kiwi

It’s no wonder Kiwis are the gems of the fruit world. They are packed with Vitamin C and loads of healing antioxidants. Did you know that kiwis also help regulate blood sugar (up or down) and helps bring you back to center (an amazing stress companion).  Kiwis also help strengthen the digestive system, and keep…

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seasonal variety

Back to basic human nature, we were designed to eat with the seasons. Bulk up on fruit in the summer, store fat and survive the more sparse giving season of winter. Repeat. But somehow we’ve gone off course, thanks to mass farming and our “must-have-now” society, and we have all things accessible at all times.…

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produce code 9

The price look-up (PLU) code system is used by most produce distributors but also allows consumers to be in-the-know to identify conventional and organic produce at the grocery store. Even though the defeat of Proposition 37 means that genetically engineered information will not be added to labels at this time, PLU codes do have the potential to…

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pasture raised egg

According to a 2007 Federal law, chickens labeled as Free Range (or Cage Free) can instead be crammed inside a warehouse and fed corn and soybeans as long as a door to a small patch of grass is left open for at least 5 minutes a day. Five minutes a day!?! Of course, crowding alone prevents…

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