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2010 Fruit and Vegetable Pesticide Guide

Simple – Pesticides are not health promoting. The less you ingest, the better. Pesticides are often used on fruits and vegetables during the growing process, yet fruits and vegetables are critical for overall health. See the potential conflict? Fortunately you can eat your important fruits and vegetables and limit your pesticide exposure with a bit [...]

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Healthy Sweet Treats You May Not Know About

I have recently encountered a couple under-the-radar fruits that actually taste like a treat. These treats actually include nutritional value not often associated with such a word. Let’s check them out. Subtle Sweetness – Dried Fig This bite-sized piece of fruit is one of the first plants cultivated by humans and was an endurance sports fuel source [...]

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Tasty and Healthy Recipe: Turkey Spinach Lasagna

Healthy – Nutritious – Tasty – Easy to Make – Contains Green Stuff All this in a meal not often associated with the above descriptive words and phrases – Lasagna We have been making this tasty little Lasagna dish for more years than I can remember and it still remains a family favorite and great for [...]

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Clif Bar Giveaway Drawing

For those that entered the Clif Bar Giveaway…here is the official drawing for the two gift packs. The wind started blowing a bit more towards the end, so the audio is a bit windy. (If you can’t see the video, click here.) Congrats to the two winners and a huge thanks to all those that [...]

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Clif Bar – More Than Just An Endurance Sports Energy Bar Company

[Disclosure: A few moths ago I received a Clif Bar package from the marketing firm Double Forte which contained a sampling of various Clif Bar products. With that being said, the comments and opinions below are purely my own.] Clif Bar & Company – 5 Aspirations Sustaining our Planet Sustaining our Community Sustaining our People Sustaining our [...]

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Sports Nutrition: More Is Not Always Better

That’s why your focus should NOT be “How many calories can I consume before I get sick?” but rather, “What is the least amount of calories I need to consume to keep my body doing what I want it to do hour after hour?” Talk about a paradigm shift. Think about that for a moment. [...]

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Easy Vegetarian Recipe: Quinoa Chowder

Being a fan of Quinoa for the last year or so, my family has continued to expand our list of recipes that use this hearty, high protein, edible seed. We recently enjoyed some big bowls of Quinoa Chowder to warm us up during some of these cool winter days. Ingredients List 2 cups uncooked Quinoa, [...]

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