One more pre-teen girl has died after receiving the Gardisil vaccine, an unnecessary and dangerous vaccine that is being pushed on parents of adolescents as an imperative safeguard for your child’s health.
What frustrates me the most is how unnecessary it is to vaccinate a population against a disease that can be easily avoided through expectations of condom use.
Knowledge is power.
There’s an unprecedented chance to meet, learn from and engage with 75 Colorado authors – New York Times bestsellers, Pulitzer Prize winners, newspaper columnists and, not least, Colorado author-in-chief John Hickenlooper at the first Colorado Book Festival.
The writers will discuss their book adventures in true crime, sports, poetry, photography, fiction, history, getting published and more. Prize drawings, too.
September 10, 2016. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at the main Denver Public Library. Free.
Join me! I will be moderating a panel of four fabulous cookbook authors at 2:45 pm and the topic is: “Get Cooking! Writing, Publishing, and Marketing Cookbooks”. The schedule can be found on the Colorado Authors’ League website.
I used to love using spray-cans of cooking oils because they were so easy and convenient, and they spread the oil so evenly over the surface. In fact, during the years I was developing recipes for my cookbook I couldn’t have imagined cooking without an aerosol spray can of cooking oil with which to lubricate my cookware.
But then I discovered through the MRT results that my son is very sensitive to soy lecithin, an emulsifier made from the residue of soy sauce manufacturing. Particularly when that soy lecithin is applied through a cooking spray. Even the smallest bit of oil like the amount that rubs onto a rice krispie treat that has cooled in a pan sprayed with an aerosol can of cooking oil would be enough to make him dizzy and nauseated.
Soy lecithin makes things slippery and is added to compounds including rocket fuel and fracking liquid. Although lecithin occurs naturally in eggs and corn, the soy lecithin is an additive that is added to our foods. Many who are sensitive to soy lecithin don’t have a problem with natural sources of lecithins. Unfortunately, soy lecithin may not be the only additive in that cooking spray either.
So I stopped using an aerosol can of spray and tried using a refillable pump to spray oil into Dutch ovens for my Glorious One-Pot Meals. Alas, the pumps seem to clog and break frequently for me, and they do not create an even sheen of oil. I found the pumps so unsatisfying that I abandoned the idea of spraying oil altogether and resigned myself to simply wiping the oil into the pot before cooking.
Then today I learned that Chosen Foods has come out with a series of additive-free cooking sprays and I am so excited to share the news that I’m writing about them before I’ve even tried one! Let me know if you try it out!
Reader question: Is the La Crueset the only dutch oven you recommend? ~Jean S., Seattle, WA
Hi Jean,
Thanks for writing! The only requirements for Dutch ovens when making Glorious One-Pot Meals are:
Both seasoned cast iron and enameled cast iron Dutch ovens work well for Glorious One-Pot Meals, and the brand does not matter.
Looking at my own shelves of cast iron Dutch ovens, I can count five brands that all make perfect Glorious One-Pot Meals.
Happy cooking!
Although the majority of industry-funded studies show that artificial sweeteners have no effect on the body, more than 90% of independent studies show that artificial sweeteners like sucralose (Splenda) and aspartame (Equal) affect the microbiome and lead to inflammatory bowel problems as well as double the risk of metabolic issues like diabetes.
And, contrary to their stated goal, using artificial sweeteners will not lead to weight loss. Just one diet soda has enough negative influence on the microbiome to cause inflammation! Since obesity is now categorized as “excessive inflammation”, we can understand why non-nutritive sweeteners will not help us lose weight.
Luckily, we can start to heal our gut microbiome as soon as we cut out all artificial sweeteners, so stay away from those diet sodas!
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