Blogs the ‘health’ Category
Friday, October 29th, 2010
I just got done reading my weekly e-newsletter from Vegetarian Times. They were polling people about how they get rid of garlic smell on their fingers after chopping garlic. My response to this: I consider garlic-scented fingers to be part of my signature fragrance. I'm sure my children and grandchildren ...
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
You can buy a gallon of unrefined organic coconut oil from Mountain Rose Herbs for $39!
With all the baking I've been doing, not to mention slathering the baby belly with coconut oil morning and night, I have been going through a lot of coconut oil. A 54-oz tub from Nutiva, ...
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010
BLUuuuuuuuuurgh. cough. cough. hack. bluuuuuuuuurgh.
I came down with the wicked wickedest of colds this week. Like a hum-dinger of a cold. The kind where you hack all night long and wake up more tired than you were when you went to bed. More specifically, I think this would be called ...
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
I was awakened from a dead sleep this morning at 5 a.m. by a monstrous charley horse in my calf. Oh, it was so painful! I awoke with a whimper, which alarmed Hubs, who sat straight up too. Somehow my mind was functioning well enough to actually tell him what ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
I take a variety of supplements to ensure the health of my baby, and my pregnant body. One that I consider indispensible is my daily probiotic supplement. In case you haven't heard about probiotics yet, they are microorganisms that are naturally present in the human gut that promote intestinal and ...
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Thursday, August 12th, 2010
I hesitate to post this. It is not a vegan or vegetarian cookbook. But I really admire the concept of it, and I think some of my "non" cook friends will appreciate it (you know who you are). Stone Soup has put out a free e-cookbook of what the author ...
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
I cooked a lot. I have been experiencing occasional insomnia. So today, I baked Blueberry Apple Spice muffins (gluten-free). At 4:30 a.m. Hubs awoke to a big batch of muffins sitting on the kitchen counter. The recipe came from the Whole Life Nutrition Cookbook. It's the Cranberry Apple Spice muffin ...
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Friday, August 6th, 2010
One of my friends, L, has a sweet 13-month-old baby boy who is very sensitive to several foods, including eggs, milk (dairy), wheat, fish, beef, chicken, pork, corn, and lamb. Basically he has to be on a gluten-free, corn-free, soy-free, vegan diet. Eosinophilic esophagitis is the name of lil fella's ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
Not only does it save families money, but one study shows that if 90% of new moms in the US breastfed exclusively for the recommended 6 months, the US could save around 13 billion dollars a year, and prevent nearly a thousand deaths annually. Check out the story.
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
Part of my renewed interest in replacing my commercial deodorant with an all-natural one is the dangers posed by artificial fragrances. Fragrances contain many ingredients which are untested for safety -- the FDA doesn't test them; it doesn't have to by law. One ingredient in artificial fragrances, pthalates, have been ...
Posted in Misc (not veg blogs), health, personal care | 7 Comments »