Nutrition

The record-breaking scorching heat across the nation means your body is more in need of water than ever. Afterall, you are mostly water. (Men are about 60% water and women 55%.) Water is vital to all your bodily functions including removal of waste, oxygenation, movement and nourishment. In fact, water is so essential that we can only survive about 3 days without it!  

Grocery stores are marketing battlefields where you are getting attacked from all sides. Much of the marketing onslaught comes from processors in the form of packaging claims, but some of it is as subtle as where items are placed. Brands can even pay a premium for...

If you want to subscribe to a particular way of eating, let it be nutritvorism. Nutrivores follow the nutrients, not the fads. When you are cooking for yourself or others, take the nutrivore challenge and crank up the nutrients, not the dogma.

When you envision seasonal eating in spring, produce like asparagus and strawberries may leap to mind. In fact, most proteins have a season when they are at their best as well and that is certainly the case for eggs. They are nutrition powerhouses that peak in quality in spring and summer if you know what to look for. 

The key to better nutrition when dining out is to look for whole foods and avoid the highly processed ones, that means finding restaurants that are really cooking.

Ah, spring! It is the season of potential. As a farmer, I deal in potential. I see bushels of produce when I look at a seed.