Raw Food Redux

Sometimes the universe tries to give you hints. I’ve been thinking for a while that I need to make changes to my diet—lean more towards vegetables and away from meat. Lately I keep running into recipes for great raw vegetable dishes. I’m not even looking for them, but they just keep popping up. So I’m taking the hint. I’ve decided from Monday through Friday it’s going to be all raw all the...

Iodine and Natural Skin Care

I use a leave-in hair treatment that contains iodine. As far as I know it’s the only product of its kind that contains iodine, so of course I was a little miffed when it wasn’t in stock. I looked at some of the other products in the same line and was surprised to see that while the ingredients didn’t list iodine, dulse was listed. What is dulse you ask? Gentle reader, dulse is a kind of seaweed that is rich...

Bacon That’s Good For You

Seaweeds are remarkable for the sheer number of nutrients they contain. A more accurate term would be sea vegetable. Of course, now that we are aware of their value, they are grown commercially. Some of the wild versions are actually in danger of being over harvested and there are laws about when and who can harvest them. Luckily, you cannot patent an entire plant and, so for not much money, you can receive amazing health...