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Happy Valentine’s 2020! Valentine’s Day is here. And it’s time to learn and re-learn about Chocolate. I mean, it’s not just about binging and gaining weight, right? There has to be some kind of payoff better than that! Dr. Andrew Weil has this to say about the benefits: Chocolate’s Health Benefits: Blood pressure: Drinking … Read more
One of the things I keep hearing about is wheat and how you may be allergic to it AND how it makes you fat. So I am going to ask this question so I can do research: What about Wheat? I borrow info from 3 fat chicks – to explain what wheat is: “Wheat is … Read more
Super Bowl winner Tom Brady has a new book out and he talks about Night Shade Vegetables. He doesn’t eat them because he says they cause inflammation. I wasn’t really sure If there was research backing up him claim so, like always, I set out to investigate. The first place I went to is Diet vs … Read more
I like the fact that new studies come out regularly to prove that food is medicine. For the longest time, I followed Dr. Andrew Weil and I do believe he is on target in much of what he says, however after meeting him and his 20 foot tall ego, I tend to follow him less. … Read more
This past Saturday I was walking around the store Jimbos with 3 members of my meetup group (Oleg, Faye + Linda) talking about how to pick your fruits and veggies at their prime, what to look out for and then we got to show and tell: my favorite items to buy at Jimbos. If you … Read more
Hi! Here’s Day 2 of info from the UCSD Class – Healthy Healing Foods. It’s so important for me to teach that Food is Your Best Medicine. I do so on stage at the Fairgrounds in their kitchen up to 4 times in June for the last 3 years. The many blogs on this topic … Read more
Many people have been telling me lately that beans are not good for you. So I thought I would do this article on Beans? Good or not? The first site that comes up on the web is Reader’s Digest. They say that beans are high in Fiber, Protein, Vitamin B, Iron, Potassium and they’re low in … Read more
Chef Marian here bringing you the Inside Dirt: Tomatoes. Beans. Peanuts. This blog is DOUBLE the size of my normal blog, but I can’t find anything to cut here… so enjoy a longer one today! Recently, someone brought to my attention that a health guru told him not to eat tomatoes (something about the skin … Read more
I think almost everyone has gotten some kind of rash in their lives. No? Well, I’m here to give you this article: Skin Rashes: Food Helps. Sometimes sweat causes it. Sometimes it’s your body reacting to something going on inside. I always talk about the fact that ‘Food is Your Best Medicine’. So if you are one … Read more
One of my readers recently questioned my recommendation to add olive oil to tomatoes and lightly sauté them. He was concerned about heating the olive oil saying both it removes their vitamins and that liquid oils are not meant to be heated. Well, thank you Reader! I love that you read my blog AND it … Read more