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Recipe book, or do I need to write one

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My favorite superfoods

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How have your friends supported you (or not)?

What's the main dish that's served at pot lucks? Pasta! And what's pasta loaded with? White flour!

Getting children to accept strange tasting superfoods or supplements like fermented cod liver oil, butter oil or liver can be difficult. How do you offer these superfoods to your children and get them to take them?

Any time you broach the subjects of natural or holistic health, you run into that gray murky area where you have to watch what you write and make sure you are not making any claims that the FDA does not approve.

Do you have a favorite recipe for a treat that does not call for white flour and sugar? Please share it here.

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All Raw Cheesecake Just because my kids can't eat white flour and sugar doesn't mean they never get treats. This cheesecake is a favorite in our family and is often used as birthday cake. You can decorate it with fruit such as sliced strawberries to give it a more festive look. The recipe is taken from the book Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon.

The Weston Price Foundation is the gold standard for truly good nutrition. Weston Price was a dentist practicing in the 1930s who over the course of many summers visited fourteen different native groups and correlated the health of their teeth to what they were eating. He consistently found that as long as the people ate their traditional whole foods diet, their teeth (and the rest of their bodies) were healthy. When they started eating Westernized foods their dental and overall health...

If you take to reading food labels you will start to notice some ingredients come up again and again. Sugar, MSG, high fructose corn syrup, spices that really don't mean "spices", things you can't pronounce. If you can't have it, chances are it's in that package you're holding.

What lead to your decision to cut white flour and sugar out of your diet (or the diet of a loved one)?

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You can't eat what? Whenever my husband or I have to explain that our middle daughter Edith absolutely cannot handle white flour or sugar the first reaction is usually one of disbelief.