Last year, a private client of mine gave me the opportunity to look more closely at the best multivitamins. She wanted to know if she should be taking a multivitamin, and if she should be giving one to her children. Of course, she also wanted to know which brands make the best multivitamins. I shared my opinion with the Gimme readership back then, and now am pleased to be able to update you guys.
Recipes & Healthy Eating
Healthy Cereal Guide
Overall Best Healthy CerealFood for Life Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Grain Crunchy Cereal packs the most nutritional bang per spoonful. (Read more about this brand under Good Stuff below.)[amazon asin=B000LKTMLM&template=Add To Cart]As a child of the 50’s, I ate cold cereal for breakfast on most mornings. We could help ourselves and my mom was free to do other chores.My father
The Healthiest Organic Wine We’ve Found
My mom and I are into wine, whereas my dad and husband are the beer guys. And because we research everything we are into, we of course wanted to find the healthiest organic wine to justify our habit!(During my mom’s research for the healthiest wine, she came across info about a company in California that scours the globe for the very best organic wine--more on them below.) What’s Wrong with
Meep’s Healthy Cranberry Sauce with Maple Syrup & Chia Seeds
Growing up, my mom did most of the cooking in our exceedingly health-conscious kitchen.At Thanksgiving, she delegated a share of the labor--grate this daikon radish, rinse these aduki beans, scrub this large hubbard squash that will serve as our turkey, roll out this cardboard-like pie crust made of sprouted spelt and ghee--but most of the recipes were her own.One exception, and one of my
Thanksgiving Maple Yams Recipe
By Suzanne ("Nana")Thanksgiving is one of my favorites holidays.What better way to spend a day than cooking and eating with loved ones?Full disclosure: I always buy one bottle of expensive French champagne, which makes the day all the more enjoyable!For many years, our Thanksgiving meals did not include turkey. My vegetarian phase during the ‘80s and ‘90s inspired us to create
Essential Nutrients During Pregnancy
All medical experts emphasize that humans, including pregnant and lactating women, are best able to obtain our essential nutrients through our diets.So before even thinking about which prenatal vitamins are the best, women should familiarize themselves with which foods provide the highest levels of the most essential pregnancy nutrients. What Are the Most Essential Pregnancy Nutrients? I’ve
October: Easy Cleanse for Busy Moms
In January of 2018, instead of making the usual resolutions that we’ve given up on by the end of the month, we decided to break it up by dividing some big goals into manageable chunks.Each month, we invite you to overhaul one aspect of your life to reduce toxins, improve health, and increase your peace of mind. Our promise is that these changes will be easy to implement, helping you avoid
Pesticides in Organic Oatmeal & Oat Products
Are you worried about pesticides in organic oatmeal? We have been fielding a lot of questions about Roundup in oat products since news of EWG's study on glyphosate broke the other day.The thing that's troubling my readers most is the headline that glyphosate was found in some of the organic product samples tested. I'm not worried about this, and I don't think you should be either. Why I'm Not
4 Simple Ways to Reduce Pesticides in Your Diet (and Home)
We all grew up hearing that we should “eat more fruits and veggies.” Now, as parents, we often go to great lengths to get a “rainbow of color” into our kids’ diets.Most of us struggle with this—when it comes to vegetables, my kids will only consistently eat broccoli and asparagus, so it’s hardly a rainbow!As many of you know, there is a dark side to fruits and vegetables.Conventionally
Healthy Olive Oil Guide
“…It’s not only wine that sings Olive oil sings too It lives in us with its ripe light And among the good things of the earth I set apart Olive oil…” -Pablo Neruda- How to Pick the Healthiest Olive Oil For decades we’ve known about the benefits of the “Mediterranean diet" (fresh fruits and veggies, fish, whole grains, red wine, and olive oil). Modern science tells us that of those foods,
