We are big time rice lovers in the VKlok household. Rice with butter or ghee and always with a pinch of salt; sometimes with broccoli an...

This year we are resting our garden, a year of jubilee of sorts. The area we use to grow our goods has been worked, and pushed, and tilled, ...

Today my girls decided not to sleep. At all. Translation, in mamma world that means "today my girls decided to torture me". Oka...

For many the word "detoxification" conjures up images of deprivation, immediate feelings of hunger and irritability, panic, and ...

I want to break for a minute from my standard recipe-driven posts and talk about a side of life that is far too often misconstrued. It...

This post is long overdue and for that I am sincerely sorry [well, for that and the lack of photos of this one]. My hope, upon reading thi...

This morning happens to be one of those rare times when the baby sleeps in [albeit probably because she was up a lot last night, but stil...

Whenever someone mentions "less meat" I have this tendency to go into what I call "protein panic". That's right, i...

I was recently introduced to this book by my friend Kim and have since used it just about every day. I don't think I can recommend ...

Okay, not really. But maybe water should be held on the same pedestal as dinner. I was planning to do a post on water when I noticed that ...

Fatigue, skin problems, mucus and toxic build-up, food and other sensitivities, disease. What do these all have in common? Outside of the ...

If you're interested in purchasing more organic produce but don't know where to start or are on a tight budget, here is a good place...

Right now I am reading Jonny Bowden's The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth . Throughout the book Jonny has asked some of the top experts in...

Check out these articles on taxing junk food: http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-12-01-obesity-edit_x.htm\ http://www.ask....

Right now I'm reading What to Eat by Luise Light. It has been an interesting book becuase Luise worked for the USDA while a new pyramid ...

Notes from Staying Healthy with Nutrition (by Elson Haas): "The poor nations...are literally starving from deficiency diseases while we...