The Trouble with Eating Grains and Legumes

Plants Fight Back with Toxins Anti-Nutrients and Toxins in Seeds (Grains, Legumes, Nuts, and Others) Grains, legumes (beans, peas, lentils, soybeans, peanuts, etc.), nuts, and other seeds have developed anti-nutritional factors and toxins for … [Read more...]

Nutrition Workshop

I want to thank Herb Parran for inviting me to his Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) class to speak about nutrition today.  Tai Chi is practiced for health, stress reduction, spiritual, and/or martial aspects, so Herb wanted to provide his students with … [Read more...]

Pastured Chickens and Grass-Fed, Raw Milk from Family Friendly Farm

Last year, in an effort to stop buying store-bought, grain-fed animal products that promote Western diseases and inhumane treatment of animals, I searched for farms nearby to purchase products from.  While it wasn't close,  Family Friendly Farm had … [Read more...]

Cancer, other Diseases, and the Nutrition Connection – Part 1: High-Carb, Low-Fat Diets

I'm dedicating this series of articles to a friend  -- who just went through cancer surgery and is undergoing chemotherapy -- because much of the mainstream wisdom on diets and their effects on cancer, just like other Western diseases, isn't true or … [Read more...]

Connection between Nutrition and Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, and other Autoimmune Diseases

A friend and I were emailing each other, and she said her fibromyalgia was making her feel horrible. My first thought about the fibromyalgia was that it was a nutrition-based health problem, like so many other health problems that I've been reading … [Read more...]