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Healthy Lifestyles

Pu-erh Tea

Pu-erh Tea: pronounced “POO-air”
Alice Waters got me thinking about pu-erh tea when she said that it changed her metabolism. She has been drinking it daily for the past two years and she has noticed a significant change. I researched it, ordered several different kinds and have discovered a new wonder drink!
I made pu-erh kombucha [...]

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PLU – meaning behind the numbers

80% of all processed foods in the US are genetically modified.
The FDA does not require genetically modified food to be labeled.
How is one to know while they are shopping how the food is grown? Do you wonder if the tomato you’re eating has been crossbred with frog genes to render the tomato more resistant [...]

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Crop Subsidies = dinner?

Imagine if we had to live only on the foods that our government subsidizes for the crops from the Food and Farm Bill?
The “subsidy garden” reflects the $11 billion per year spent on BIG AG.
The subsidy garden consists of:

corn
wheat
rice
cotton
soybeans
tobacco
sorghum
canola
sunflower

Which would you prefer for your dinner?
Imagine if that $11 billion went to the smaller crops and [...]

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Organic, pastured, or certified humanely-raised?

I have just returned from the Berkshires where I was assisting John Bagnulo in a “bootcamp”  cleanse called Deep Spring Clean.  Last week, in one of the classes, we were reviewing organic practices by the industry.
While many of us believe we are offering our families the best by buying organic, I caution against blindly purchasing [...]

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