Articles tagged “Healthy Foods”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Ginseng is the Green Way to Reduce Swelling By Josh Peterson IN Food & Health Jun 26 2009 Ginseng has been used in natural medicine for centuries.You?ll often find it boasted on those crazily named energy drinks.But before ginseng graced the side of a goofy energy can, it was busy bolstering the health of the convalescent, treating erectile dysfunction and Hepatitus C, the symptoms of menopause, keeping... + READ MORE

Raw Food for the Rest of Us By Sami Grover IN Food & Health Jun 26 2009 News that the Nation's first state-licensed raw food culinary academy is opening in Oklahoma got me thinking. For some reason I've always found the zeal and dogma displayed by some members (by no means all!) of the raw food movement as decidedly off-putting—and yet their argument is hard to counter. As noted in our guide to Green Foods—the less you cook and process your ingredients, the more nutritious they are likely to be. + READ MORE

Fire Up Your Metabolism and Burn More Calories Naturally with Herbs By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jun 24 2009 Does your metabolism need a jump start? Sure it's summer time and the sun is heating things up. But what about the fire that burns within your body? It's time to light a match in your metabolic mechanism by going green wiht herbs. + READ MORE

Is Watermelon Nature's Viagra? Try This Recipe and See for Yourself By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Jun 22 2009 It's actually pretty gross how much watermelon that I can eat before I've had my fill. I think that it's the texture. Sort of crunchy, filled with hydration, with an incredibly sweet overtone. But according to a study done at Texas A & M, the summer fruit may put you in the mood as well. The recent study found that watermelon can enhance the libido. + READ MORE

Choosing Hearty, Healthy Ingredients with Emeril (Video) By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Jun 22 2009 Cindy is a holistic counselor who loves to eat locally grown, organic foods. The problem is her fiance is a meat and potatoes kind of guy. In the Healthy Me, Healthy You episode of Emeril Green, Chef Emeril shows Cindy how to combine her love of healthy eating with her fiance?s love for hearty meats and cheeses + READ MORE

Vegan Moroccan Filo Crescents, Peanut Soba Noodles, Red Potato Salad and Coconut Vegetable Curry By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Jun 22 2009 Part II: 7 Easy Vegan Recipes to Get You Through Your First Week of Veganism: Vegan Moroccan Filo Crescents, Peanut Soba Noodles, Red Potato Salad and Coconut Vegetable Curry. + READ MORE

7 Easy Vegan Recipes to Get You Through Your First Week of Veganism By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Jun 22 2009 It can be a bit intimidating to go vegan all at once. What do I eat? I mean I know what I can't eat, but how do I put it all into a recipe? How can I make sure that my vegan meals are balanced and that my family will eat them as well? More and more people are at least cutting back on their meat consumption because it vastly reduces your eco-impact. It's best to hit the farmers' market and indulge in the healthiest, freshest produce available, especially because a vegan diet is almost completely produce driven. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Naturopathy By Mickey Z. IN Food & Health Jun 19 2009 Naturopathy is a "system of treatment of disease that avoids drugs and surgery and emphasizes the use of natural agents (as air, water, and sunshine) and physical means (as manipulation and electrical treatment)." + READ MORE

Emeril Green Episode: Healthy Me, Healthy You By Team Planet Green IN Emeril Green Jun 19 2009 She likes salad, he likes steak. How do you take two different tastes and make one healthy menu? Cindy is a holistic health counselor who loves healthy, seasonal eating, but her fiancé is a hamburger and pizza kind of guy.... + READ MORE

Sleep In Late to Lose Weight By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Jun 19 2009 First, I shared the sleep-in technique for scoring cheap farmers' market finds--now I bring it to you as one of the most affordable, waste-free (no miracle drugs required!) and fun ways to shed some pounds for the summer season. + READ MORE

Veggie Chips By Emma Alter IN Food & Health Jun 19 2009 Though Sara wrote about making potato chips a few weeks ago, I'm going to give you another way of making chips, and one with a slight variation: vegetable chips! Veggie chips are great because you get more than just potatoes: any solid vegetable can be made into a chip! I made it with beets, zucchini, turnip, and carrot, and sweet potato (and a regular potato, just to be sneaky!) but you could use anything: parsnips, pepper, and anything else that can be sliced on a mandolin. I stared longingly at my cauliflower (my absolute favourite vegetable), but somehow I thought it might not work as well. There are a lot of summer vegetables that work very well with this recipe, but it would also be great in the doldrums of winter when all you have to eat is parsnip: hey, why not fry it? + READ MORE

Sites We Love: We Love A Year of Slow Cooking for Easy, Delicious Recipes By Blythe Copeland IN Food & Health Jun 15 2009 If you thought slow-cookers went out of style alongside avocado-colored appliances and shag carpets, you weren?t entirely wrong. But as busy schedules push aside home-cooked meals and healthy dinners, the Crock-Pot is a foolproof?and eco-friendly?solution to the fast-food-every-night problem: it uses minimal energy, which is good for your wallet and your carbon footprint; it makes a ton of food, so you always have leftovers; you can use less expensive cuts of meat; and you can throw in meat and vegetables raw (or even frozen) before heading off to work and come home to a mouth-watering meal. + READ MORE

Lighten Things Up With A Pacific Garden Salad By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Jun 10 2009 As the weather in South Carolina warms, my appetite begins to diminish. I guess it?s just my body?s natural way of getting ready for bathing suit season. The heat always puts me in the mood for a light, crisp salad. I like the idea of incorporating tons of fruits into a savory salad like this one. I find that it?s always better to make a fresh salad at home (I?m still a little bitter about the mediocre and overpriced salad that I recently ordered at a restaurant in Charleston). + READ MORE

High-Carbon Foods = Acne-Causing Foods By Sara Novak IN Fashion & Beauty Jun 9 2009 We all know that you are what you eat and your body's largest organ, your skin, is no exception. While most would love to think that pimples were just part of puberty, that certainly isn't the case. Geez, I'm nurturing a stress breakout right now. And according to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and discussed in this month's Natural Solutions, breakouts affect nearly 55 percent of women and 40 percent of men over 25. Dr. Richard Fried author of Healing Adult Acne recommends keeping track of what you eat in a food log and skipping the following foods in your plight to keep the pimples at bay. What's more: these food tend to have a higher carbon footprint than local, organic produce which is good for your skin. + READ MORE

Quit Buying Mushrooms, Grow Your Own at Home By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Home & Garden Jun 8 2009 Mushrooms are very nutritious and also very easy to grow. Though getting them started may seem like a challenge if you aren't quite sure where to begin. + READ MORE

Tempeh Nicoise Salad By Sara Novak IN Food & Health May 15 2009 I often used to order Nicoise salads at restaurants. They?re generally healthy and delicious, and feature an interesting combination of flavors and textures. But recently, I?ve started to cut back on my seafood intake. First, I strayed from large fish like tuna because of concerns about mercury content and sustainability. Then, I just seemed to stray a little more. + READ MORE

Know Which Four Foods Control Your Blood Sugar and Diabetic Symptoms Naturally? By Sara Novak IN Food & Health May 15 2009 Diabetes affects nearly one in 12 people in this country and that statistic is on the rise. Type 2 Diabetes is largely due to your diet and once you're diagnosed with the disease there are a number of foods that are off limits. Instead of what you can't eat, why not learn about the foods that can actually help treat your symptoms? According to New Life Journal, here are some unlikely foods that diabetics can experiment with in their diets. + READ MORE

Meet Joy Pierson of NYC's Famed Vegan Restaurant, Candle 79 By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect May 14 2009 The term "food as medicine" could make many lose their appetite. We think flavorless, steamed veggies, broth or too-bitter-to-sip wheatgrass elixirs. But there?s one woman breaking the mold who has mastered the craft of making nutritious, healthy food that?s also downright delicious. Think guacamole, Caesar salads, Tuscan lasagna and chocolate mousse pie! + READ MORE

The Planet Hates Soda and So Do Your Kidneys By Sara Novak IN Food & Health May 14 2009 We all know that soda isn't the best thing for us. Josh wrote about how soda is a huge source of empty calories. You can drink a bottle of sweet-tasting soda and still have room to down a sandwich or something, and the soda will have as many calories as the entree. Not only is soda bad for you, it's bad for the planet considering that cans and plastic bottles are hugely wasteful. Even though they can be recycled, it takes energy to recycle them. + READ MORE

Rockfish Recovery Means Plentiful, Delicious Fish (Video) By Sara Novak IN Food & Health May 11 2009 Rockfish are considered a best bet when choosing sustainable seafood, but that wasn't always the case. On the recent episode of Emeril Green, Emeril discusses the serious overfishing problem that plagued the Chesapeake Bay just two decades ago. + READ MORE