Category : health

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Beyond Organic

Recently, Jeremy took a trip with my cousin Josh, who he works for, to southern Missouri. They went to the Beyond Organic Ranch for Josh to be interviewed for a TV show (coming this fall on TBN), film some videos for their website, and learn about the products being developed.

Grow your own fresh air

Grow your own fresh air

Researcher and business owner Kamal Meattle has identified the plants necessary to effectively replace all the air you use in your house without turning your home or office into a jungle. This could very well be a replacement for those expensive air purifiers we’ve all see in the Brookstone or Sharper Image stores. See below [...]

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Raw Almonds: Not Really Raw!

“Since September 1, 2007, raw untreated California almonds have technically not been available in the United States. Controversially, California almonds labeled as “raw” are required to be steam-pasteurized or chemically treated with propylene oxide.” – source So this one is really upsetting to me if only because they are using a word to describe a [...]

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ReaLemon® Juice: Real or Fake?

Brought to you by the same people who manufacture Dr. Pepper and Snapple products, ReaLemon® lemon juice from concentrate tries to portray itself as a real, “natural” product, but is it really? No! If you’re like me, when I think about putting lemon juice into my smoothie or on a tilapia fillet, I certainly don’t [...]

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Chia for your health

In the book, Born to Run, during the stories of the running people (tarahumara) the author recounts a particular beverage that they have, based on a seed that has been grown for many many years. You have almost certainly heard of it, as it is called Chia and is in fact the same stuff as [...]

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Peanut Butter: What is it? What should it be?

There are many “food like substances” (borrowed from Michael Pollan) out there that seem to masquerade as real, edible foods. On the surface they appear to be something innocuous, but contain many, many more ingredients than you think it should and some you may not have ever heard of. Peanut butter is one such food. [...]

Happy Healthy Holiday

Happy Healthy Holiday

Thanksgiving is upon us. Time for feasting and gathering together with family, but it is no reason to let your normal workout go out the window. For over 8 years in a row and sporadically before that I have been participating in a 5 mile running race called the Miamisburg Turkey Trot. It is a [...]

Venerable Vinegar Use #1 – All-purpose cleaner

Remember the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding, where the dad used windex for everything and that one scene where he’s got his elbow sitting in a bowl of it?…Yeah, vinegar is pretty universal just like that…and speaking of windex, vinegar is a great replacement for it as well as most of your other household [...]

Vinegar Use #1 – Fancy Sports Detergent Replacement

Our goal with this website/blog is to give practical ways to simplify life. Sometimes that means making something yourself, or spending less money. To that end we want to not only show why vinegar is such a great liquid, but to give actual uses for it. This is the first of those uses. I discovered [...]

Venerable Vinegar

Venerable or Commanding Respect is a good way to describe what is truly one of the most versatile liquids at our disposal…Vinegar. We all have some, in a cleaning cabinet or a pantry, laundry room or yes, even the shed. There are so many possible uses for vinegar it’s just about the closest thing to [...]