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A Gluten for Punishment: the Whole Grain Assault on Health

Nathan Daley, MD, MPH Waking Times From Few to You Among thoughtful and informed medical providers and public alike, there is an ongoing transition toward recognizing adverse health effects from grains as being common and normal rather than rare and abnormal.  Not all medical providers, of course, support this change in perspective and some are

3 of the Most Potent Healing Foods

Elizabeth Renter, Natural Society Waking Times “Everything you eat is either fighting disease or fueling it.” We know foods have the potential to be healing. What you eat can either harm your health or make it better. And nowhere is that more true than with medicinal foods like garlic, turmeric, and ginger. All three of

Have We Stripped Our Food Of Its Story?

Sayer Ji & Tania Melkonian, GreenMedInfo Waking Times  Food has lost its story. Stripped of context, meaning, and reduced to its molecular composition, ancient recipes for health and joy long to be recovered. Recipes are ancient prescriptions for health, loved and labored into being by our ancestors.  Responding to necessity and a primordial desire to

The Invisible Nuclear Threat Within Non-Organic Food

Sayer Ji, GreenMedInfo Waking Times Whether you know it or or not, nuclear waste (cobalt-60) has been used for decades to make your food “safer.” There is a profound misunderstanding in the mass market today about the value of certified organic food.  The question is not whether the 50% higher or more you pay at

Ordinary Warriors – The Revolution of the Incredible Edible Town

Chris Bourne, Openhand Contributor Waking Times The Spiritual Warrior blends many qualities There are many different qualities to the soul. The spiritual movement has tended to focus on gifts such as acceptance and unconditional love. But there’s also the other side of the coin. There’s the warrior inside each of us that yearns to change

Sound Science and Common Sense are On the Side of Organics

Vic Shayne, Ph.D. Waking Times Above all else, the United States is the marketing capital of the world. Our society is built around products and services and all the ways they are advertised to us in a way designed to outpace the competition. While it may be unethical to do so, marketing fosters its share

Vegetarians and Vegans

Nutritional Considerations for Vegetarians and Vegans

Many claim that vegetarian and vegan diets, if comprised of a variety of fresh (and, if possible, organic) fruits, vegetables, legumes, grains and nuts, will provide the body with all of the essential nutrients.

Eating Locally and the 100 Mile Headache

Tania Melkonian Waking Times  When Vancouver couple Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon began their experiment – to eat only foods grown and produced within 100 miles of their home – they reported dubiety. This doubt was reflected in the first chapter of their book, The 100 Mile Diet (now among the locavore’s principal reference manuals) when Smith

7 Foods Experts Won’t Eat

The Solution: Pop natural kernels the old-fashioned way: in a skillet. For flavorings, you can add real butter or dried seasonings, such as dillweed, vegetable flakes, or soup mix.


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