tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:38:21 +0000gourmetstaplesconvenienceenergy barsphilosophysnacksteanewsrecipessupplementsbeveragedetoxexercisejuiceto live bywhy organichealth food news, reviews, and discussion without compromisehttp://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)Blogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-1678109498579425180Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:36:00 +00002008-09-13T13:49:05.659-05:00philosophyWhen I use the word 'society' I mean that which reinforces our culture. By 'culture' I, of course, mean the collective body of expectations society whispers into our ears from the cradle to the grave. This is all made irrelevant by many alternate definitions of these meaningless words so this paragraph seems to be a waste of time.  But why do we assume time is a commodity capable of being wasted?http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/09/assuming-unreachable.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-1509339758260166070Sat, 31 May 2008 17:41:00 +00002008-05-31T14:05:47.327-05:00exerciseI almost died the other day. This happened while I was on my way to work. You see, I've decided to give up the car indefinitely. I ride a bicycle to work every day. Therefore, my daily commute requires me to fill up with calories instead of gas (which is still expensive as the price of food has risen nearly in tandem with gas). But it is still brilliantly cheap to commute under my own power. No http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/05/suburbia-where-tragedy-and-hope-meet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-1916690283478838864Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:50:00 +00002008-04-03T17:56:29.463-05:00gourmetThe word 'anti-oxidant' is thrown around a lot these days. But it isn't so much hype as semi-recent revelation. Anti-oxidants are the janitors of our bodies. They neutralize free radicals -- harmful molecules which can destroy cells and DNA. Getting enough anti-oxidants is quite important for our health.So, the world of chocolate lovers sigh with collective relief after each new study comes out http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/04/choclatea-from-smile-chocolatiers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-8545931088199401102Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:37:00 +00002008-03-31T23:29:53.088-05:00staplesThere's a time and place for everything. To extrapolate from this adage, there is most assuredly a product and taste for everyone. In the health food world of commodities the consumer is presented with a marvelously huge selection. But as one (especially one who is new to health food) soon realizes, there are a limited number of staples which must be continually purchased to satisfy anticipated http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/fruit-nuts-from-nuts-online.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-5832884090910782517Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:40:00 +00002008-03-30T16:13:52.427-05:00to live byThere is this popular saying used to brush off the idea that what one eats might never be acceptable. It goes like this: 'Everything in moderation.' This pithy, clever expression contains much wisdom, and indeed proves a safe way to avoid harm. But there are some things I do not believe the body should be subject to -- even in moderation. To this end, I have compiled a short list of foods I http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/stop-eating-these-four-foods-for-better.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-2109662919392456839Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:21:00 +00002008-03-29T12:34:06.733-05:00beverageMilk is from mammals, or so I thought. I was under the impression milk had to be milked from an animal. If you are like me, the revelation of an alternative to this simple idea will rock the foundations of everything you used to know as truth (or not).The soy industry produces the majority of these 'alternatives to dairy' but they are also made of rice, almond and, so it seems, hemp. What http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/living-harvest-brand-hempmilk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-6606036678964284507Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:30:00 +00002008-03-26T20:52:50.910-05:00why organicWhile I do not whole-heartedly believe in the perfect consumer democracy whereby the consumers vote with their dollars to enact change, I do think it is wise to use our increasingly worthless dollars to buy organic products.If an average citizen (or more appropriately a 'consumer' these days) wanted to plant a garden s/he would probably need to acquire seeds. The seeds could be a) bought from a http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/reason-253-to-buy-organic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-1909838232890327528Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:38:00 +00002008-03-25T13:05:22.953-05:00teaAfter a long time of changing diets and lifestyles, reading and experimenting there are a few basic guidelines I seem to have rested on. Perhaps most adamantly I try to control my blood sugar and insulin levels by limiting sugar and grains and by cardiovascular and weight training. Next, I try to create a balanced ratio (for my personal metabolic type) of omega 3 to 6 fats, raw to cooked food andhttp://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/adagio-brand-anteadote-tea.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-7339648725056433242Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:59:00 +00002008-03-25T13:05:52.874-05:00juiceThe first thing I had to find out before writing this review was the origin of the name. It seems the name is part marketing-genius and part coincidence. The fruit, which is enormously popular in China and has been grown there for over 2,000 years, is called yang-mei. A garden products importer from Indiana, Mr. Stenftenagel, thought the name sounded a bit like 'yummy' and as a result had the http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/yumberry-brand-juices-by-frtzzo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-5909054258845796074Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:12:00 +00002008-03-22T18:46:21.420-05:00recipesHere is a simple smoothie recipe to get you started in the morning, recharged after a long day or full when a meal fails to satiate the daemons within the belly who perpetually demand more food. (In the case of the latter one might also wish to entertain the idea that one has some sort of parasite or worm and take appropriate action.) The majority of the time I make this smoothie to satiate the http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/simple-smoothie-recipe-from-health-food.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-335846125088538993Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:01:00 +00002008-03-22T18:09:20.302-05:00convenienceThese quick and easy dishes are produced, distributed, sold and consumed at a dizzying pace. The problem I have with them are the 12,000-ingredient lists full of words only the brightest among us can pronounce. It seems these products are processed, full of preservatives, artificial flavors and artificial colorings -- all in the name of "quick and easy." It is therefore a comfort to find another http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/annie-chuns-pad-thai-rice-noodles-sauce_22.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-7013361703515357722Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:32:00 +00002008-03-20T20:05:43.068-05:00newsWell it's settled, we can bust out the agave nectar and chug like its y2k+1. The heated debate over whether organic food is healthier than conventional food has been concluded yet again. This is just mind-boggling; The Organic Center creates a study to study past studies. This "study to rule them all" shows once and for all there is enough scientific evidence to say organic is better (this after http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/conclusion-of-concluded-debate-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-2621023963866293549Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:50:00 +00002008-03-17T21:37:12.894-05:00staplesSo I've been convinced for a while of the negative health effects of grain. It has been said and shown the effect of most grain is identical to sugar in the body; upon ingestion insulin levels spike in order to control the high blood sugar. Also, as much as 90% of humans might be allergic to wheat to some degree, and symptoms are often wrongly attributed to other causes. But grains are something http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/wasa-multi-grain-crispbread.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-7337086877035590922Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:47:00 +00002008-03-15T13:07:44.042-05:00snacksNormally spicy things repel me. I just didn't grow up eating anything spicy. On the rare occasions something spicy would end up on my plate I would take a bite and reel in pain exclaiming, "Sick! You people are sick! Masochists! Who would purposefully inflict pain upon themselves in this aweful way!?" But lately spicy has added a whole new twist to the food I love so much. It adds new depth to http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/eden-organic-spicy-pumpkin-seeds.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-9040898928714668583Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:21:00 +00002008-03-14T12:52:35.792-05:00gourmetI feel more strongly about this cheese than I do most other things in my life. I am willing to risk sacrilege on behalf of Ekte Geifost and Gjetost by Tine. So tightly bound in the vice-like grip of the mere taste-memory of the cheese, I would do terrible and illegal things to get more. It is a unique brown cheese from Norway, where the goats and cows live in paradise and drink 5 martini's a day.http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/gjetost-ski-queen-by-tine-cheese-worthy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-7405599151090591625Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:56:00 +00002008-03-14T12:50:55.680-05:00convenienceMuch can be said about pizza. The idea came from Italy where Roma tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and spinach represented the red, white and green of the Italian flag. Dominoes makes 1,000,000 pies a night in the US. And perhaps no other single food has caused so many heart attacks. Eden Organic Pizza Pasta Sauce is great for making a healthier home-made pizza pie.The other day I made a pizza by http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/eden-organic-pasta-pizza-sauce.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-6655084897395019937Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:16:00 +00002008-03-04T00:35:59.947-06:00recipesThis recipe is great. Spinach is one of those precious foods that shouldn't really be heated, but is there any other way to make a spinach omelet? As they say: you have to wilt a few spinach leaves to make a spinach omelet.The spinach retains something of value even when heated, to be sure. Coconut is a robust oil and maintains its many healthy qualities even when heated. This recipe was taken http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/03/4-egg-spinach-french-omelet-recipe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-1797931846441846142Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:40:00 +00002008-02-29T18:35:31.876-06:00staplesNever doubt the power of coconut oil. It is being quickly rediscovered to be among the healthiest oil we can make use of, period. It is the only oil we should use for cooking because it alone withstands the heat intact, it should be the only thing we use as a moisturizer or otherwise put on our skin and the taste is just plain delicious. There is nothing too great to be said of it. My ideal deathhttp://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/02/coconut-god-of-oil.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-4534857106050363840Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:17:00 +00002008-02-26T17:20:45.417-06:00snacksYou'd expect a bag full of nuts, seeds and dried fruit to be safe from the majority of deleterious options available to the food industry. But, as is often the case, we find these basic assumptions proven wrong time and time again. There are sulfites to preserve fruit colors, high fructose corn syrup to sweeten them, hydrogenated oils to preserve the nuts and a long list of other unhealthy http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/02/eden-foods-organic-wild-berry-mix.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-6961349434621283617Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:36:00 +00002008-02-25T19:20:43.339-06:00energy barsThis is not a bar. I can't even fathom the magnitude of linguistic truncations necessary to imagine, even for a second, that Garden of Life's Organic Fruits of Life Whole Food Bar is anything as trivial as a bar. No, this must be something else entirely.The combination of whole fruits, vegetables, sprouts, fermented seeds, unprocessed honey, extra virgin coconut oil and probiotics make it an http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/02/garden-of-life-living-foods-organic.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-8322168103925573451Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:35:00 +00002008-02-24T15:16:53.777-06:00detoxteaDetoxifying the body is probably one of the most important tools for living a healthy life. The things we eat, drink, breath, and come into contact with all have a tendency to accumulate over time in the body. The liver bears the brunt of the responsibility of cleaning up these accumulated toxins. But the fact is today we are exposed to an alarming amount of toxins. It is always good, therefore, http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/02/yogi-tea-detox.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-2276871078031382027Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:15:00 +00002008-03-17T22:33:53.066-05:00gourmetHemp foods come in all shapes and sizes now. The super-nutritious seed of the plant is worked into bars, oils, shakes, and powders in an ever-growing list of clever variants. The raw material, however, must always remain plain hemp seeds. It is therefore of the utmost importance for hemp food companies to produce the highest quality seeds. I recently received some Organic Shelled Hempseeds from http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/02/organic-shelled-hempseeds-from-nutiva.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-7713280744545094799Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:26:00 +00002008-02-22T11:19:31.667-06:00staplesFrom one of the oldest names in health food, Bragg's organic, raw, unfiltered, apple cider vinegar is perhaps the quintessential health food product in the purist's abode. It contains an orange liquid with strands of enzymes made of connected proteins from the fermentation process. These strands have become the mark of a quality apple cider vinegar and are known as the "mother." Paul C. Bragg washttp://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/02/braggs-apple-cider-vinegar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-1232294205537008831Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:06:00 +00002008-02-22T08:42:29.687-06:00philosophyHave you ever wondered why health food stores attract both hippies and yuppies alike? People who don't even own shoes shop at health food stores. People who complain about gas prices buy milk for $8 a gallon. Business executives who could eat at a fine restaurant every day, hire a cook, or even hire someone to buy health food for them still shop at health food stores.What mystical powers exist inhttp://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/02/health-food-nexus-curious-compatibility.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2284723200306961906.post-3886116738683826919Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:00:00 +00002008-02-19T22:07:23.990-06:00energy bars There have been so many of these things lately. They are dense, amorphous, sticky, and retain the shape of the packaging for only a short time after being removed. But, they are undeniably healthy -- and addictive. They are bars made out of seeds held together by honey. At times in the health food world both company and consumer become bogged down by the myriad of scientific studies, claims of http://healthfoodpurist.blogspot.com/2008/02/organic-hempseed-bar-from-nutiva.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Stephen Hudak)0