Getting enough iron as a vegetarian

The perfect combination, meat and spinach. But it’s not so perfect for someone who does not eat meat. Here’s how you can get more iron into your body without adding meat to your diet.
Adding vitamin C to your diet helps your body absorb iron more effectively. Another non-animal product is red wine. Did you Know [...]

Olives

Olives are concentrated in monounsaturated fats and are a source of vitamin E, iron, copper, calcium, and dietary fiber. Vitamin E is the body’s primary fat-soluble antioxidant. It goes after and directly neutralizes free radicals in all the fat-rich areas of the body.
The anti-inflammatory actions of the monounsaturated fats and vitamin E in olives may [...]

Magic of Mushrooms

Mushrooms have been used for medicinal purposes and as food for thousands of years. Although they sometimes get classified as a vegetable they are in fact a fungi. They are low in carbohydrates and have no cholesterol. They contain high lean protein.
Shiitake mushrooms have been used for centuries by the Chinese and Japanese to treat [...]

Lupini Beans

Lupini beans are one of the highest in protein content, second only to soy beans.
Lupini Beans are commonly sold in a brine in jars  kind of like like olives and pickles. They can be eaten by making a small tear in the skin with your teeth and “popping” the seed directly into your mouth.
They have [...]

Sauerkraut for Heartburn?

Funny how parents are always parents and always wiser then their children, even when the children are ‘old people’. I happen to mention to my dad that I had heartburn. He told me to eat sauerkraut.
At first I didn’t believe him and just thought it was an old tale from our old country. But since [...]

Benefits of Dark Chocolate

Before we get too excited, this article is about the benefits of dark chocolate (with 65% or more of cocoa content).
Chocolate is made from a plant. Dark chocolate may contain some of the same benefits as dark vegetables.
Did you know that dark chocolate:

stimulates endorphin production, which gives you a feeling of pleasure
contains serotonin, which acts [...]

How do you remember to bring your own grocery bag?

Going green is a term we will have to get used to. It is becoming part of our every day life.
Last June, the government banned the use of free plastic grocery bags from retailers. When shopping you must now pay 5c for each bag. It must be working because I see a lot of people [...]