Quality of Life: Do lifestyle choices matter?
Quality of Life How do your daily lifestyle choices impact your quality of life? In the activity for CARE Step 1, new CARE members are asked to define your ‘Health Destination’. An exercise to help you visualize what true health means for you – the reason you want to adhere to a therapeutic lifestyle. The [...]
How to Blanch Vegetables: A great solution for gardens at their peak and bulk buying produce
How to Blanch Vegetables A great solution for gardens at their peak and bulk buying produce. Guest Post by CARE Nutrition Intern, Jacqui Gabel Photography: Jacqui Gabel Problem: Gardens fully producing, overbuying, or just overflowing with vegetables! Tell me if this sounds familiar: I want to eat more vegetables daily, but I tend to [...]
Making Changes: Define Your True Reason for Health
Making Healthy Changes: Define Your True Reason for Health How My Love for Nutrition was Born Making long-term changes is hard. Knowing what to do to be healthy isn’t the biggest challenge that we face. It’s knowing how to do it – consistently – that’s the challenge. And knowing how to do it must first [...]
Differences Between Flax, Chia, and Hemp Seeds
CARE Member Question: "I have a question about chia, hemp, and flax seeds. What are the unique differences between these and what are the benefits ( pros and cons ) of each?" Answer: The main difference between flax, chia, and hemp seeds are the ratio of minerals, fatty acids, fiber, and phytonutrients that they contain. The [...]
How to Make Ghee (Clarified Butter)
The benefit: You can use butter at higher temps without burning. Ghee (clarified butter) is very (very) simple to make To start, I do want to recognize that in the purist definitions there are small nuances between clarified butter and tradition ghee. These exceptions are particularly important to Ayurvedic medicine and Asian religions that put [...]
Food as Medicine: Coconut Berry Puree Recipe
What does it mean to use Food as Medicine? Food as Medicine means that each food that you eat has a purpose. That purpose is to be an essential tool for your cells on projects like screening for cancer and repairing DNA. Nutrients are the tools that your cells need to complete projects. Projects like screening for cancer, [...]
Product Review: Black Bean Spaghetti – Pasta Becomes a Protein
Pasta Becomes a Protein! How Does Pasta Become a Protein? Make it from beans instead of grains. Explore Asian (R) bean-based pastas (black bean spaghetti, edamame spaghetti, and mung bean fettuccine) solve three common nutrition problems: Provides pasta lovers an alternative to carbohydrate-dense, blood sugar raising grain-based pastas Provides another wonderful plant-based protein source Provides [...]
To Get Support, Ask for Support
To Get Support, Ask for Support Asking the first question is always the hardest, but the spark you get back makes it worth it. In November, I made the decision to transition the Perfectly Produce web site and CARE program to a brand new learning management system. I knew going in that I had limited [...]
