As a change of pace from the news of the past week, we are going to focus on vegetable fermentation this weekend with the king of fermented foods, Sandor Katz. BUT WHO, you ask, is Sandor Katz? He is a self-descibed “fermented revivalist”. Click on the link to learn more, in his own words. You can also watch this:
Now, having learned about him, we present three of his videos on bacteria and fermentation. There is much to learn here.
FIRST, are you afraid of bacteria?
SECOND, now learn how to make your own fermented foods:
THIRD, still not sure? Fermentation FAQ: Can I get botulism from fermented veggies?
Now let’s say you’ve got the idea and you are interested. But what about those picky appetites children have. How will you ever get them to eat fermented foods?Our friends over at “Organic and Thrifty.com” to the rescue! Lacto-Fermented Foods for Kids: 15 Tips. There. That was easy!
Mark McAfee of Organic Pastures Dairy will be interviewed for two hours on Underground Wellness Radio this Tuesday, April 7 at 5PM PST.
More information including an opportunity to submit questions for Mark can be found here. Enter the forum, click on General Nutrition and then on “UW Radio: Questions for Raw Milker Mark McAfee”. All the information you need to listen and participate will be found there.
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WERE YOU ever curious about the specific sciencebehind the Weston Price findings? Critical reading if you want to understand WHY Weston Price was scientifically spot on.
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IT’S FIGHT BACK FRIDAY! over at Rood Renegade. Recipes, tips, anecdotes and testimonies at what may well be the world’s most attractively designed website.
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RAW FOOD as second puberty. Great concept to be sure but the blogger apparently assumes all cooked food is SAD (standard American diet) fare and not Real Food.
_ FOOD AND BEHAVIOR: The connection with children.
_ WHY I EAT ANIMALS: “Back in my early 20’s I went on the Atkins diet for a short time to help me lose some weight I gained in college. The weight melted off almost like magic and I felt great. Now, there were plenty of vegetarians back home in Missouri, but when I moved to Los Angeles I was bombarded by vegetarian and vegan restaurants and “health conscious” fanatics whose ideas about nutrition were quite different from the “traditional” diet I had been raised on and the Atkins diet that I did so well losing weight on. I started to feel bad about eating meat. I started to feel like I wasn’t a good person… Read the rest.She is right on. Don’t miss her comments on soy.
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MICHAEL R. EADES: Low Carbers — critical thinkers and a bulwark against illiteracy. Thought provoking.
Nina Planck talks about why she eats Real Food and gave up veganism and vegetarianism:
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LET’S NOT turn elderly people into patients. Amen.
_ “A GROWING NUMBER of students are interested in the area of nutrition and in pursuing jobs in health promotion, education, community wellness and public health.” Now all they need is a course in the nutritional greats like Weston Price and Francis Pottenger as a basis FOR those studies. _
MORE EUPHORIA over coffee and exercise.
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2009 FITNESS TRENDS. “Not surprisingly, computer-based fitness games and health data for the web stood out as big trends. One part irony, one part ingenuity, the health industry is using the very tools that are contributing to obesity to try and reverse the trend. For better or for worse, here’s what’s new and popular in the world of fitness.”
The Raw Milk Diet Cure
The pharmaceutical industry gets rich making drugs that “manage” rather than “heal” disease. But a licensed M.D. had astounding success with real healing using a simple food substance from nature: Grass-fed Raw Milk. Click Here to Continue Reading
How To Choose Real Foods
In a recent post, "Want Real Health? Real Food Is the Key", we defined “real health” and made the connection between real health and real food. Today we offer you some specific guidelines on how to choose real foods, not fake foods. Click Here to Continue Reading
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My name is Charles Welling. I am certified in Nutritional Therapy by the Nutritional Therapy Association of America. Having endured a weak childhood with many severe health challenges, I turned my life around. My goal is to live well, and help others do the same.
