What is gluten? Gluten is what gives bread products its elasticity. It gives shape, strength, and texture to bread and other grain products. Avoiding gluten is important for people with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity,…
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If you are trying to eat more healthy foods this winter, I have a great recipe for you. Making a stuffing for beef or chicken or fish is a great dinner option because it adds…
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Reading EAT DIRT : Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It by Josh Axe was a necessity for me as someone who has struggled…
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On a very basic level, choosing what foods we eat are some of the most import decisions we make in a day . Too often, though, these decisions fall prey to other priorities — time, energy, availability, mood. .…
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I’ve been on a bit of a scavenger hunt lately for the majestic Crested Saguaros. It all started about a year ago when I realized that the misshapen form I saw on a distant hill…
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I’ve had the pleasure of working with the hilarious, uber-talented Miss Betty White. No one is more deserving than she of the sweet surprise and outpouring of affection she got, in celebration of her 93rd birthday, from the entire cast…
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“One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying. A persistent schizophrenia leaves so many of us tragically divided against ourselves. On…
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Humans are social beings. We crave human-to-human contact. Even as machines and technology take over more and more aspects of our lives, we try our best to humanize them. Think of our phones. We give…
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My goal yesterday, when I set out with my friend and hiking buddy Kathy, was to show her a secret hot spring in the middle of the desert (shared with me earlier by buddy Roxanne).…
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“…wonderfully funny, tragically heartbreaking, and deeply inspiring…” Ever heard of Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita? Neither had I, until last year when I encountered Ward ‘Scarman’ Foley on twitter. It was just before a Dewey’s Read-a-thon.…
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