January 30th, 2012 | Additives, Food Security, Our Food, almonds, California, FDA, feature, GAPS, grain-free, health, nuts, organic, pesticide, raw, SCD
All the good stuff is under attack. Being on the GAPS diet we eat a lot of almonds, in fact I just finished making almond-cashew and honey cookies tonight. If anyone has a good source of almonds please let me know!
By Michael Doyle
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has again upheld U.S. Agriculture Department rules requiring treatment of raw almonds, in the latest blow to organic farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley.
The mandatory pasteurization or chemical treatments protect consumers from salmonella. The requirement to apply them is also well within the Agriculture Department’s power, a federal judge ruled this week.
January 26th, 2012
One of my favorite things about the GAPS / SCD diets are that you are also boycotting refined sugar when on them. I have long hated sugar, it is a drug more insidious and harder to kick than tobacco. I have kicked both the tobacco and the sugar habit so I can say this with experience. I love the ...
October 6th, 2011
The last Wise Traditions Journal from the Weston A Price foundation contained cutting edge information on sulfur which is a nutrient we never hear much about and which has been getting more attention lately. I was telling some people about how sulfur interacts with the skin to create a solar powered ...
February 9th, 2011
I was looking through some old posts and suddenly came across this old draft that for some reason I never published. I don't know why--sorry about that! I recently spent the week on a biodynamic craniosacral therapy course that was held in downtown Vancouver. I don't often spend much time down there ...
November 28th, 2007
NaCl -- Sodium Chloride: a white, crystalline substance with a characteristic taste.
That which purifies, preserves, or corrects
That which gives a tang or piquancy to anything
Sharp, pungent humor or wit
A veteran sailor; 'an old salt'
Taste, relish, smack
To give artificial value t ...
June 19th, 2007
As we have all learned from having been subject to over thirty years or so of social and scientific experimentation with drug and health fads -- there is much more to know about health and nutrition than we really understand. Our scientists keep finding out new things which then seem to contradict w ...
May 14th, 2007
After I contracted typhoid in 2006 at a pagoda in Yangon/Rangoon, Burma/Myanmar I was put on a course of serious antibiotics for ten days which completely wiped out any beneficial flora I had established in my intestines. Not only does it take at least three months to recover from typhoid but i ...
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