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Milk Kefir: What It Is & How to Brew It

October 13, 2009 By jenny 51 Comments

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Milk kefir is, to put it lightly, an acquired taste. Sour and pungent, milk kefir is a cultured dairy food originally from the Caucuses – the region where Europe meets Asia. There it has been traditionally heralded as an elixer of long life and health. It seems that there’s wisdom in this [...]

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Prebiotics & Probiotics

August 14, 2009 By jenny 15 Comments

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Prebiotics and probiotics represent essential aspects of a wholesome, nourishing diet. Though not the same, prebiotics and probiotics complement one another and work together to improve overall health and wellness. Simplistically, a prebiotic promotes the proliferation of beneficial bacteria while probiotics contain live beneficial bacteria that help to recolonize your intenstinal flora. [...]

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Water Kefir: A Quick Tutorial

August 11, 2009 By jenny 134 Comments

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Has a lost love of soda pop been nagging at you too long? We’ve developed a love of water kefir or tibicos in our home. A fermented beverage teeming with beneficial bacteria, it’s easily flavored, remarkably simple to prepare and more palatable than kombucha, offering a pleasant alternative to commercial sodas. Similar [...]

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Giveaway: Cultures for Health

April 2, 2009 By jenny

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In the past few weeks, I’ve enjoyed a little treat: fresh, homemade matsoni courtesy of a new company Cultures for Health. Matsoni is a nice tart yogurt hailing from Georgia and was thought to convey long life. Matsoni is also a room-temperature yogurt that cultures well with minimal effort. For those of you [...]

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Fat Soluble Vitamins: Vitamins A, D, E & K

April 1, 2009 By jenny 16 Comments

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Fat Soluble Vitamins Fat soluble vitamins are critical to health and wellness–particularly reproductive health and wellness. Unfortunately, adequate intake of fat soluble vitamins is sorely lacking among modern peoples–especially by comparison to traditional societies. Average intake of fat soluble vitamins like vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E and vitamin K is inadequate at best [...]

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