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Heavy Metals in Chocolate: How to Eat This Superfood Safely
Rich in polyphenols, dark chocolate deserves its “superfood” designation, but many of us are worried about the recent Consumer Reports that highlights the high levels of certain heavy metals in chocolate. I turned to Dr. Michael Hopkins to help me sort through the alarming headlines–and to see if there is a way to enjoy chocolate safely!
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Healthy Jarred Baby Food Guide
What is the best jarred baby food in 2022? I didn’t find any Best Stuff, but there’s plenty of Good Stuff–and you’ll want to check out the Okay Stuff and Sneaky Stuff–there are some surprises in there! I also offer some information about what you should and should not freak out about when it comes to heavy metal contamination in baby foods.
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Healthiest Fruit Popsicles Guide
Making your own will result in the very healthiest fruit popsicles, especially since every store-bought one comes in plastic. Sometimes it makes sense to buy fruit pops to have on hand in the summer. Read on for our picks for the healthiest fruit popsicles you can find in a grocery store.
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Healthy Store Bought Oat Milk Guide
Our Oat Milk Guide will help you find the best store-bought oat milk. I prefer oat milk over many plant-based milks. The biggest problem with oat milk is that it typically has more carbohydrates and sugars than other plant-based milks.
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Baby Food Pouch Guide
Baby food pouches are much easier to handle than jars of food, and both of my kids enjoyed them well into their preschool years. In addition, pouched baby food is probably more nutritious than jarred foods (more on this below).
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Healthy Almond Milk Guide
1. Three Trees / 2. Malk / 3. New Barn Plant-based milks have become very popular in recent years. They aren’t new, however. When I began to learn about healthy eating back in the 1970’s, soy milk and rice milk were available at health food stores. Now I go to the store and find everything […]
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Healthy Cow Milk Shopping Guide
1. Organic Valley Grassmilk / 2. Maple Hill / 3. Natural By Nature / 4. Byrne Hollow Farm 100% Grassfed Milk from dairy cows has been a part of the human diet for almost 10,000 years. Cow milk provides protein, fat, calcium, and vitamin D. Some medical experts believe that milk should be the main […]
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Healthy Cereal Guide
1. Ezekiel 4:9 / 2. Butterfly Bakery of Vermont / 3. Cascadian Farms Purely O’s / 4. Arrowhead Mills / 5. Barbara’s Brown Rice Crisps Skip to: Overall Best Healthy Cereal Food for Life Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Grain Crunchy Cereal packs the most nutritional bang per spoonful. (Read more about this brand under Good Stuff […]
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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- Skip to: How to Pick the Healthiest Olive Oil For decades we’ve known about the benefits of the “Mediterranean diet” (fresh fruits […]
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Healthy Yogurt Guide
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure page. Skip to: When we polled our readers on which food they wanted us to review next, yogurt was the winner (olive oil was a close second, and we will be reviewing that in the fall). Finally, after more than a month of researching and […]