Thursday, April 28, 2011

An Awesome Nutrition Blog

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Whole Health Source is one of the best health and nutrition blogs I've ever encountered. It's written in a totally accessible way b...
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Sunday, February 27, 2011

How to Afford a Healthy Diet When You're Poor

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One thing I hear repeatedly online in health and nutrition forums is that it's impossible to afford a healthy diet when you're poor....
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Should We Worry About Peak Phosphorus?

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We should worry about peak phosphorus, yes. It is going to become a major issue with very dire consequences. Yet it's all a bit ridicul...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Dem Bones, Dem Bones

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Gavin over at the Simple, Green, Frugal Co-op had a nice post earlier this week about food waste. It got me thinking again about my own hab...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

First Progress Report--Cutting Back on Sugar and Flour

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Yay for me! There's progress to report in my first progress report! I've had no-- zero, zilch, nada --refined flour in the past mo...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Oats

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Last year I experimented with growing oats by planting a single 100 square foot bed of nude oats ( avena nuda ). I expected to get roughly ...
Friday, February 4, 2011

Getting Enough Iodine

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Iodine deficiency is on the rise again in the US. It seems hard to believe that living as we do in such an affluent culture we still have to...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Trying to Tackle Sugar And Refined Flour AGAIN

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If you've followed this blog for awhile you'll know this is something I really struggle with--trying to cut down the amount of sugar...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Are You Working on Your Beta-Carotene "Tan"?

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A study out this month in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior suggests that the golden skin tones attributed to diets rich in caroteno...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Thermos Cooking

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Since I'm planning to go off-grid in the next few years, learning what I can about low-energy cooking seems important. I'm planning ...
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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Is Food Self-Sufficiency A Pipe Dream?

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Lately I've been coming across quite a few people online who rail against the idea that anyone could achieve food self-sufficiency. One ...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Toads: Garden Helpers

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Yesterday I was out enjoying our 88-degree weather, double-digging one of this year's new garden beds. There were a number of surprises ...
Friday, March 26, 2010

Hands in the Dirt

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Ah, Spring is really here. After a long winter of dreaming about gardening, the busy season is finally here. No more time for dreaming, t...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Is Human Health Our God-Given Right?

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I've been a subscriber of Dr. Mercola's alternative health newsletter for several years. While I don't always agree with everyth...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Forget Moldy Spaghetti Sauce, Grow Your Own Tomatoes This Year

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An article last month in the New York Times revealed a case of bribery and corruption that allowed tainted tomato products to be sold for y...
Friday, March 19, 2010

How Many Twinkies Are Too Many?

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Michelle Obama spoke about obesity Wednesday at a forum sponsored by Newsweek.  (The full transcript can be found here .)  If you read the w...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Taking Stock

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I'm taking a little time today to look over where I stand as far as food security goes. If I got snowed in today by the blizzard to end...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Dreaming of Lettuce

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For the past two nights I've been dreaming about lettuce--if that isn't weird, I don't know what is! In the first dream I was in...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Using Soil Temperature to Gauge Planting Times

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Okay, I know it's only January and I'm already obsessing about gardening. But seriously, it's only a few more weeks before I ca...
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Reducing Our Recyclables

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We're told to reduce, reuse and recycle, but it seems to me that when recycling becomes too easy people forget the first two principles ...