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To Peel or Not to Peel Vegetables: How Much Fiber Do You Actually Need?

To Peel or Not to Peel Vegetables: How Much Fiber Do You Actually Need?

Your Variable Fiber Needs While a high-fiber diet is preferable, it’s not always apt. A high-fiber diet gets you more nutrition and supports regularity. But if your colon is inflamed, then it’s best to favor a non-irritating low-fiber diet until you’ve recovered. Here’s how to discern whether or not it’s best to peel that carrot.… Continue Reading

Pale Lips — Cold Fingers

Pale Lips — Cold Fingers

A cold touch and pale or even bluish lips are, one could argue, not so welcoming. Conversely, there’s a sense of well-being conveyed by both a warm handshake and (among Caucasians) naturally pink lips. There are medical reasons for cold extremities (see below), but the most obvious cause is often overlooked and, no matter your… Continue Reading

The Healthiest Way to Enjoy Saffron

Sun Tea–A Double Shot of Sunshine Likened to liquid sunshine, saffron tea is luminous, golden and uplifting. It’s smooth with a subtle floral flavor and the delicate lift that it gives makes me reach for it often. It’s the anticipation of that lift that has me setting a shot glass filled with water and a… Continue Reading

How to Prevent or Resolve Autoimmune Disease

How to Prevent or Resolve Autoimmune Disease

You can resolve or mitigate autoimmune disease. If you suffer from progressively worsening symptoms that baffle your doctor, or if you’re diagnosed with a chronic disease, then odds are it’s autoimmune related. In autoimmunity, your immune system mistakenly attacks your healthy cells. Autoimmune disease (AD) refers to a varied group of illnesses that involve every… Continue Reading

Discolored Skin around Your Mouth

Uneven Pigmentation Around Lips

Your lips play a key role in your social identity and because they top off your gastrointestinal system, they reveal its condition according to traditional Chinese medicine. As above, so below. Should you have vitiligo, a recurring rash, a milk mustache, blotchy or discolored skin around your mouth, this mirrors problems underneath your belt. Look… Continue Reading

Three Reasons to Soak, Sprout and/or Ferment Grains, Beans, Nuts and Seeds

Enhanced flavor is the first of three important reasons to soak grains, beans, nuts and seeds. To further blossom the flavor of these seeds, they can also be fermented or sprouted. In your mind’s eye, mentally compare the full, rich flavors and aromas of fermented sourdough bread to the more simple aroma and flavor profile… Continue Reading

Dandelion Greens

Dandelion greens are the most nutritious leafy vegetable that you can buy (see chart below). Foraged greens are the first spring vegetable, they come on even earlier than asparagus, and they make a great spring tonic. But do enjoy them year round as a kitchen remedy and tasty green. Reflect on how their resilience hints… Continue Reading

Autoimmune Disease

If you suffer from an autoimmune disease, become a sleuth—daily track your flare-ups and remissions. That its intensity waxes and wanes is a key to help you take control of your health. In your daily log include your diet and any other variables that might relate to your condition. Each entry on the log becomes… Continue Reading

Diet for Lupus and Autoimmune Disease

Diet for Lupus and Autoimmune Disease

Lupus is a sobering condition; however, as an original cause was malabsorption, you can profoundly minimize its effects and progression by improving your digestion. This is true for all other autoimmune diseases. When your diet is healing, you rebuild your foundational health and strengthen your immune system. Also see Prevent or Resolve Autoimmune Disease. How… Continue Reading

Could You be Gluten Sensitive?

If you think you might be sensitive to gluten, it’s important to find out for sure. Here’s why. Early identification and repair give you better odds that you can again enjoy wheat in good health. Lingering in the murky realm of “maybe I do or maybe I don’t” and having another piece of toast is… Continue Reading


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