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Lessons From History

Lessons From History: Sugar is not an Essential

by KimiHarris on October 5, 2009

For those of us doing the Sugar Free Challenge this week, we can feel like we are giving up a big part of our diets. It limits us. But we need to understand that white sugar is a new phenomenon. Leaving out white sugar and white flour is hardly extraordinary. Then again, it may [...]

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Lessons from History: Is Hay Just For Horses?

by KimiHarris on September 11, 2009

I was recently both amused and challenged by the perspective of a figure in history from the Russian food culture. Natalia Borisovna Nordman-Severova.
She lived from 1863- 1914 and she advocated and argued for the liberation of servants and housewives from excessive labor, and the abolition of world hunger. She certainly wasn’t going to [...]

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Lessons from History: Food is Essential

by KimiHarris on August 25, 2009

Sometimes we need to be reminded of the obvious, so today I would like to remind myself, and you all of an obvious fact of life. Food is valuable. Not only is it of great worth, but it is essential.
Essential:
1. necessary: of the highest importance for achieving something
Food is essential because it is of the [...]

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Some of you know a little of my  history. I’ve had to deal with some (minor) health issues, which pushed me the rest of the way into “health” food. While my own health issues have been minor (compared to cancer), they have affected my everyday life as one of them has been adrenal fatigue. When [...]

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