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Seven Ideas for Preparing Food at Home Cheaply with Minimal Space and Resources
Thrive dining is a lifelong process. It's not even steps in the same direction. It's more of bunch of events, some pleasant and rewarding, others a "learning experience." The results over time is that you eat better and better and enjoy the benefits.
Peanut Butter Hack
If you are a fan of real peanut butter, that is peanuts ground up and put in a jar, your probably don't look forward to opening a new jar. That's because you have to mix the mix the oil that has separated out back with the peanuts. If you're like me, you slop the oil over the edge and make a mess.
Farmers Markets Near You
Here's a link that might be useful to some of you. It's titled Farmers Market Search and it's courtesy of the US Department of Agriculture. It finds local farmers markets.
Although it's filled with confusing, governmental acronyms, the query works to bring up farmers markets in the areas that you request.
Helpful: Read the instructions. Use the "%" wildcard.
Not Poison, but...
If you know it's bad, don't eat it
Readers Digest just published a piece called 4 Most Harmful Ingredients in Packaged Foods.
Leading the list of slow-acting poisons are trans fats and refined grains. Trans fats clog up your arteries. Refined grains play hell with your blood sugar.
In Defense of Food
Health for Less
Here from WebMD are 10 healthy foods for under $1.00. I'm impressed with navel oranges, which have note been on my list and soon will be. That's a lot of nutrition for 106 calories.
Oranges (extra large navel oranges)
Great for: Snacks, green salads, and fruit salads.
What's a serving? 1 large or extra large orange.
What Would Your Genes Do?
There is so much confusing information about health. It's hard to know what's bs without clearcut scientific evidence, which is really hard to come by. Like who's going to pay for experiments that only benefit the public good?
Try applying the gene test. How did our bodies evolve to nurture themselves?
Good News for Nut Nuts
This is a pretty old study, published Sept. 2006, that touts eating nuts. The study concludes:
Eating for Heart Health
In a recent paper published in the Journal of American College of Cardiology, writers address what they call "post-prandial dysmetabolism." It's what happens in your body after you eat junk, "The highly processed, calorie-dense, nutrient-depleted diet favored in the current American culture..." or too much of anything.
They say that post-prandial dysmetabolism is an "independent predictor of future cardiovascular events."
