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Dietary Guidelines for Healthy Living

In a world filled with advertisements for weight loss and wellness products offering results that seem too good to be true, it is refreshing to come back to simple truths. We respond best to healthy lifestyle. Clean, fresh, wholesome food provides nutritious building blocks for healthy bodies. The following are some dietary guidelines by the Weston A. Price Foundation.

Cucumber and Dried Shiitake Mushroom Salad Recipe

Certain mushrooms such as Reishi, Trukey Tail, Shitake, Matiake, and Chaga, are well documented to enhance over-all immunity. Here is one recipe that is easy to make that can help boost you immunity.

Radioprotective Foods And Other Things You Can Do

One thing you can do is eat foods rich in quality iodine so that it doesn’t need to absorb iodine from the atmosphere. Edible seaweeds such as kelp, kijiki, nori, and dulse have contain quality iodine, as do miso and natural sea salt. Mushrooms such as, Resishi, Turkey Tail, Matiake, Shitake, and Chaga, are very important.

Myths & Truths About Nutrition

Proper nutrition can go a long way to supporting a person’s health. While I believe in general there is no right diet for every person. I do believe that there are general truths about diet and nutrition. What I have learned about nutrition has come out of my work in cultural anthropology/archaeology. We are omnivores by nature.

Benefits of Lacto-Fermented Foods: Easy Recipe for Sauerkraut

Lacto-fermented food has been used as a way of preserving food for centuries. It is one of the best sources of natural pro-biotics – natural bacteria that is beneficial to aid in digestion and keep us well. Learn how to make your own.