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What Constitutes Organic food
Tweet What Constitutes Organic food and what foods are best eaten that way Yesterday I posted more reasons to buy and eat organic, but I didn’t explain what organic is and which foods benefit us most...
View ArticleSoak Your Nuts
Tweet I was given a heads up by a friend on an article about eating and soaking nuts grains, seeds and legumes before eating them. The following is a loose synopsis of the article Natures way No, not...
View ArticleTempeh?????
Tweet Just when I thought there was nothing left in the world that could surprise me, along comes Tempeh. What the heck? Tempeh is another soy product in patty form. Yes, it is fermented. Temp’h is...
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Soil and the Organic Garden
Tweet According to Wikipedia: Organic farming is the form of agriculture that relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost and biological pest control. Organic farming uses...
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Meat substitutes
Tweet Thanks to my brother for letting me know about this article from USA Today on veggie-friendly swap outs for meats Not your hippie friend’s meat substitute Not too long ago vegan friendly...
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RoundUp Weed Killer – What Biotech Pesticides Are Doing to Our Bodies
Tweet Just had this conversation with my family during a Easter get together. Hope we can make some changes before there is no turning back. – jughandle The following is a story from Rodale News...
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Organic Manifesto | Why We All Need an Organic Manifesto | Rodale News
Tweet Why We All Need an Organic Manifesto In her book Organic Manifesto, Maria Rodale explains why demanding organic is a much-needed solution to protect our health and heal our planet. The following...
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staph in meat | Bacteria-Infused Meat Found in Grocery Stores | Rodale News
Tweet This isn’t another push for you to buy organically grown meats, or is it? You be the judge. Just the one fact that chickens, pigs, cows, turkeys and other food source animals are injected on a...
View Articleorganic foods | The 20 Best Organic Foods | Rodale News
Tweet Why Organic Matters Walk into an average grocery store and you face a choice—47,000 choices of products, actually. And their labels advertise terms such as low fat, high fiber, free range, and...
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Kid Safe Alert: Sunny D
Tweet This blog is dedicated to helping you make the wise, healthy food choices. With that in mind, Jughandle’s Fat Farm can not recommend Sunny D made by Procter & Gamble for either you or your...
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FoodFacts.com
Tweet I want everyone to know about and use FoodFacts.com. It is my go to place for information on the food we eat here on the Fat Farm. Sign up for their Blog too. It is great. Great Information...
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Food Pairing
Tweet Food Pairing is a science into itself, for other than just your taste experience, but here I’m going to touch on a couple of pairings that may seem natural to us. – jughandle We’ve heard of...
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The Basic Rules of Food Combining
Tweet If you think about it, eating the proper foods together makes a lot of sense. Protein and starches are digested differently in the body so you wouldn’t want to eat them together because proteins...
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Olive Oil Scam Alert!
Tweet Some times it seems like we can’t win for losing. Thanks to Mittie and her sister Dede for finding out of all things, about a Olive Oil Scam. I’m still reading through all the information so...
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More Powerful Food Pairings
Tweet Tomatoes & Avocadoes Tomatoes are rich in lycopene, a pigment-rich antioxidant known as a carotenoid, which reduces cancer risk and cardiovascular disease. Fats make carotenoids more...
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Foods NOT to eat together
Tweet I am reproducing this article as I found it because I thought the information is so important for my readers to see. This is a great article about how to group your foods to be eaten to best aid...
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10 Suspect Causes of Autism
Tweet Funny, I’ve never thought of myself as an alarmist. You know, one of those guys that runs around shouting, “look out, look out”. I still don’t. I picture myself as someone that sees a...
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Trust?
Tweet Who do you trust? Who do you not trust? What is trust? Who should we trust? My big question is “Why do we trust that the food in our stores is healthy for us to eat, just because it is in a...
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Organic Shopping is catching on!
Tweet It’s working. You are spending over $30 billion per year to avoid toxins in your food and over half of that spending is for organic food. Other things to look for In addition to the organic...
View ArticleFoodFacts.com APP
Tweet Many of you know that we here at Jughandle’s Fat Farm have been working on a program that would allow you to scan a product’s bar code into your smart phone and have it tell you if it is a safe...
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Soursop – Cure for Cancer?
Tweet There have been emails and Facebook posts flying around recently suggesting that Soursop is “10000 times more powerful cancer killer than chemo”. I’m always interested in folk remedies and...
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Farmers’ Market Scams
Tweet This post is taken from a recent article from Organic Gardening.com So you’ve decided to try and eat organic vegetables? You might even think that buying produce at local Farmers’ markets would...
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What does Pesticide Residue Due to Us?
Tweet According to an article in The Daily Fix, Pesticides do at least 7 crazy things to our bodies: I am reproducing the following article with out permission because I think this is a VERY important...
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Shades of Gray
Tweet We live in a world of shades of gray and we are taught that life is black and white, right or wrong, good and bad, legal or illegal. That’s not a question, it is a statement of fact. A paradox...
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Consumer ALERT – Product Recall
Tweet This is a public service announcement from the Fat Farm because I know some of you believe in “supplements”. To clarify, Jughandle’s Fat Farm does not believe that we need to supplement our...
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More about SUGAR
Tweet As we’ve discussed before, sugar is the bane of our existence. Can’t live with it, can’t live with out it. Since almost everything either has sugar in it or breaks down in our body...
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Best Foods to Eat in January
Tweet This is an article I am copying for your reading pleasure directly from Organic Gardening.com, written by Emily Main. This article is well written and is good advice. It should be passed on to...
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Canary in the Vegetable patch
Tweet You may be familiar with the use of a Canary to warn miners in coal mines when toxic levels of gas or the lack of O2 was imminent. The bird would sing it’s happy song until a problem was present...
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Best Food To Eat In Winter
Tweet Winter is a time to refit. To assess the foundation and structure of our body and make adjustments if necessary. The first and most important thing to look at is our diet. If you are the type...
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Your Drinking Water
Tweet This blog and many many others have posted various warnings about our drinking water. They are REAL, people! This country may have the best drinking water in the world, but that doesn’t mean it...
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More on Water
Tweet Have you just realized that you need to drink more water? Are you one of those walking around with a bottle of water to keep hydrated? Sorry to inform you, but you are behind the times, and are...
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BPA is the Hazard we Face Everyday
Tweet Never heard of BPA? I just spent 3 days at a local hospital and even though they took great care of me, it was not an enjoyable experience. If you are in the baby boomer age group, as I am, you...
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Sea Turtles from a Professional Point of View
Tweet Sea Turtles and amphibians, like frogs have been a topic on this blog more than once. Just as the miners once carried birds into the mines with them to forewarn of dangerous conditions we can be...
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Soft Drink Side Effects
Tweet Soda, pop, soft drinks, carbonated beverages will mess you up! You must think that I only write about the evil side of foods. You might be right. I promise that I’ll try to find better stuff...
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Healthy Drinks
Tweet As a rebuttal to yesterday’s post about how bad Soda is for us, I promised to post some good news. Well, its good news, bad news. Good news is there are good, healthy drinks to be had, but the...
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Bee Deaths Affect Our Crops
Tweet Our Bees are dying at an alarming rate. Actually dying is the wrong word to use. The Bees are vanishing, like something out of a science fiction movie. If you haven’t heard about this problem...
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Neutral pH is the sum of all things Healthy
Tweet Neutral pH I’ve been exploring the healthy life style for several years now. Until now I’ve mostly learned what NOT to do. You know, the same things that religion teaches. Don’t do these 10...
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How to Test Your pH
Tweet Snake Oil My biggest concern in discussing this topic is to be taken seriously. When a health method isn’t totally embraced by the traditional health community, it seems as though the snake oil...
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Kidney Stones
Tweet Some of you are aware that I have been suffering from kidney stones for the last 2 years. I also have a birth defect where I only have one functioning kidney. When I get a stone that achieves...
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The Elephant In The Room
Tweet The elephant in the room The elephant. Ever been in a room full of people and everyone there knows they have a “big” something to talk about but no one wants to be “that guy” who first mentions...
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Cross Shrimp Off Your Party List
Tweet I just read a disturbing report titled “5 Reasons To Never Eat Shrimp Again” From Prevention Mag’s blog. Shrimping has changed Mostly gone are the days of Bubba Gump’s shimp boats with nets....
View ArticleTryptophan – the sleepy turkey drug?
Tweet Eat Turkey, take a nap, right? Blame it on the tryptophan in the turkey and stick your hand in your pants and fall asleep in front of the TV while the wife cleans the house and does the dishes....
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Sugar
TweetI’ve touched on sugar, mostly brown sugar, in the past “Pantry 101 – Baking and Spices 6-12” but we got a question from Debbie in California asking what is the difference between cane sugar,...
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Diabetes
TweetDiabetes – if you are reading this rant you more than likely either have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, know someone close to you who does, or have been diagnosed as “pre-diabetes” by your doctor. My...
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Diets or “A diet that makes sense”
TweetI think we’ve discussed before that weird diets don’t work. Sure, you might lose 10 or 15 lbs on the cabbage diet, then wham, a plateau and you’re stuck. That’s because your body adjusts to your...
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Is High-fructose Corn Syrup Mad Science? – Jughandle’s Fat Farm
TweetHigh-Fructose Corn Syrup, Aka: HFCS. Is the Devil, Right? I’m a huge opponent of high-fructose corn syrup otherwise known as HFCS. That said, I will do my best to remain neutral and explain why....
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Foods that raise your metabolism – Jughandle’s Fat Farm
TweetFoods that raise your metabolism. These are the Holy Grail of dieting and losing weight. My wife used to eat almost as much as I do but she weighs 122 and I weigh 300 lbs. The difference is...
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Baking Soda vs Baking Powder, what’s the difference – Jughandle’s Fat Farm
TweetBaking Soda vs Baking Powder, what’s the difference? When should we use one over the other? Are there any other uses for either, than baking or cooking? If you are a serious cook, you should be...
View ArticleGout – Not just a Kings affliction any more
TweetIf you look up images of Gout on Google (don’t), you will thank me for not posting one here. Trust me it is bad enough suffering through the pain of without seeing pictures of how bad it can get....
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Let’s get started Living better – Recipe of the Day Enclosed
TweetAlright Fat Farmers, let’s get started living better by getting all the hoopla out of the way and start becoming more healthy today. We’re going to start slowly, by promising to eliminate all...
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