photo credit Chia seeds seem to be the newest “buzz food” in the health community. You hear about them in the context of raw foods, low-carb foods, omega-3 rich foods and more. So are these tiny little seeds a “real food” or not? More to the point are they a nutritious addition to our diets?…
This article was originally written on May 6th, 2009. It would be great if we were in good enough health to simply continue to eat the nourishing food that we’ve always eaten and not worry about needing supplements to boost our health. The problem when you’ve only eaten this way for a few years is…
“Or what if I had simply grown up in a time when food was seasonal? When there was, in each year, a time of more and a time of less? When food was not just there in packages on the supermarket shelf all year?” ~ Jessica Prentice ~ Welcome to another edition of Food Roots!…
photo credit For a long time I thought that fish oil and cod liver oil were basically the same thing, nutritionally speaking. In the last year or so I found out that I was wrong. In order to balance out our omega-3s we have been taking fish oil for quite some time now. Eating grass-fed…
