I never thought I’d eat a cheeseburger again.  Those of you who read my blog know I eat goat cheese occasionally.  But recently I also started eating red meat again.  Grass-fed beef, that is.  It’s a totally different experience.  It has a very distinct flavor, and healthier fats.  Not only is it healthier to eat grass-fed beef, but [...]

 
Ok, so the curiosity finally got to me.  I’ve dipped my toes in with a tiny tastes here and there (see The Raw Milk Experiment, Part I), but I was never going to find out how I truly react to raw milk without buying a bottle and actually drinking it.  So one day when I [...]

 
2010 is the year of the census, or so we’ve been hearing a lot lately.  It’s also my fifth year into this gluten-free, dairy-free, mostly sugar-free lifestyle, and time for me to take a nutritional count.  Am I getting enough of the nutrients I need?  What am I missing?  When you cut out whole food [...]

It is ironic that today, the day that Massachusetts elected a Republican who vowed to stop health care reform in its tracks, we got a letter from our health insurance company saying that they are going to raise our premium by 70 percent.  SEVENTY percent.  Is that even legal??  Not that they ever paid a [...]

 
Guess what I tried at the farmers’ market yesterday.  For the first time I noticed someone selling raw milk and they were giving out samples.  I jumped on it.  Not that I was all that excited to drink milk again.  It has been many years since I’ve had it, after discovering I had a dairy [...]

Hello everyone, it has come to my attention that there were problems with the link provided in this post (oops!).  My apologies, here it is again with the corrected link that should work this time!
 
My friend Trevor is starting an online course called the Vegan/Vegetarian Mastery Program, with tips and weekly lessons about how to thrive [...]

 
As you may have read in my recent posts, I have been nursing a fractured hand after a bike accident over the 4th of July weekend.  In fact, yesterday was three weeks from the incident and I went to the doctor and was allowed to remove the splint permanently because the bone is healing well.  [...]

And A Word About Healthy Fats

Monday night I had the privilege of meeting the great Michael Pollan at a book signing in the east bay.  If you have not read Michael Pollan, you need to - The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Foodare required reading if you are interested in conscious eating, which you [...]

 
Alright, I just can’t resist responding to the hysteria that is going around regarding the swine flu.  This post doesn’t have much to do with being gluten-free or dairy-free but rather health and wellness in general, and peace of mind.  The media is acting like the world is about to end, and people are going along with [...]

Today in the Science Times there was a piece by John Tierney on Mayor Bloomberg’s initiative to cut the amount of salt in processed and restaurant foods in half in New York City (link to article here).  Mr. Tierney asserts that the initiative is unwillingly making all New Yorkers participate in a study to see [...]