Prevent disease, promote health, and protect the planet by eating mindfully
Posted in Healthy Tips, Nutrition Calculator on Nov 2nd, 2009
It’s no secret that label decoding is tricky business, and unless you’ve got a degree in nutrition nailed to your office wall it’s likely that many manufactured ingredients will get lost in translation. They might however show up at your next check up, transformed into a pesky little diet related disorder – like ADHD, or [...]
Posted in Healthy Tips, Nutrition Calculator, Nutrition News on Sep 15th, 2009
Did you know Muranaka Farm recently recalled its parsley, and Premier Organics recalled over 800 cases of Tahini last week – both because of potential Salmonella contamination? No, me neither.
Posted in Eco-friendly Eating, Healthy Tips on Aug 7th, 2009
If you can afford for everything in your eco-friendly shopping bag to be organic, then I say “go for it.” But let’s face it organic produce can be expensive, and with the economy in the toilet, money isn’t exactly growing on pesticide-free trees.
Posted in Eco-friendly Eating, Healthy Tips on Jul 30th, 2009
Gone are the days when the grossest thing about biting into your “Golden Delicious,” was coming face to face with a worm. Nowadays you have to worry about the welter of toxic chemicals that cover your previously clean-living “Granny Smith.” And, are you even sure that your favorite “Pink Lady” is as fresh as she [...]
Posted in Healthy Tips on Jul 27th, 2009
Welcome to the new and improved version of The Epi-Cure – where you can lean how to prevent disease, promote health, and protect the planet by eating mindfully.
Get your daily dose of nutrition news, healthy recipes, disease fighting diets, expert interviews, tips on how to eat green, ways to minimize your growing girth, and much [...]
Posted in Healthy Tips, Nutrition News on May 27th, 2009
By the end of a busy day, most of us have missed the banana boat when it comes to garnering our daily nutritional requirements. So whether you’re heading out or staying in, it’s important to make every bite count. There’s so much debate about what to eat and what to eliminate, it’s hard to boil [...]
Posted in Healthy Tips, Nutrition News on May 26th, 2009
My old college lab partner used to call Coke the “death doctor,” because it was the perfect remedy to a deathly hangover. However, mounting scientific evidence suggests there might have been a subconscious truth to his witty rhetoric about the “dark side” of cola.
Posted in Healthy Tips on Apr 23rd, 2009
I know, this is hardly a post about the delicious, nutritious and healthy eating habits we should be imparting on our children, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to give the cyber “middle finger” to my high school principal who gave me countless Saturday morning detentions for chewing gum (and sticking it under the [...]
Posted in Healthy Tips, Nutrition News on Apr 21st, 2009
News Flash: Some experts are pegging high fructose corn syrup as the devil of the diabetes epidemic – and it seems, with good reason. Diets steeped in sugar are not only bad for those of us waging war on our waistlines, but a new study suggests that certain sugars trigger more health problems than others.
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