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Vegetable Rice Bowl with Miso Dressing
This rice bowl recipe may be used as a template for making rice bowls. You can vary the toppings as desired. I like azuki beans because they are small, flavorful, and easy to digest. The butternut squash goes really well with the rice and the miso dressing (I use the pre-cut squash found in most [...]
Sesame-Ginger Dipping Sauce
This sauce is fabulous with crudités, tofu, or anything for that matter. Serve as an appetizer at your next dinner party. Your guests will love it. I often double the recipe. Prep Time: 15 minutes Yields: about 1 cup Ingredients: 5 teaspoons chopped, peeled fresh ginger 1/4 cup tahini (sesame seed paste) 5 teaspoons low [...]
What Eating Too Much Sugar Does to Your Brain
We’re learning more and more these days that what we eat affects how we think. Our brains don’t work well if we don’t eat well. And consuming added sugar, the kind of sugar found in processed foods and drinks, reduces a very important chemical in our brain. Without this chemical “our brains can’t form new [...]
Maintaining Your Body’s Acid/Alkaline Balance
One of our major nutritional goals for optimum health should be maintaining a proper acid/alkaline balance. It is important that our diet is slightly more alkaline-forming than acid as this is the environment which is most conducive to health and the body’s natural repair process. We are talking about the acid or alkaline ash that [...]