A couple weeks ago, The Bird Cage asked me for advice about protein powders. Challenge accepted! (And my apologies for being so tardy with this blog post. I had hoped to have it published early last week). I’ve written about protein powders a few times before: – Vegan Sources of Protein – Calcium and Protein [...]
Acupuncture has a wide range of benefits. I’ve seen first-hand what acupuncture can do at the vet clinic that I work at, Natural Healing Veterinary Care. It can treat many health conditions and vastly improve quality of life. Anyone can benefit from getting some acupuncture. Acupuncturists can be expensive to visit, but now Heavenly Products [...]
Yoga is an amazing way to relax the mind and stretch and tone the muscles. In many ways it can be equally as challenging as an activity such as boot camp or kickboxing, because yoga challenges you to truly focus and balance the mind and the body. I’ve flirted with many different forms of exercise [...]
I’ve got a couple of reviews for you today! The companies are unrelated but seeing as they are both skin care products, I figured I’d write about them both in the same blog post. Juni by Xango This soap is marketed as a vegan gentle body bar. It has a very light, pleasant scent, and [...]
Chips, popcorn, and other salty snack foods are really tough to stop eating. I think that most of us have cravings for these foods at least some of the time. I certainly have a weakness for salty snacks! Enter Popchips. What can I say about Popchips? The first time I tried them, I was in [...]
Thank you for all of your good wishes for the conference this past weekend! It went beautifully. Nearly 40 people showed up to our session on reading food labels, so that was fantastic. And this afternoon, a television crew is coming to my condo to film Nicole and I for The Food Label Movement! Exciting [...]
Is your dish liquid environmentally-friendly? How about human-friendly? Does it clean your dishes well? Tropical Traditions recently sent me a gigantic 1 gallon jug of their Household Traditions Dish Liquid. And let me tell you, this stuff is awesome! I haven’t noticed any difference in comparison to the usual eco-friendly dish liquid that I use, [...]
Becoming a Certified Holistic Nutritionist I’m happy to announce that as of yesterday, I am halfway to my goal of raising enough money to pay for the courses that will lead to my degree as a Certified Holistic Nutritionist! I’d also like to let you all know that all proceeds from the selling of my [...]
Tropical Traditions sent me a jar of their Antioxidant Natural Greens powder, a berry-flavoured supplement which includes ingredients such as milk thistle, kelp, beet, aloe vera, flax, chlorella, spirulina, alfalfa, spinach, and several different dairy-free probiotics. The added ingredients that weren’t there for health purposes include: stevia, citric acid, natural flavor (no MSG), cinnamon powder [...]
A review of Tropical Traditions hulled millet: a delicious, gluten-free whole grain!
