Posts belonging to Category 'healthy eating'
August 18, 2010 | Posted by Joan Crain
Last week, Survival of the Fittest, was the topic of my article. So continuing along the same lines, physical self-reliance is one of the most important aspects of survival. How does a healthy lifestyle relate to self-reliance? Well, why would we want to live an unhealthy lifestyle and become regularly dependent on the health care [...]
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Tags: healthy living, physically fit, self reliance | 
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August 17, 2010 | Posted by Ellen Davis
Mainstream medicine likes to shroud the subject of cancer in mysterious terms. They tell us that cancer has many diverse causes such as age, chemical exposure, tobacco and even sunlight. The general, scary message is that “cancer is a complicated disease” and it takes expert advice to avoid it and, heaven forbid, to treat it. But for [...]
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May 26, 2010 | Posted by Joan Crain
The length of the shelf-life of food depends on the type of food, packaging, temperature, and humidity. Most of the food we normally buy is not sterilized and it will spoil due to the growth of micro-organisms. Foods, such as dairy products, meats, poultry, eggs, and fresh fruits and vegetables, will spoil very quickly if [...]
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May 4, 2010 | Posted by Mark Z
After my piece on beach foraging, DDFD suggested I share some recipes. I suddenly realized that I don’t actually have any for seaweed! While nutritious (providing trace minerals, vitamins, and protein) and plentiful foraging, seaweed is an acquired taste. Like many wild foods, it has a very strong flavor. As the only one in the [...]
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January 31, 2010 | Posted by Mark Z
I am a granola cruncher. Okay, yeah, real funny—shut up. The fact is, I was raised on breakfast cereal, but I stopped believing that processed commercial products provided adequate nutrition about the same time I stopped looking for the prize in the box, so —what? At least since my late 30s . . . . [...]
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December 29, 2009 | Posted by Mark Z
Casting about for a New Year’s resolution for 2010? Try this on for size: eat locally—limit your diet to the area that falls within a 100-mile radius of your home! Eating locally is on the rise. Perhaps in reaction to increasing globalization, there is a growing movement to return to an older way of eating, [...]
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December 11, 2009 | Posted by Mark Z
I recently read In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, by Michael Pollan. I highly recommend it! This might be the last “diet” book you ever read, even though it’s not a diet book as such. The message is right on the cover: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” Why go further? Because this [...]
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