic yams 1-2 tspns. sea salt, to taste 1-2 tspns. organic cinnamon, to taste 1-2 sticks organic butter, like Organic Valley's cultured, unsalted butter, or use homemade raw butter! 1 cup organic raisins 1/4-1/2 cup Rapadura, or raw honey
Wash sweet potatoes and prick holes all over them. Bake in a 350 degree oven (put some foil on the bottom of your oven for easy cleanup) for about 2-3 hours, or until very, very tender when pierced with a fork or knife.
Take the sweet potatoes out of the oven when very tender, and cut them down the middle. Scoop out the flesh into a large bowl. Add in the butter, and stir until thoroughly melted and evenly distributed. Then add the sweetener, sea salt, cinnamon and raisins. Stir thoroughly.
Serve right away, or reheat in a dish in the oven, or in a crockpot on Thanksgiving day.
Did you know that in the United States today, 5.3 million people have Alzheimer's, that it is the 6th leading cause of death, and that in 20 years it is projected one in four Americans will have it?
I didn't either! I know I just shared a Dr. Mercola article yesterday, but I had to pass this on- in this awesome article Dr. Mercola details a vitamin that can slash your chances for developing Alzheimer's, as well as some lifestyle/dietary changes that will help as well.
Alzheimer's is a tragic and unnecessary disease. Check out this article and then pass on this valuable information to your loved ones!
Do you want your boys and girls to be healthy and develop properly, and one day be able to give you cute little grandkids? :)
The choices you make now will affect them for their lifetimes, as new research has proved that chemicals which alter the endocrine, or hormonal system, can affect reproduction.
