Natural Products Expo East – Baltimore Style
These 3 day events never fail as a huge, tangible reminder of the real “natural food business,” complete with the newest cool projects underway, as well as all the amazing people behind the scenes (and sometimes leading the scene!) that are making the healthy and green choices in our grocery stores, well, happen.
Beauty Secrets of Superfoods
The beauty boost you’ve been looking for comes straight from the kitchen! Add these 5 extraordinary foods to your diet for the healthiest (and most delicious!) beauty upgrade ever…
Spring into Green!
Greens are becoming more and more popular lately, not only because they’re super nutritious, but because they’re super delicious too. Here are a few of my key ways to keep my favorite food group in constant rotation – and ensure that this spring is energizing, clean, healthy and green!
The “Dirty Dozen:” when eating organic matters most
Is it necessary to eat organic all the time? Well, ideally, yeah. (And in a perfect world the idea mixing chemicals and food would be absolutely egregious in the first place). However, if a tight wallet, lack of availability, or just unfamiliarity with the organic movement is an issue, chuck the idealism at the door and instead start out by taking on baby step #1: saying NO to the Dirty Dozen list – the worst of the worst non-organic offenders.
Foodie secrets to an allergy-free season
I like to adjust my diet during this time of year to help give my body some extra support as it goes to battle with the pollen. To do this, I strengthen the bodily systems most affected by allergies by using nutrient-rich foods. Here are some particularly good foods to emphasize…
Edible Environmentalism
How can we most efficiently make a difference in cleaning up the environment? There’s one solution that truly puts us on the fast track to a more sustainable lifestyle: stop eating meat.
Organic Cleansing
Around this time, a lot of us may be considering a dietary cleanse of sorts — you know, to kinda to kick our new, better, and noticeably more awesome selves into high gear. Rather than taking a regimented approach, I prefer utilizing a style of cleansing I call “organic cleansing.”
Chef’s Notes: Goji Berries
Recently, I shot a few informational videos for Navitas Naturals to talk about the benefits of a few of their superfood products. The videos turned out pretty fun, and are a great 101 on how to use these “new” foods. Here’s one on goji berries.
Extreme vitamin C in cacao? The honest truth.
Despite popularized news, superfood company and cacao manufacturer Navitas Naturals have just released what they consider “the honest truth” — exposing that even when processed at low temperatures (i.e. “raw”), there is actually no vitamin C (ascorbic acid) present in cacao.
Sweeten up your diet with dates
Candy junkies looking for a healthier stash have reason to rejoice – and it’s not because of another brightly colored package hitting the shelves. Instead, the source of this sweet party is none other than the oldest known fruit: the date.