This healthy parfrites recipe using whole food ingredients is a great alternative to french fries and much more nutritious with the added health benefits of raw garlic. After years without fries, I started experimenting in the kitchen to find a better and healthier alternative - then parsnips came to mind.
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My father-in-law Frank was a master-baker by trade and the most amazing chef I’d ever encountered! He created countless delicious recipes for family and customers, alike. I was also fortunate to get to spend a good amount of time in the kitchen with this amazing man, watching his techniques and learning from a true master, in every sense of the word.
This was one of his trademark recipes that I reworked to eliminate refined flour and sugar.
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Wild salmon is nutritious and carries many health benefits. Most notably, it is loaded with Omega-3 fatty acids that reduce inflammation, aid weight loss, lower cancer risk, and improve cardiovascular and neurological health.
Personally, we choose to buy wild salmon, as farmed are often fed corn and/or soya - both highly genetically modified and not nutritious for the fish. Farmed fish are also treated with antibiotics and are shown to have more contaminants than the wild variety. In return, these toxins enter our bodies when we ingest the fish and contribute to a whole host of other problems… I’ll save that discussion for another day!
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Almonds are delicious and nutritious! Ongoing research also suggests that adding almonds to your diet can aid with cholesterol reduction, and type 2 diabetes. I love almonds and eat them regularly, knowing they are a whole food with many health benefits.
I also love the crunch and the saltiness of a good nut. But I don’t love the price tag, or the fact that many of the roasted nuts on the market are laden with safflower or canola oil (and sometimes even sugar!).
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Interested in learning how to live a life without sugar? Let me show you how to experience the freedom of no longer being a slave to sugar’s carnality! Let me elaborate. As I wrote in last week’s blog post, sugar is toxic and brings destruction where ever it goes. It is a major factor in diabetes, feeds caner, and has been implicated in many other diseases.
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This timely article confirms how detrimental sugar can be to our health, and includes the fact sugar has been directly linked to feeding aggressive cancer cells.
To further follow-up on yesterday's article "Confessions of a Sugar Addict (Part 1)", it's great to see things are moving in the right direction - US products will now be required to list added sugars to the ingredients on their products (hopefully Canada will soon follow suit). Technology will help us stay informed, as well. The app mentioned in this article can help you detect how much sugar is in the food you eat. Though this app seems a bit cumbersome and may not be the most user-friendly, as my technologist husband says, you can't stop technology!
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I know it’s hard to believe that something you’ve eaten your whole life could be deadly, but sugar is just that.
Excess sugar consumption is a major factor behind skyrocketing rates of obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, and type 2 diabetes. You may be thinking “I don’t sit there eating handfuls of sugar” - but if you eat packaged, processed, or fast food, that is essentially what you are doing. Almost all packaged, processed foods and meats contain sugar. In fact, you may have noticed that sugar is everywhere!
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Every time I offered to make a shepherd’s pie for dinner, he’d groan and turn up his nose, stating that he hated shepherd’s pie. I tried the argument that he had never tried MY shepherd’s pie, but it never worked and he remained adamant that he would not like it.
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These gluten-free cookies are a great breakfast alternative for those busy mornings or just to enjoy as a good snack! They can be made Paleo or Vegan. The collagen and nut butter provide a punch of protein, and they are not too sweet. Of course, if you like them sweeter, feel free to add a bit more honey.
These can also easily be made Vegan by subbing the honey for agave.
Alternatively, you can use 3 eggs instead of the flaxseeds and water if you don’t have any flax on hand.
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I know there’s a lot of hype in the media about gluten. How gluten is responsible for this and for that. How people are changing what they eat and seeking out gluten-free options. I’m one of those people. Let me tell you why…
Do you get irritable or moody? Do you experience brain fog or get severe food cravings? Are you tired all the time?If so, it may be time to look at what you’re eating.
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Today I got word from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition that I passed my final exam and am officially a Registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN)! I was also told that I graduate with an honours certificate of merit :)
I never would have thought my life would end up taking a turn in this direction - after all, my entire life I only saw myself as one thing - a teacher. Not only that, but my diet growing up was, in one word - terrible! I was overweight, overstressed, and overmedicated.
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I grew up, like most, eating all those horribly delicious engineered foods that line our North American grocery store shelves.
As a result, I was overweight, tired and constantly sick with migraines, back pain and chronic throat, sinus and ear infections. After years of battling lower back pain, my malaise manifested into osteoarthritis with degenerative disc disease.
Soon after, a diagnosis of Hypothyroidism followed, only to awaken a thyrotoxicosis storm a year later. Grave’s Disease was the new diagnosis along with a bulging eye that eventually required two surgeries to correct.
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