How to Make Almond Butter

Homemade almond butter is head and shoulders better than store bought. It’s always great when you can control the ingredients in the foods that you eat. If the nuts that you use are not already roasted, you can dry…

The Dirty Dozen and the Clean Fifteen

This is a Shopper’s Guide to Levels of Pesticide in Produce put out by the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit organization that advocates for policies to protect individual health (Portuguese version follows): Here are the Dirty Dozen: Berries (strawberries,…

Fats That Bring Healing

In the early 1990’s I started to do research on harmful and healthy fats. This was before “0-grams trans-fat” became a trendy label appearing in our food supply, which it is one of those “thanks, but no thanks,” because…

A Paleo Comfort-Food

Are you interested in the paleo diet? This eating style excludes grains, legumes, potatoes (but not sweet potatoes), dairy, and refined sugar. Omitting most processed foods, it leaves you with meat, fish, poultry, eggs, nuts, good fats, fruit, and…

Powerful Immune System Boosters

The immune system is our internal warrior. It fights for us, even when we sleep, literally, or especially when we sleep. It defends us against the micro-organisms that cause disease. Depleting our immune system of the necessary winning ingredients…