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Announcing a Real Food Nutrition & Health Course
Monday, 8 Mar, 2010 – Food Renegade
Announcing a Real Food Nutrition & Health Course

In the world of homeschooling, the options for Nutrition & Health curricula are down right scary. Everything out there teaches the USDA Food Pyramid’s fear of fats and love of grains. Everything. Never mind that the grains are refined, extruded, denatured constructs of modern engineering. Never mind that the meats come from an inhumane, unsustainable, and unhealthy industrial food supply. Never mind that the dairy is all pasteurized, fortified, and full of antibiotics and pus. If you’re trying to teach your kids to love Real Food …


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WINNER plus $59.95 off COUPON
Monday, 1 Mar, 2010 – Food Renegade
WINNER plus $59.95 off COUPON

It’s always good to announce a winner. I feel like the bearer of such joy. It’s like Christmas. But another part of me is always a bit disappointed for all the people who didn’t win. That’s why I’m so thankful when a sponsor chooses to end a giveaway with a generous coupon. A good coupon…


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America Needs More “Brothals”
Tuesday, 23 Feb, 2010 – Food Renegade
America Needs More “Brothals”

In 1908, the Japanese invented monosodium glutamate to enhance food flavors, particularly meat-like flavors. Did you know we actually have glutamate receptors on our tongues? It’s the protein in food that the human body recognizes as meat. With the ability to hydrolize just about any protein to create free glutamic acid, we now had a way to create intense, …


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GIVEAWAY: Aqua Dome Water Purifier ($225 value!)
Monday, 22 Feb, 2010 – Food Renegade
GIVEAWAY: Aqua Dome Water Purifier ($225 value!)

Despite the studies released year after year demonstrating just how dangerous, toxic, and unhealthy our tap water can be, we still keep using it. After all, it’s federally-regulated. Surely that must mean it’s safe? Surely if our local tap water were unsafe, …


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Re-Cultivating Our Sense of Taste
Thursday, 18 Feb, 2010 – Food Renegade
Re-Cultivating Our Sense of Taste

If you haven’t already, don’t forget to enter this week’s Giveaway for a Stackable Sprout Garden ! I remember when Hot Pockets made me salivate. And ranch flavored Pringles potato chips. They don’t anymore. If you’re at all like me, you grew up eating the standard American diet. In her own small way, your mom probably tried to make “healthy” food choices. In my home, that looked like skim milk, low-fat salad dressings, and chicken — lots of chicken. But we still ate sandwiches starring American cheese and soybean oil mayonnaise, still poured…


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It’s the Junk Food Commercials
Thursday, 11 Feb, 2010 – Food Renegade
It’s the Junk Food Commercials

Remember all those studies that show a direct correlation between the number of hours kids watch TV and their weight? The conclusions of these studies all warn that too much television leads to an all too sedentary life, which leads to obesity. Well. Today a study was released which concluded that it’s not the hours of TV, but the number of junk food commercials ! Oh, those savvy junk food marketers. Did you know that by the time a child is…


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Just Say No To UHT Milk
Thursday, 4 Feb, 2010 – Food Renegade
Just Say No To UHT Milk

I’d been a raw milk drinker for years. Yet I hadn’t expected to respond so negatively to the glass of Horizon…


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