***Today, my friend Lucas Root of Urban Paleo Chef, offers us an aweome Chocolate Paleo Energy Bar recipe. You are going to love this one! *** I love a good workout. Most of us Paleo guys do – though we do strange things, like running around in the woods, lifting tree trunks over our heads,…
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Chunky Tomato Cheese Pizza Recipe
This is probably something you wouldn’t ever expect me to offer you! A chunky tomato cheese pizza recipe! Who would have imagined? Hehe!! Yes, I am the “extreme” guy when it comes to all things health and fitness! I mean when you think about it if your health is shot, what else do you have?…
The Whiter the Bread, The Sooner You Are Dead
White Flour Based Products are NOT Elements of Wellness You’ve heard it called “The Staff of Life.” Even Biblical references refer to bread consumption as common practice, presented as authentic elements of wellness. There is however a problem. Bread then and now are not the same. They didn’t eat white bread sandwiches back then. Pastries,…
Deprivation is NOT the Key to a Lifestyle of Wellness
Quality is the key element in a lifestyle of wellness. Diets = DEPRIVATION! You don’t eat this and you don’t eat that and there is nothing good to replace the loss. So, you starve and suffer. You wrestle with cravings and feel as if you are going to waste away in order to achieve…
The Best Cheesecake EVER
Most of you know me…I am very disciplined. But once in a while, probably a few times a year, the occasion arises and I want a good dessert. Even so, I am always cautious about consuming low quality, high sugar, high fat selections. So when I came across this recipe recently, I simply had…
3 Incredible Edible Nutritious Egg Breakfasts Sandwiches
Ever stopped by McDonald’s on the way to work for an Egg McMuffin? That warm, cheesy, egg and bacon sandwich, holding such promise as a hearty, healthy breakfast, fails to perform. Tasting like the paper bag in which it is delivered, it is packed with refined, over-processed, trans-fat laced ingredients. So, forget the snooze button…
Traditional Pickles: They Do the Body Good
We eat them on hamburgers and hotdogs. We enjoy them on a Saturday afternoon picnic. We may even stir up a batch in the height of summer with a fresh crop of cucumbers. They aren’t foreign to us by any means. Ranging from gherkins to sauerkraut, most pantries will have at least one jar tucked…
A Beginner’s Guide to Healthy Food Selections
I talk incessantly about whole foods and their power to fuel and heal the body. But for many, the mere idea of whole foods nutrition strikes up confusion, even fear. So today, I want to present a very basic guideline for you who are beginning your journey to nutritional wellness. Traditional Foods will feature those…
3 Post Weight-loss Strategies to Stay Lean for Life
Diets. We abide them in the name of weight-loss. But frankly, I don’t like the word. It suggests deprivation and failure. It implies suffering and difficulty. Most of all, diets plain and simple are not healthy. So what is the answer to weigh-loss and wellness? Nutrition. We’ve discussed it numerous times. Whole, living, authentic foods,…
Dinner’s in the Bag: Baked Halibut with Asparagus
At the end of a long work day, you want somehting simple, and delicious. More times than not, that desire drives you to make poor choices. Turning to fast, processed, refined foods, you may attian the convenience and the flavor you seek but the choices made are nearly always short on the nutritonal scale. It doesn’t have to…
