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How to Make a Genuine Healthy and Organic Philadelphia Cheesesteak

How to Make a Genuine Healthy and Organic Philadelphia Cheesesteak

Sometimes when I travel, everything goes so smoothly that it feels like a miracle of modern transportation. Other times, everything goes so horribly wrong that I have to cry and comfort myself with an airport cheesesteak, which makes me cry even more because mine at home are so much better. Such was the case recently. […]

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Jillian Michaels: Our Food System Is Set Up to Fail

Jillian Michaels: Our Food System Is Set Up to Fail

By guest blogger and leading health-and-wellness expert Jillian Michaels Here’s a statistic for you: One dollar will buy you 1,200 calories of processed garbage that will likely make you fat or sick, or both. Conversely, that same buck will only nab you 250 calories of healthy food (fruits, vegetables, organic meat, whole grains) that can […]

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Disney Goes Organic! (In My Dreams)

Disney Goes Organic! (In My Dreams)

After three kids, I finally got the timing right for going to Disney. Lucia, age 3½, is at the perfect age. She is right smack in the middle of her Princess phase, and got to revel in extreme princess-ness at Disney. She even got a Snow White dress and wore it all day (favorite moment […]

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Best in Show at the Natural Products Expo

Best in Show at the Natural Products Expo

Late last week I took my 12-year-old daughter Eve to the Natural Products Expo West trade show, in Anaheim, California, for the first time. Suddenly, she realized I have a really cool job. We didn’t have time to see everything, since I was mainly there to be part of a panel sponsored by Nature’s Path, […]

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French Toast—an Organic Breakfast Pleasure

French Toast—an Organic Breakfast Pleasure

It’s time for a break from my relentless “manifesto-ing.” It’s time for breakfast! After all, it’s hard to keep thinking big, hard thoughts without good food in your belly. My 3-year-old always asks for French toast with “makeup syrup.” That’s maple syrup to the rest of us. As I was making it for us this […]

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Eat Organic on a Budget—It Can Be Done!

Eat Organic on a Budget—It Can Be Done!

Let’s start with full disclosure: I am not by nature a frugal shopper, nor a shopper on a budget. In fact, I’ve been known to make sales people gawk at me when my bill gets tallied (like when I drive an hour to the closest Whole Foods with a cooler in the back of my […]

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