What’s FRESH & LOCAL in December?
Written for “Healthy Updates from Valley Natural Foods” (Burnsville, MN) Nature and local producers collaborate to bring us fresh succulent green and red gifts this month. Even after we have been gifted with a moisturizing blanket of pure white snow, local producers still deliver FRESH & LOCAL, including lush deep green upland cress, crisp bright [...] Continue
What’s FRESH & LOCAL in November?
Written for “Healthy Updates from Valley Natural Foods” (Burnsville, MN) Mushrooms are easy to overlook in our nutrient-rich rainbow of fruits and vegetables. But research increasingly reveals why fresh mushrooms join the ranks of “super foods” such as broccoli and blueberries that are nutrient dense and calorie sparse. In Asia where food and medicine are [...] Continue
What’s FRESH & LOCAL in October?
Written for “Healthy Updates from Valley Natural Foods,” (Burnsville, MN) Visualize bringing the jewel tones and earthy tastes of autumn to your dinner table. Beware: eating a cornucopia of deep reds, oranges, yellows and greens can lead to radiant optimum health. The USDA currently recommends eating at least four cups of red and orange vegetables [...] Continue
What’s FRESH & LOCAL in September?
Written for “Healthy Updates from Valley Natural Foods,” (Burnsville, MN) As September arrives on our doorsteps, we notice a change in the air and in what’s FRESH & LOCAL at Valley Natural Foods in Burnsville. We may still have a few fleeting days to savor our last bites of fresh cucumber, sweet corn and watermelon [...] Continue
What’s FRESH & LOCAL in August?
Loris Sofia Gregory, Healthy Kitchen Coach, August 3, 2011. Written for Valley Natural Foods, Burnsville, Minnesota. Follow my FRESH & LOCAL blog the first Wednesday of every month at http://valleynaturalfoods.com/wordpress/ August brings some of the healthiest peak pleasures of the summer. This month gives us a dazzling abundant palette to tantalize our taste buds: the [...] Continue
Understanding Our Relationship to the Earth
A Message from Caroline Myss, March 14 “…Only the human community has the idea that we somehow live apart from the Earth, that the Earth does not respond to our breathing, to our thoughts, to our actions. It’s incomprehensible, to be sure, to even hold such a perspective. But the Earth is that sensitive. Recycling [...] Continue
4 Tips to Kick Food Temptation to the Curb
By Marna Thall, Weight Loss Coach & Non-Diet Expert I once read that we see over 200 images every day that encourages us to eat. These days, with the Internet, I bet that number is even higher. Whether it’s billboard advertisements, a fast-food sign you drive by, or a Pillsbury brownie television ad. These messages [...] Continue
When You Hunger for Something That Isn’t Related to Food
By Marna Thall, Weight Loss Coach and Non-Diet Expert Do you ever sit there craving something salty or sweet, but you know that hunger has absolutely nothing to do with your craving? Instead, this craving for that sweet brownie or bag of salty chips has everything to do with an emotional hunger within you. When [...] Continue
The Power of Presence
“Don’t underestimate the power that is in presence. Even if seemingly nothing much is happening yet, there’s enormous power that comes through you and flows into this world. Don’t even try to understand what it wants; you can only ever get glimpses of what its ultimate purpose is. There’s no single human being who knows [...] Continue
2011: Align Your Heart with Your Home
“On the issue of the sacred, the desecration of the village and the spirit of home, as well as the notion of connection, that is why you, Loris Sofia, have returned to this dimension. You are here to reinstate the sacred inside the home. Home is a dwelling place as well as a restorative connection [...] Continue
