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Henna: a nourishing tradition.

 For years, I have been focused on ensuring that what put in my mouth, on my skin and  in my hair is truly nourishing. Over time, I have fine tuned what I define as nourishing. For example, I first thought I was consuming the highest quailty chicken when I purchased a Rosie’s organic chicken at Whole Foods. That has…

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Would you eat horse meat?

 How about drink mare’s milk? I recently returned from the eighth Weston A Price Tour of Switzerland led by chapter leader and Swiss native Judith Mudrak. On July 20, 2014, we visited a Demter farm called Shlulp Wala. According to Wikipedia, Demeter International is the largest certification organization for biodynamic agriculture, and is one of three predominant organic certifiers.…

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How can we get our hair clean with mud?

 Many of us don’t think of mud when we think of washing our hair. We think of shampoo. Most shampoos have a pH level of around 5 or 6, which closely matches our hair’s natural pH. While that is desirable, it is most often achieved using toxic surfactants; chemical foaming agents such as sodium lauryl sulfate. “Non-sulfate…

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How do we treat and even reverse diabetes?

 What is diabetes? Diabetes is a group of diseases marked by high levels of blood glucose resulting from defects in insulin production, insulin action, or both. Diabetes can lead to serious complications and premature death, but people with diabetes can take steps to control the disease and lower the risk of complications. Some would assert…

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Happiness

 Happiness is the state of being happy. hap·py adjective \ˈha-pē\ : feeling pleasure and enjoyment because of your life, situation, etc. : showing or causing feelings of pleasure and enjoyment : pleased or glad about a particular situation, event, etc. As of this writing, the song titled Happy by Pharrell Williams is the number 1…

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How do you keep the beet?

 I love beets. I welcome new ways to prepare them. Roasted beet and walnut salad with kombucha vinaigrette is a recipe from Jenny McGruther’s new cookbook available via our Amazon affiliation The Nourished Kitchen: Farm-to-Table Recipes for the Traditional Foods Lifestyle (Ten Speed Press 2014). It is re-published below by permission. The benefits of beets Beet roots have always been…

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Why Buy Local?

 Sandrine’s Introduction: Buying locally is something that I value and recommend for so many reasons, one of which is that I like supporting and being a part of the community I live in. The word locavore was added to the dictionary in 2005: lo·ca·vore ˈlōkəˌvôr/ noun 1. a person whose diet consists only or principally of locally grown or…

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What’s the problem with corn?

 Sandrine’s Introduction: One problem with corn is that while it is ubiquitous, it is generally indigestible. I love corn on the cob but, know from first hand experience that unless corn is traditionally prepared through a process known as nixtamalization, corn passes right through me unassimilated. For those who are comfortable eating grains, I highly recommend sprouted corn…

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Two for tea?

 Most of what I eat is locally produced, except for items such as coconut oil, sea salt and tea. Until recently, surprisingly, I didn’t quite realize how expensive tea really is. A pound of tea can be more expensive than a pound of 100% grass fed, dry-aged fillet mignon! So, this weekend I purchased a…

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