Why Fuyu Persimmons Should Be Your Go-To Autumn Fruit

Fuyu persimmons are such a pretty color and shape

This Delightful Fruit Will Make You Glad That It’s Fall

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love Fuyu persimmons, and those who have never tried this amazing treat. I was category two for most of my life. But when I adopted a whole foods, plant-based diet, I became more adventurous and had to try this new food that seemed so exotic. The first bite left me wondering at the attraction of this novel fruit, but I quickly advanced to category one, so happy to have discovered an autumn treasure to cushion the end of summer.

Persimmons are an orange fruit that stars in the fall, when you are primed to love orange as the color of the season. The taste of Fuyus is quite mild and somewhat sweet, yet also strangely addictive. Or maybe it is the satisfying crunch, Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted is Posted in Plant-based nutrition at October 25th, 2012 | Permalink | 1 Comment »

Vegan For the Holidays Is Your Must-Have Cookbook for Festive Winter Celebrations

Vegan for the Holidays will definitely upgrade your holiday table and give your guests a memorable meal

Zel Allen Offers Whole Foods, Plant-Based Recipes To Delight Your Guests

Expectations are high for holiday meals. From Thanksgiving through Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Years – and all the parties and house guests in between – vegans may wonder how to satisfy friends, family, and co-workers while staying animal-free at the table. Health conscious eaters may be resigned to fatty, salty foods that lead to weight gain, heartburn, and a rush of guilt on New Year’s Day.

Enter Zel Allen with her original, satisfying, healthy recipes in Vegan For the Holidays. Zel, a cofounder of the popular site Vegetarians in Paradise, includes whole food, plant-based holiday recipes that will Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted is Posted in Recipes at October 4th, 2012 | Permalink | Comments Off on Vegan For the Holidays Is Your Must-Have Cookbook for Festive Winter Celebrations

The Paleo Diet Dangers and Distortions

Early cave men did not look like this, and they did not eat the Paleo diet either. But good myths are hard to get rid of.

Still Another “High-Protein” Diet Threatens Your Health

The Paleo Diet can hook you with its story. This “cave man” diet promises to reunite you with your ancestors from 2.5 million years ago through the simple act of eating meat. In this complex era of busy lives and disconnected community, this is an appealing picture. Agriculture, which began 10,000 years ago, is the story’s villain, supposedly leading people away from the hunt to an unnatural diet.

Loren Cordain, PhD and professor at Colorado State, launched the Paleo Diet with his book of the same name. This restrictive eating plan forbids all grains, potatoes and legumes (peas, lentils, beans) as well as dairy and processed foods (including processed meats). You eat all you want of meat, fish, vegetables, and fruit. Bone marrow, animal organs, and meat from wild animals are all on the menu.

The book represents that you can cure just about any chronic illness, from heart disease to cancer, by eating this way because it would match the way your distant ancestors ate for over two million years. You are also supposed to Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted is Posted in Plant-based nutrition at September 15th, 2012 | Permalink | 3 Comments »

A Stunning Film That Bumps Your Heart

Tribe of Heart film makers James LaVeck and Jenny Stein

Tribe of Heart Film Makers James LaVeck and Jenny Stein Show a Peaceable Kingdom That Includes Us All

In a profound scene from the film Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home, fifth-generation beef farmer Harold Brown describes his transformation when the cow Snickers ran up to him and thumped his head against Harold’s chest. In that moment, Harold felt Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted is Posted in Animals at September 3rd, 2012 | Permalink | Comments Off on A Stunning Film That Bumps Your Heart

The Truth About Whole Grains

Whole grains are lovely as they grow. You can clearly see in this picture that the grains of wheat are seeds that form in a cluster on a grassy plant.

A Seed by Any Other Name is Still a Seed

Real world studies of what people eat show, over and over again, that if you consume whole grains you will be healthier and thinner. Yet outlandish statements in the popular media, and even “nutrition” books, may keep you from enjoying and benefitting from these most basic of all foods. When you know the facts, you won’t deprive yourself.

Whole grains are seeds. You might hear silly statements such as “Whole grains are not healthy, but quinoa is because it’s a seed.” If you hear anything like this, you know whoever is telling you knows zero about plants or nutrition, and you can boost your health by tuning out.

Another mundane myth is that people did not start to eat whole grains until these plants were domesticated about 10,000 years ago. Why would people have gone to all the trouble of deliberately cultivating a plant that they never ate before? Were our ancestors that misguided? The truth is that people ate wild grain seeds long before they started to plant them. In some parts of the world, wild grains still Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted is Posted in Plant-based nutrition at August 23rd, 2012 | Permalink | Comments Off on The Truth About Whole Grains

Healing Foods and Satisfying Taste Marry At Casa de Luz

Wayo and Lainey proudly display one of their gorgeous, delicious plates at Casa de Luz in San Diego

Wayo Longoria Creates a Dining Room Where You Are a Family Member

When you are on a whole foods, plant-based diet, finding a restaurant for an enjoyable meal can be a challenge. Eduardo (Wayo) Longoria solves this problem for you with San Diego’s Casa de Luz, an inviting dining room that serves certified organic, plant-based, Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted is Posted in Plant-based nutrition at July 28th, 2012 | Permalink | Comments Off on Healing Foods and Satisfying Taste Marry At Casa de Luz

How To Make Fruit Salad Everyone Will Love

An inventive presentation can make your delicious fruit even more tempting

Easy Elegance for Picnics and Get-Togethers

If you are figuring out a fast, easy dish for any gathering, from a summer picnic to an elegant dinner party, fruit salad is your solution. Colorful fruit salad is gorgeous and tempting, bringing an orchard to your kitchen.

You don’t even need a recipe for fruit salad. You can make it on a moment’s notice, assuming you keep lots of fruit in your house. Hopefully you do this anyway, since fruit is a pillar of a healthy, whole foods, plant-based diet.

Fruit salad is the ultimate in uncooking. You can even let young children help assemble it. In fact, letting kids have fun in making meals with healthy foods is one of the best ways to get them launched on lifelong wise eating choices.

Here are some hints to making your fruit salad memorable and irresistible.

Enjoy your fruit salad outdoors on a picnic blanket in a green space, at the beach, or in a sunny nook in your house. Appreciate all that nature put into the fruit – the soil, sun, pollinators. Smile at nature’s greatest bounty.

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Posted is Posted in Recipes at July 7th, 2012 | Permalink | Comments Off on How To Make Fruit Salad Everyone Will Love

Lavender: A Colorful Flavor

The bees were so interested in the lavender that they did not both the human visitors. These bees were too busy with their tasks of pollination and making their own food to fly up to us.

Enrich Your Cooking With the Distinct Taste and Fragrance of Lavender

I’d never seen so many hard-working bees. As I relaxed into the rural vista, surrounded by fields of lavender in stunning purples, the hum of the bees soothed me into bliss. The fragrance of the flowers was the final calming element. Stress melted and vaporized.

I was at Keys Creek Lavender Farm in eastern San Diego County during the last weekend in May. The peak blooming season this far south Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted is Posted in Plant-based nutrition at June 16th, 2012 | Permalink | Comments Off on Lavender: A Colorful Flavor

Fostering Joy

The kittens were so cute that just watching them brought profound joy.

The Sound Of Seven Cats Purring

The first big job was naming the kittens. What a splendid opportunity, we felt, to shape the psyches of these visiting infants. The six kittens spanned the cat color range: one orange, one black, a light gray with white markings, a dark gray, and two gray and black striped tabbies.

All of these three-week old babies were males, except for one of the tabbies. The kittens came Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted is Posted in Animals at June 2nd, 2012 | Permalink | 2 Comments »

Six Hidden Dangers of Sunscreen You Must Know for Summer

The beach gets crowded on a sunny day. The most popular activity is simply taking the sun. On an overcast day, people go home quickly.

Can a Whole Foods, Plant-Based Diet Do What Sunscreen Can’t?

Life on earth evolved with the sun. Plants, the base of the food chain, harness solar power through photosynthesis in leaves. Animals live off the energy and nutrients in plants. Over billions of years, plants and animals have perfected their relationship with the sun. Living things have evolved safeguards to benefit from the sun without succumbing to its power.

Yet today, sunscreen manufacturers would have you believe that the sun is your enemy, a cancer promoter. Instead, you are supposed to trust the chemicals in sunscreen to safeguard your health. The fact that sunlight is free and sunscreen drained Read the rest of this entry »

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Posted is Posted in Health at May 28th, 2012 | Permalink | 1 Comment »

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