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A Case For Wheat-Free and Against the Grain

Wheat.  Seems so innocent, a base for comfort food, a staple in a lot of homes.  What argument could sway one to avoid eating a principal ingredient dating back to at least the Agricultural Revolution 10,000 years ago?  Wheat’s a plant.  Whole …

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Cold Hard Ingredients in Cold Stone Creamery

When 5,000+ people purchase a Groupon in a day, redeemable at only one Seattle location, the vendor has some fans.  The offer last weekend was $5 for $10 worth of Cold Stone Creamery treats. 

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Do you take your coffee bleached?

It’s a small, relatively cheap accessory that helps welcome the day for many of us.  I’m not worrying about your multi-vitamin at the moment; I’m talking about coffee

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About that Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner

When in Rome... Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Dinner lacks something. It lacks artificial food dyes (yellow 5 and yellow 6), or tartrazine.  Kraft products shipped to Europe and Australia are altered. European

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Stop the Margarine madness!

Dearest FDA, Couldn't our ingredient labels simply include: FOOD or NOT FOOD, following a list of partially-hydrogenated this or mono-diglycerides that? Mother Nature and margarine just can't relate to

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Microwaves Full Circle

Many hours in grad school, hours worked at two new jobs, books read, journals thoroughly combed and researched, papers written, presentations given, late nights, early mornings, and hours

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Aspirin contributes to strokes

...and other health disorders and disease. There's proof. "According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), an aspirin a day increases the risk for a hemorrhagic stroke

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MSG and HFCS in Campbell’s Soup

For many, many reasons it’s so mmm mmm good. For the Campbell’s corporation. Let’s talk about soup, baby. Let’s talk about you and me. I, for one, grew

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Aluminum in Baking Powder

It's the latest rage: Aluminum is bad for baking. It's bad for your brain and your underarms. It's not only a foil, a soda can, a

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Detox: Cleansing Your Kitchen

My kitchen has never been subjected to a maple syrup detox diet. On that note, it's never undergone the raw food diet, herbal detox, Hallelujah diet

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