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A Sweet, Sweet Summer: What are the Facts on Stevia?

September 22nd, 2011 · 69 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition

Pin ItA safe, natural sweetener with zero calories and zero aftertaste that doesn’t cause cancer in lab rats? Is that a dream too good to be true? I’m hoping not. Stevia is fast becoming my favorite formerly-unknown sweetener, if only for the mystery surrounding it, the foodie vs. government controversy, and the fact that I [...]

6 Steps to a Real Food Diabetes Diet {GUEST POST}

August 24th, 2011 · 59 Comments · Science of Nutrition, Special Situations

Pin ItThere are now 25.8 million people in the United States alone who have diabetes according to the American Diabetes Association. This number does not include the countless people who have been diagnosed with pre-diabetes, gestational diabetes, or the many who live with the symptoms but have not yet been diagnosed. Diabetes is becoming a [...]

A Sweet, Sweet Summer: Unrefined Dehydrated Whole Cane Sugar (Sucanat, Rapadura, Panela and Muscovado)

August 10th, 2011 · 59 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition

Pin It Unrefined sugars can be SO confusing. Not only are they unfamiliar in the culture, tough to find at your local grocery store, and a maze of nutritional myths when it comes to the question, “Are unrefined sugars healthier than white sugar?” but then you’ve got 3 and 4 names for basically the same [...]

A Sweet, Sweet Summer: Why is White Sugar Bad For You?

July 22nd, 2011 · 62 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition

Pin It We put it in coffee, get tempted by it in desserts, and hardly even know how often it’s added into savory processed foods. Sugar certainly makes life sweeter, but is it also the underlying villain in nutrition? There are plenty of reasons white, refined sugar will hurt you when you eat it. Some [...]

A Sweet, Sweet Summer: Maple Syrup and Maple Sugar Facts

July 14th, 2011 · 35 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition

Pin ItI put my pure Michigan maple syrup right next to my in-laws’ sugar-free (taste-free?) maple “syrup” in the fridge the other day and reflected on how people try so very, very hard to find a “healthy” alternative to sweets. In the mainstream, this usually means something “low-calorie” with little nutrition in it or something [...]

Download “Is Your Flour Wet?” (a soaked grains eBook) for FREE!

May 9th, 2011 · 16 Comments · Recipes, Science of Nutrition

Pin ItIt’s finally here! The free Ebook Is Your Flour Wet? Soaked, Sprouted, or Soured: Grains Recipes from Our Kitchens to Yours is ready for downloading! It’s 84 pages long, contains 45 recipes from a whole bunch of favorite real food bloggers, and includes a bunch of Kitchen Stewardship information and how-to tutorials on the [...]

Food for Thought: Is There Such a Thing as Healthy Salt?

March 4th, 2011 · 38 Comments · Food for Thought, Science of Nutrition

Pin It Salt has really gotten a bad reputation over the last few decades. It’s been pegged as a culprit in hypertension (high blood pressure) and many people across the nation are on a low salt diet. Some food companies are so dedicated to producing low-salt foods that they end up making no-taste foods. I [...]