Is Your Organic Garden Toxic?

by Allan Little October 17, 2009
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Recently I’ve talked with several friends who were using treated wood to border their organic gardens. NOOOOOOOO!!!!
Bordering an organic garden with pesticide impregnated wood is a risk I’m not willing to take. Pressure-Treated Wood can leach pesticides into the soil and potentially into your food. Most people don’t think about how wood is made to [...]

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Hot Pockets Are Not A Food Group

by Sue Rostvold October 5, 2009
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I saw the new Hot Pockets commercial recently and then noticed they have their own section in the frozen food aisle of my local grocery store. Yikes! I didn’t know they were that popular.

NewsFlash: Hot Pockets are not a food group! In fact, in my opinion,  they aren’t even real food.

When you make your food [...]

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Start A Prosperity Garden

by Allan Little October 4, 2009
Allan Plants A Garden From Seed

Just because you live in the city, doesn’t mean you can’t have your own bountiful garden! Over labor day weekend I planted my third, and my biggest, winter garden yet. Our front yard used to be completely covered with water-hungry St. Augustine grass, but now I would say that eighty percent  of it is organic [...]

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Swim With Pigs, Don’t Eat Them

by Sue Rostvold September 26, 2009
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Animals are so cool! It doesn’t matter if it’s a chicken, dog, cow, kitty, or a pig, they all have feelings and personalities. I found these awesome photos on Flickr of these pigs that live on the beach in the Bahamas. It looks like so much fun to swim and play with them. They don’t [...]

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Overfed and Undernourished

by Allan Little September 25, 2009
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About every week or ten days I realize there is no brown rice ready to anchor a meal, so I end up making pasta with sauce to fill fhe void. Even though I saute fresh garlic, onions, and other vegetables, the bulk of meal is made from refined and processed food products, namely the pasta [...]

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Have You Ever Met A Chewing Enthusiast?

by Sue Rostvold September 24, 2009
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You might think that Jessica Porter is a little, umm… out there, I guess you might say. I think she is funny, smart and right on when it comes to nutrition. Jessica wrote the wildly popular book, “A Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics“. She knows how make healthy, delicious meals and appears to have a [...]

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Cooking Brown Rice In A Pressure Cooker

by Allan Little September 23, 2009
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This is how I cook short grain brown rice in a pressure cooker.

Most important tips

Wash the rice well
Soak the rice for at least 3 hours, preferably more
Add high quality sea salt or Kombu (seaweed) right before cooking
Turn the flame down low after it reaches full pressure
Use a flame tamer, especially [...]

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A Doctor Talking About Diet?

by Sue Rostvold September 22, 2009
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The U.S. Health Care System is a system based on profit. If it’s intention was to really make people healthy it would be a very unprofitable system. – All the financial incentive is towards sickness.
~ Dr. John McDougall

I want to share some insightful and powerful videos featuring Dr. John McDougall. He’s a well known physician [...]

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What Is Your Foundation?

by Allan Little September 21, 2009
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A building needs a foundation. A bridge requires strong and deep piers to achieve it’s span. A well functioning society thrives on laws based on justice and fairness. We as human beings, need a nutritional foundation as well. This should be a staple that promotes good health. Brown rice is an excellent choice.
Whether you realize [...]

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Don’t Wait For Health Care Reform

by Sue Rostvold September 20, 2009
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The health care system in the United States is broken, and has been for a long time. It seems that more people are turned down for health insurance than accepted. We can not wait for U.S. Health Care Reform to make us healthier. Allan and I have decided to get even more serious about our [...]

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