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#13: When Inflammation is Bad, and When It’s Good

Read the full transcript here. Inflammation is both an angel and a devil to your health. It has taken front and center stage because inflammation has a powerful hand in both healing our bodies and in creating chronic disease. Certain afflictions, such as bronchitis, asthma, allergies, arthritis, and auto-immune disorders, have an obvious inflammatory component.…

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8 Ways Cloves Heal Us & How to Use Them

Cloves are under-appreciated blossoms that heal many health ailments. When all my wisdom teeth were removed, I quickly discovered the agonizing pain of dry sockets. Vicodin left me with a hangover headache that was worse than the dry sockets. In desperate search for a solution, I remembered the old home remedy of using cloves for a…

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Immune-Boosting Tomatillo-Cilantro Dressing

Delicious and immune-boosting. This health-packed dressing took me less than ten minutes to prepare. Maybe less than five minutes. It was so fast that I think the clock actually moved backwards and I gained time. (more…)

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3-Ingredient Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Put sweet potatoes on your fast food plan. Every time you fire up your oven, put a few sweet potatoes in to bake for future snacks. I eat them like donuts. They are super easy, grab-and-run snacks that fill the tank. They're a hug for my mouth and belly, delivering heart-warming flavor and texture. At…

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Sweet-Potato Breakfast Burrito

In a desperate hunt for a ingredients for a perfect breakfast, I felt uninspired with the boring usuals: eggs, cheese, lettuce. H0-hum. Alas, the sweet potatoes from the night before caught my eye and helped drive me to this new culinary creation (for my tastebuds, anyway). The sweet potatoes and blue cheese perform brilliantly in…

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#4: Give Your Meal the Sparkle Appeal

People eat with their eyes first. Are your meals delighting the eyes, or could they use some sparkle and shine? Lean into this conversation, where professional Food Stylist, Rachel Sherwood, unpacks tricks and techniques for making a yummilicious meal. She will help your meals (and mine) evolve from ordinary grub to an eyeball-ishious extravaganza. In…

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Breakfast Nachos

I wake up hungry enough to eat an elephant's waist. On a good day, my breakfast might be a quesadilla, a piece of miso & bean toast,  a tamale, nachos, or any combination of these. Sometimes, I'm so nauseatingly hungry upon awakening that I mistake my pillow drool for an enticing sauce and I chew…

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