Seven Healthy Foods You Should Try

If you eat these foods regularly, you are probably healthier than your neighbors:

  1. Brown Rice (preferably pressure-cooked short grain, this time of year)
  2. Seaweed (Nori, Wakame, Kombu, Arame, Dulse, Hiziki, Agar)
  3. Mushrooms (white, portobello, shiitake, maitake, porcini, oyster, etc.)
  4. Daikon Radish
  5. Umeboshi Plums, paste, pills, etc.
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Avoid These Five Foods & Feel Better Fast

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Autumn is a great time of year. The kids are back in school, our scrapbooks are filled with memories of our wonderful summer, and the harvest time brings great foods and beautiful foliage.

But winter is coming, and with it comes a need for stress relief, and more powerful foods.… Read the rest

Top 10 Healthy Eateries In Greater Boston

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There are perhaps 5,000 restaurants in greater Boston. How many have you tried? I’ve hit 250.

Most of them use way too much salt, and the wrong kind of salt, as well as white flour, and animal products loaded with pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, and who knows what else.… Read the rest

Sweet Vegetable Drink For What Ails You

Welcome to late summer in New England! Sure it’s going to hit 90 today, but we are always a bit behind the times in Boston, no?

I hope back to school or work, or moving, or whatever season your life is in, is going well.… Read the rest

Eating Out Healthy

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Healthy people don’t eat out frequently. Portions are huge, the food is often not fresh, and it generally contains too much salt, sugar, chemicals, etc., even when it’s vegan.

If you must go out, here are a few tips:

  1. Go vegetarian or vegan (animal foods have more bacteria, fat, chemicals, etc.,
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Foods For High Blood Pressure Control

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Say you are 50, and you’ve got mild Crohn’s Disease, but it’s being treated, and you are otherwise in decent health. Maybe 10 pounds overweight, don’t exercise enough, too much work stress, etc. Pretty common situation in today’s world.

Now you go for your physical, and the doctor informs you that your blood pressure is a bit high.… Read the rest

Avoid Most Restaurants If You Want To Live Past 60

People are dropping like flies. True, Nelson Mandela is hanging on at 94, and Betty White is feeling just fine thank you very much.

But for each one of these, there are ten like Dennis Farina, James Gandolfini, Bonnie Franklin, and many more that died from drugs, alcohol, violence or suicide.… Read the rest