Category: Nutrition
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Homemade Almond Butter: Training Food Extraordinaire – All in Pictures
I’ve always been a big fan of almond butter: great flavor and texture, terrific energy sustainer. Years ago, when my favorite vendor of that almond butter – and many other favorite food products, Trader Joe’s, experienced a recall and then was only able to dole out cases of new almond butter the way Apple doles…
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Kale Teriyaki Picture Book Recipe
Dig kale? I didn’t until only a few years ago, but now I’m a big fan, especially when it’s made the way you see here! Nutritionally, kale rates highest along with collard, turnip, and mustard greens, Swiss chard, and upland watercress with a score of 1000 on the
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Microwave Cooking Broccoli: Best for Flavor & Health Benefits – In Pictures & Short Video
Aside from its fantastic flavor – quick & easy preparation makes all the difference – broccoli has uniquely potent anti-inflammatory, heart health-promoting, cancer-fighting, body detoxification, and antioxidant properties. To get the most of both flavor and health benefits, it’s best to cook broccoli either by steaming it briefly or cooking it quickly in the microwave…
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Fresh Fruit vs. Dried Fruit Nutritional Value
An extraordinarily friendly woman I check out with almost everytime I take a run through BJ’s Wholesale Club in Northborough, MA, noticed a bag of mixed dried fruit along with containers of fresh fruit in my shopping cart and asked, “What’s better for you, dried or fresh fruit? I’ve tried looking it up online, but…
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How to Recognize and Change Our Strong Emotional Connection to Food
Followed a link from Stonehearth Newsletters to the recent and very informative Orlando Health article (I recommend you see by clicking any picture on this page) about our powerfully strong emotional connection to food and how that affects both why we eat and our body weight. Bottom line: our emotional connection to food is established early…