We love cooking with fresh herbs.  They provide amazing flavor for just about any dish you can cook and, if you grow them at home, cost very little. In this episode, we provide a high-level overview of herb gardening.  We […]

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Acclaimed actress, accomplished neuroscientist, awesome mom, and full-time vegan Mayim Bialik has now created a vegan cookbook, aptly called Mayim’s Vegan Table.   Packed with over 100 recipes plus four chapters full of helpful tips and guidelines, this book is […]

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Two of the biggest obstacles to eating healthy meals during the week are time and effort.  How often do we come home tired from a long day at work and end up eating pre-packaged, easy to cook foods or take-out fast […]

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One of the biggest arguments against eating fresh, wholesome, healthy foods involves time.  After a long day at the office and a long commute home, many people say it’s just too late to make a healthy meal and still eat […]

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Did you know that when “Super Size Me” was filmed back in 2004 only seven McDonald’s menu items (hash browns, sausage, chicken McNuggets, coffee, tea and diet coke) did not contain sugar?  How about the fact that a today’s ten-piece […]

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Raising animals for human consumption has a tremendous negative impact on our environment. Grazing animals such as cattle, sheep and goats release harmful gases into the atmosphere as part of their digestive process.  The estimated number of cattle currently being […]

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So, you’ve been juicing for a while now (like we have), and you love it (we do too).  But how do you know for sure you’re “doing it right”?  Are you prepping your fruits and veggies correctly?  What should you […]

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One of the questions most persistently asked of vegetarians and vegans is “How do you get enough protein?”  As any veg*n will tell you, this question gets old fast.  But how do we, especially at breakfast, which really is “the […]

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I’m sure many of you have had that ugly, burning feeling in your stomach or throat.  You know the one, where it feels like acid is burning holes in your gut.  This is a fire that water doesn’t put out, […]

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Despite the decades-long campaign that milk and other dairy products are essential for a healthy body, current evidence shows exactly the contrary.  The fact that humans are the only species that drink the milk of other animals should be a […]

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