Are you fed up with your current blender’s inability to blend more than just soft fruits and cooked vegetables? Are high end blenders worth the price tag or is it just hype? I wrote this review to help answer such questions, so you can decide for yourself if the Blendtec Total Blender is right for [...]

If you’re like me you grew up eating a fair amount of processed foods, meat, dairy, eggs and lots of stuff that can be hard on your body. You probably don’t even know what life is like without these foods.  I never did.  It never occurred to me that my food choices and my struggles in [...]

The pictures of milk in our minds is of goodness and health. It makes us think of sitting in front of the fire with Santa Claus and eating cookies. We remember all the “Got Milk” commercials and we get so excited. Our moms told us from the time we were small, to drink our milk [...]

When Imagine Foods released their flagship product, Rice Dream, onto the market in the early 80s, it was a blessing to many vegans and people with lactose intolerance. When I was a young vegan, there were few processed foods marketed toward folks of my ilk, so every one that appeared on the shelves was worth [...]

When almond milk was first on the market, my brother visited my house and spied a carton of almond milk in the refrigerator. Picking it up, he snorted derisively and asked, “How do you milk an almond?” Almond milk–and other milk alternatives–have come a long way since those early days! Now multiple brands and flavors can be found [...]

  Finally! Feel stronger, fitter, healthier and happier in 23 days by making one simple change to the food you eat A raw food diet will significantly improve your health and may even prolong your life From the breakfast bar of TV Presenter Shazzie, at her eco home, UK You’re probably already aware of the [...]

A Parents Jury survey of mothers found that good intentions to breastfeed were undermined by free formula milk samples in ‘Bounty packs’. Annie Seeley reports.Introduction   The government has recently confirmed advice from the World Health Organisation that exclusive breastfeeding for six months offers babies the best nutritional start in life. Yet nearly 30% of new [...]

Federal Judge Gordon Jay Quist found that cows owned by Scenic View Dairy had antibiotic levels too high for the animals to be sold for slaughter as human food, but he does not want to see the farm shut down. The U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of Michigan called for the U.S. [...]

As you’re probably aware of by now, there’s a war being waged against raw milk. It’s nothing less than an unconstitutional assault on one of your most basic rights, i.e. your right to choose what you want to eat and drink, and one of the excuses used to defend the violent persecution of those who [...]

Raw Food/Real World: 100 Recipes to Get the Glow   Top New York chef and restaurateur Matthew Kenney and his partner, Sarma Melngailis, had been thinking of opening a Moroccan restaurant. But one night they were invited to a raw food restaurant — and it changed their lives. They instead opened Pure Food and Wine, [...]