Have you ever wondered why we love using scallions, onions, leeks, chives and garlic in our cooking? This family has a pungent flavor and is rich in sulfur. This affects our lung health...
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Local Whole Wheat Bread
For the last several years, we have been working to localize our food. One aspect is that we began milling our own wheat last fall, after discovering Sloping Hill Farm in Qualicum Beach...
Momentum To Learn About Food
Food information is everywhere now. It beckons to us from magazines (thanks Synergy) and television shows and commercials. Documentary movies teach about farming practices and corrupt...
You Had Me at “Hello”
When I lived in Victoria, I used to run the trail around Elk and Beaver Lakes in the mornings before work. As a practice, I would always say “hello” to my fellow outdoor enthusiasts...
Dr. Weston Price-An Early Nutrition Pioneer
Dr. Weston Price and his wife, Florence, traveled around the world in the mid 1930’s searching out people living a primitive lifestyle. Dr. Price located groups which were still eating...
The Self-Compassion Diet
The Self-Compassion Diet: A Step-by-Step Program to Lose Weight with Loving-Kindness by Jean Fain (Sounds True 2011) ISBN 978-1-60407-075-0 and The Self-Compassion Diet: Guided Practices...
If You’re Not Moving, You’re Dying
I tend to write about whole foods, sourced locally, as an essential element of health. But nutrition alone is not sufficient for vitality. A healthy body requires regular physical exercise....
The Healing Cook’s Queen of Grains
Millet, known as the Queen of Grains, is popular in many parts of the world with 10,000 years of cultivation history. It is a highly nutritious, non-glutinous and versatile grain. Considered...
Butterbur: Little Known Versatile Herb
An almost forgotten herb, butterbur (Petasites hybridus) was for many centuries associated with treating plagues, fevers, coughs, and gastrointestinal disorders. Over the past few years,...
Developing a Fitness Plan That Sticks
As the days become longer, brighter and warmer, many of us are becoming more active and beginning to make new fitness goals, perhaps to get in shape for the coming summer months. When...
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