Monday June 9, 1941
The following excerpt is from an article that appeared in Time magazine Highlighting is mine and is not included in the online article.
The Nation’s Food
Nine hundred doctors, dietitians, chemists, industrialists met in Washington last week to tackle an immense problem: the U.S. diet. As a whole the U.S. today is probably better [...]
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In my search for Mediterranean vegetable recipes, I have come across a few that sound promising. You will need to know the following two vegetables.
Courgette = Zucchini
Aubergine = Egg Plant
Sounds a lot more appetizing doesn’t it? No, honey, we are not having Zucchini tonight, it’s Courgette.
The first one is a Mediterranean Vegetable Salad [...]
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Most of us have taken supplements at one time in our life or another. I have taken them for most of my life. Sometimes they helped, sometimes they hurt and sometimes they did nothing. I used to think that it was just that “I wasn’t taking enough” or that I needed something [...]
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Do you know how hard it can be to get kids to eat vegetables? My focus this week is on finding new and exciting recipes to entice my family to eat more vegetables. Leave me a link to your favorite recipe in comments or just put the entire recipe in or heck just [...]
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I have to take a minute to brag about my first eggs. I have had the chickens for about 6 months. I raised them from day old chicks. The neighbor’s dogs got a few so I have 7 chickens and 1 guinea that survived.
This week I have found my first eggs. [...]
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In a recent post, I talked about the health benefits of eating a Mediterranean diet. Since then I have been thinking of different easy ways to start including some of the basic concepts in my meal planning. It basically means a shift in the way we think about our diets. If you [...]
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I picked this recipe because I have never eaten turnips. I see them all the time at the grocery store but have never tried them. If I am going to start eating 8-9 servings of vegetables a day, I need to incorporate some variety so I will be testing out some new ones. [...]
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Reuters reports that a study of people eating the Mediterranean Diet may live longer. So what’s so great about the Mediterranean Diet? The best thing may be that it is not a diet at all. It’s a way of life for most people in the Mediterranean countries. For economic reasons, the majority [...]
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According to a recent AP report, 25% of the 52 nutritional supplements tested by Informed Choice were contaminated by steroids and 11% contained stimulants.
”The presence of steroids and stimulants in supplement products is still very much an issue,” the conclusion of the report read. “It is clear that not all supplement manufacturers follow good [...]
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Shopping Mondays will provide a look at some healthy alternatives. It’s a chance to relax and shop online after a hectic weekend.
Grass fed beef: You might ask, don’t all cows eat grass? Yes, at some point in their life all cows eat grass, however, most beef cows are sent to feedlots for [...]
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