Plant-Based Eating Power Tips

Umeboshi Plum Healing Benefits and Best Home Remedy

Umeboshi is said to be highly effective in relieving jet lag, stiffness, hangover, stress, headaches, insomnia, fatigue and just about anything else you can name.   When we eat packaged, highly processesed and factory prepared foods now and then our bodies can bounce back if

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Why Miso Soup Is a Game-Changer for Your Health

Miso’s Nutritional Profile: Miso is rich in vitamins, minerals, vegetable proteins, microorganisms, salts, carbohydrates, and fat. These components contribute to its ant oxidative properties, improved digestion, and a stronger immune system. Miso Amazon Affiliate Link  https://youtu.be/-3MjLLo5v4o?si=UCynKx3Y-aOFNgqk Therapeutic Potential of Miso: There is scientific evidence supporting

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Healing Cuisine, Vegan and Macrobiotic Recipes

Healing Cuisine founder, Meredith McCarty, has three cookbooks with an abundance of vegan and macrobiotic recipes for meals that heal. My long time friend, Meredith, has three fabulous cookbooks: Click on the book image to learn more & purchase on Amazon. Sweet and Natural, More

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Orange Sesame Cookies – Gluten Free

Orange Sesame Cookies Makes 30 to 35 cookies Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. 1 ½ cups oat flour 1 ½ cups rolled oats, partially ground in the food processor ½ teaspoon sea salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/3 cup sesame seeds, toasted ½ cup

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Vegan Crunchy chocolate Chip cookies

Easy Chocolate Chip Vegan Cookies

  Introducing my all-time favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe! It is a easy canvas for cookie creativity.   Swap in some half oat or rice flour to impart a delightful twist. If you’re on a gluten-free journey, consider waving goodbye to pastry flour and welcoming

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Crunchy Asian Salad

Crunchy Asian Salad Family and friends will love this salad. 1      head Napa (Chinese) cabbage, cut finely 2      ears corn, de-cobbed 1      carrot, grated 1/2    bunch cilantro, cut finely 1      small cucumber, peeled and cubed into 1/2-inch bites 1      tomato, diced, or 1/2 red pepper,

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Miso Soup 101 ~ Profound Health Benefits

If you had an super busy week, did not sleep well or felt a lot of stress, then miso soup is a very good remedy to make and eat.  That is what I did! Miso 101: It is delicious and very nutritious. Ancient wisdom and

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Baked Root Vegetable Stew

Ingredients  1 medium size rutabaga or golden beet, cut in ¾ inch pieces 1 large carrot, rolled cut in ¾ inch pieces 1 medium size daikon, rolled cut in ¾ pieces 1 large Yukon Gold potato, cut in ¾ inch pieces 1 tablespoon rosemary 1

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Food Combining – Did You Know?

Fruit and fruit juice digests very quickly and are best eaten 2 hours after a meal or 30 minutes before. The morning is an excellent time to eat your fruit. Enjoy eating a single whole fresh fruit or make a seasonal fresh salad. Choose a

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Use Diet to Cure Dis-ease

For many doctors, food remains a medical mystery. That’s a major problem given the fact that poor diet quality has surpassed smoking to become the leading risk factor for death and disability in the US. In fact, according to Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 70%

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The Secret Sauce Chart

Sauces and dressings add delicious splendor to a otherwise bland meal. Tasty sauces can be made with anywhere from two ingredients or 20 ingredients. When I was the head chef Harbin Hot Springs Restaurant. I would plan the menu ahead time, then my sous chefs and

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Vegan Corn Tofu Souffle

Quick and Easy Vegan Recipe. No eggs needed! Always use fresh organic produce.  Corn contains abundant minerals which positively benefit the bodies in a number of ways. phosphorous, along with magnesium, manganese, zinc, iron and copper are found in all varieties of corn. It also

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Got Gazpacho?

Nutritious and Delicious Summertime Soup The Vitamin A, E and C help prevent colds. The antioxidant proprieties reduce the aging process. Use organic Farmers Market produce for the best flavor and maximum health benefits. Easy Gazpacho Recipe 2 large tomatos, quartered 1/2 cucumber, peeled and

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Health Benefits of Nettles

It’s no wonder that throughout temperate regions of the world nettles are valued for building vitality.   I like to find this plant on the numerous mountain hikes within a hours drive of Palo Alto.  A local herbalist, Darren Huckle taught me not to be

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7 Benefits of Drinking Green Tea

Morning Rituals Drinking a cup or two of green tea is one for me. I enjoy the taste of organic loose leaf “Everyday Green Tea”.  I ordered it bulk from the Imperial Tea Company and purchase it from there shop at Ferry Plaza Market in

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Healthy Gut Bacteria

Good news – you can cultivate a new microbiota, formerly known as gut flora, in just 24 hours—by changing what you eat. “Did you know we are only 10% human? 90% of our cells are nonhuman, microbial cells. Since our diet influences our microbes, it’s

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Physicians Learn Benefits of Plant-based Diets

Kaiser Permanente, the largest managed healthcare organization in the United States, has published a remarkable nutritional update for physicians, telling them that healthy eating may best be achieved with a plant-based diet, defined as a regimen that “encourages whole, plant-based foods and discourages meats, dairy

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Sugar Blues

The following is from a book that made… dramatic improvements in my physical and emotional health: While preparing his recurring volume, A History of Nutrition, published in 1957, Professor E. V. McCollum (Johns Hopkins University), sometimes called America’s foremost nutritionist, reviewed approximately 200,000 published scientific

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What’s in your water?

How to save on your water bill! Since 1970, Multipure has manufactured drinking water systems that help provide solutions to environmental problems such as plastic water bottles, harmful contaminants and the carelesswaste of precious resources. We’re proud of the “green” products we manufacture using materials

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Ume Sho Kuzu Tea ~ BEST Home Remedy

Natural Tea ~Home Remedy tea for when you feel fatigued, have a belly ache or just want better balance. 1 ¾ cup filtered water 1 Kukicha Twig Tea bag ½ Umeboshi plum or ½ teaspoon umeboshi plum paste 1 tablespoon Kuzu 2 drops good quality

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Monday Vegan Thanksgiving Dinner in Palo Alto

Nov 23 Thanksgiving 2015 $23   Gingery Butternut Squash Soup Basket of Whole Grain Breads and Crackers Corn and Caramelized Onion Frittata Wild Rice and Quinoa Pilaf with Creamy Mushroom Gravy Mashed, Roasted Sweet Potatoes Cranberry Sauce Green Beans with Toasted Almonds Mixed Greens, Radicchio and

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Vegan Macrobiotic Thanksgiving Dinner November 23 in Palo Alto

Thanksgiving  Menu 2015 Gingery Butternut Squash Soup Basket of Whole Grain Breads and Crackers Corn and Caramelized Onion Frittata Wild Rice and Quinoa Pilaf with Creamy Mushroom Gravy Mashed, Roasted Sweet Potatoes Cranberry Sauce Green Beans with Toasted Almonds Mixed Greens, Radicchio and Romaine Salad

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Marine Cured Health Problems by Going Organic

Former US Marine Demands GMO Ban After Curing Health Problems By Going Organic June 4th, 2015 As the great GMO debate rages on, more and more stories are beginning to surface from individuals who have experienced personal success by eliminating genetically modified foods from their diet. One

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100 Restaurant Salads That Are Worse Than a Big Mac

Ordering a salad at a chain restaurant often seems like the healthiest choice to dieters or nutrition-conscious custom ers. However, many restaurant salads are actually loaded with high-fat and high-cholesterol ingredients—like processed meat, cheese, and creamy dressing. Physicians Committee dietitians compared the nutrition data of

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Switch to Organic Food – 90 second video

Want to know what happens in your body when you switch from eating conventional food to organic? Watch this powerful 90 second video. A family that doesn’t buy organic because of the cost eats only organic for two weeks.  In this 90 second video, the impact

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