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Why Water Quality Matters

ahewcn — Sat, 12 May 2012 03:50:01 +0000

It is clear that drinking water is more beneficial to the body than drinking sodas, coffee, tea and juice, but so few people pay attention to the quality of the water they consume.

Tap water, for example, is filled with harmful contaminants such as chlorine, fluoride and all other sorts of industrial chemical runoff. These contaminants are [...]

Thanksgiving and the End to Hospitality

ahewcn — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:43:53 +0000

Let’s face it, hospitality is dead. It seems like you can’t go anywhere these days without somebody complaining about how whatever it is that you were eating or you’re serving in your holiday meal conflicts with their social or moral stance on something.

Back in the day, when somebody went to another person’s house and they didn’t [...]

Halloween Myths: How We All Got Duped

ahewcn — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:42:54 +0000

People always assume that because my birthday is the day before Halloween that I automatically love it. But nothing could be further from the truth. Even as a child I couldn’t stand the idea of walking from door to door begging people for candy. I didn’t even really like candy all that much. I still don’t. [...]

Bacon Lovers Rejoice!

ahewcn — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 05:08:27 +0000

Recently, I saw a reporter ask the question, “Can you eat bacon and still be healthy?” If you’ve read anything I’ve been writing over the past 3 years, you’ll realize that my answer is a resounding YES! As a holistic nutritionist who believes in following the wisdom of the ancients and traditional eating when it comes [...]

A Mouse Ate My Soap!

ahewcn — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:55:01 +0000

It is often said that you shouldn’t eat something that animals won’t eat. Soybeans immediately come to mind in this category as animals instinctively won’t eat it unless it is ground up into food that they normally would eat. Many processed foods also fit this category. People often notice that if they have processed food like [...]

Healthy School Lunches

ahewcn — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 19:46:52 +0000

Every parent want their child to eat well, but for parents focused on nutrition, Uncrustables® and Lunchables® are not even an option. Luckily as time goes on, more and more parents and school systems are making it easier to feed their children the way the parents see fit.

Unfortunately, today even some seemingly innocuous lunches similar to what [...]