One-Pot Organic Pasta

Jesse Cool is an organic food pioneer, prolific author and owner of three organic restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area. She shows us how to prepare an easy one-pot, seven-ingredient, 10-minute pasta recipe to get any cooking recluse back into the kitchen. With garden fresh ingredients including cabbage, garlic and herbs, this is one cost-friendly recipe you’ll want to have on-hand to please the taste buds of your hungry family.

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Cool Eatz Cafe and Catering

Organic Omelette

Breakfast at Jesse Cool’s house in Palo Alto, California, often starts in her amazing garden out back. A prolific author, organic cooking expert and owner of three restaurants in the San Francisco area, Jesse shows us how to whip up a healthy vegetable and herb omelette to start your day off right.

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Cool Eatz Cafe and Catering

10-Minute Tomato Sauce

Chef Marlene Sorosky shows us how to make a fresh and delicious 10-minute tomato sauce from her grandmother’s recipe. She brings together the flavors of organic olive oil, pressed garlic, fresh basil and, of course, lycopene rich tomatoes.

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Tomato Sauce Recipe

Peanut Butter Muffins

These organic treats can be great for your health, great for your waistline and great for your pocketbook as well! Join award-winning author and chef Marlene Gray as she whips up some power-packed peanut butter muffins.

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Muffin Recipe

Organic Smoothies

Powdered green supplements may be good for us, but they don’t always taste great. Marlene Sorosky joins us in the Healing Quest kitchen to make a power shake that packs a great taste along side Maca and other healthy ingredients from the Amazon rainforest. Add a little ice cream, sorbet or frozen yogurt and turn it into a healthy dessert everyone will love.

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Green Tea Chai Frappe

Green tea has powerful healing properties, and top chef Renee Loux shares her unique recipe for a green tea chai frappe that could be a great breakfast or dessert. She begins by making fresh almond milk, then instead of adding water she adds green tea – which is not only beautifying, but also rich in antioxidants. She then adds some spices including chai, cinnamon and ginger, then blends with ice and serves with peppermint garnish.

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Twice-Baked Potatos

Most of us make potatoes as a side dish, but most of us don’t realize potatoes are full of fiber and other great nutrients. It turns out that 3,000 ORAC units are what we need to have good health, and most Americans get about half of that. Russet potatoes, for example, give use the daily ORAC units we need, which is why Marlene Sorosky, an author of eight cookbooks, shows us how to make a delicious twice-baked potato everyone will enjoy.

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Dr. Alan Greene
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Recipe

Chocolate Desert

One thing most of us have to be careful about is our sweet tooth – that attraction to high calorie goodies like sugar and chocolate. That’s why we were happy to meet a fabulous chef in Hawaii who’s developed a sweet and healthy desert with a secret ingredient.

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Renee Loux
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Pineapple Recipe

Pineapples are an incredible source of lots of vitamins and some great minerals, but according to Renee Loux, a chef, author and nutrition consultant on Maui, pineapple is especially rich in a precious enzyme called bromeline which helps digest protein. Renee helps us understand what to look for when selecting the perfect pineapple, and how to make a delicious pineapple recipe everyone around the table will enjoy.

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Kapalua

Digestive Health for Children
The Probiotic Lifestyle

Probiotics in recent years have attracted growing interest for their health benefits for both the digestive and immune systems in adults and children. Dr. Asma Sadiq, Director of Child Development at New York’s Beth Israel Hospital and an integrative physician, and Dr. Robert Lee, Medical Director of the Continuum Center for Health and Healing in New York, say many inflammatory and autoimmune diseases are greatly affected by gut flora, and probiotics are now much more of the conversation.

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Vitamins for Kids
Different Advice for Different Ages

The American Medical Association currently recommends that every adult in the U.S. takes a multi vitamin every day to help keep them healthy. The issue of vitamins for youngsters, however, has been much less clear-cut. Dr. Alan Greene, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and author of several child-rearing books and a popular website for parents, says vitamin supplements become increasingly important with the discontinuation of breast milk, especially Vitamin D, DHA / Omega-3 and calcium.

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Dr. Alan Greene
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Better School Food
Moms Battle the Junk Lunch

All across the country moms are focusing on a problem that’s affecting a huge percentage of our kids: the epidemic of childhood obesity. They’re advocating for a better food environment wherever kids meet and eat, and that includes childcare centers, preschools, K-12 schools, after school programs and even summer camps. One result is The Children’s Bill of Rights for Better School Food.

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Family Meals
The Home Cooking Tradition Battles Extinction

The frantic pace of modern life takes its toll on many of us in many ways, and one of those is at the dinner table every night. The family meal – that time-honored tradition – is something of an endangered species. Dr. Andrew Weil is a world-renowned pioneer in the field of integrative medicine who believes that good health results from a number of factors including home cooked organic meals and strong family relationships.

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Surprising Facts About
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Organic Baby Food
Avoiding Overprocessed Ingredients

When it comes to meals with our kids, it’s very important to start them out with the healthiest foods possible. Our organic nutrition expert, Dr. Alan Greene, tells us that nutrient quality from conventional agriculture is on the decline. He also explains why parents don’t want overprocessed baby foods that could lead to a taste for processed foods as a toddler and as an older child. Plus, the EPA has determined that babies are more vulnerable to chemical toxins than adults because they consume more pound for pound.

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Dr. Alan Greene
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Organic Corn
Avoiding Genetically Modified Crops, Part I

Choosing organic corn means skipping most conventional foods. In fact, more than 4,000 U.S. products contain corn as an ingredient, and that doesn’t count all the corn used in livestock production. More chemical fertilizers and pesticides are used on corn than any other crop, and most corn (over 50 million acres in the U.S.) is genetically modified. Switching to organic corn, according to Dr. Alan Greene, is not yet an easy thing to do, yet it could do wonders for our health and our planet.

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Dr. Alan Greene
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Organic Soy
Avoiding Genetically Modified Crops, Part II

About two thirds of the fat consumed by Americans – vegetable oils or animal fats – is soybean oil. And soy protein isolated from soy meal is about 98% of what is fed to our livestock. Soy is second only to corn in pesticide use in the United States. Beyond this, soy leads the way in genetically modified organisms. That’s why Dr. Alan Greene, a noted pediatrician, author and organic food expert says switching to organic soy is a significant step for reducing toxicity in our diets.

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Dr. Alan Greene
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Organic Peanut Butter
Avoiding Genetically Modified Crops, Part III

More acres in the United States are planed in peanuts than any fruit or any vegetable or any nut. According to the National Peanut Board, peanut butter is the main use of peanuts in the United States. About the time peanut allergies began to get more common, many of us started thinking about peanut butter as an overly sweet, high fat, unhealthy food. However, it’s really the other ingredients in most conventional peanut butters that are unhealthy, from corn syrup and hydrogenated fats and pesticides.

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Dr. Alan Greene
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Organic Catsup
Avoiding Genetically Modified Crops, Part IV

Turns out catsup has an important nutrient called lycopene, and is one of nature’s most powerful antioxidants. In some studies it’s been shown to prevent cardiovascular damage and cancer, and helps to prevent and heal damage in our cells. Tomatoes are one of the top 10 sources of lycopene in our diets; more than 80% of our lycopene comes from tomatoes. Researchers have recently discovered that on average organic catsup has 57% more lycopene than its counterparts, and double the total antioxidants – a big nutritional difference.

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Dr. Alan Greene
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Organic Apples
The Case For Two Apples a Day

Researchers say if American women would just eat one apple a day that could be enough to halt the rise in breast cancer. Two apples a day can drop cholesterol from 240 to just under 200! They key qualifier, according to Dr. Alan Greene, is that we consume organic apples because they have higher levels of all good polyphenols and phytonutrients.

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Dr. Alan Greene
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Organic Potatoes
More Than Just a Side Dish

When he was in medical school, Dr. Alan Greene was taught that potatoes are essentially empty calories. But it turns out they can be a nutritious, low-calorie high-fiber food with good glycemic index, and that have important vitamins and minerals and other phytonutrients we’re just beginning to discover – including something called Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) which creates a powerful anti-aging affect.

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Dr. Alan Greene
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Organic Wine
Reserveratrol in Red Wine Grapes

Reserveratrol is found naturally in its highest levels in red grapes, especially in red wine grapes, and the amounts that are present in red wine are actually high enough to make a different medicinally. When tested, organic red wines averaged 32% higher in reserveratrol than conventional wines, and has been shown to have anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer and anti-aging effects, as well as brain protective effects. Drinking organic wines not only help us avoid nasty chemicals, is also helps farm workers and their families.

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Dr. Alan Greene
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Organic Milk
It's All About the Cow

There’s more to a glass of milk than meets the eye. Dr. Alan Greene suggests you choose organic milk every time. A noted pediatrician, author and board member of The Organic Center says hidden from view is where the cow came from, the dairy where the cow was milked, and the acres of cropland where the feed for the cow was grown. When we’re buying a glass of conventional milk, says Greene, we’re buying into a whole system of chemical agriculture including antibiotics, synthetic hormones, pesticides and genetically modified animal feed.

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Trace Minerals from the Sea
Countering the Effects of Depleted Farmland

The depleted condition of much of our farmland is a growing concern for many scientists. Lots of foods we eat today just don’t have the nutrients they used to. That’s especially true for one important ingredient: trace minerals. Nutritional expert Mary Mulry tells us how trace minerals are actual building blocks of our nutrition and are essential to our health, and that sea vegetation provides an abundant source of trace minerals that actually mimic what is in the human blood stream.

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Natural Gourmet Institute

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Camu Camu
The Feel Good Fruit of the Amazon

The fruit of the Camu Camu tree that grows in the Amazon flood plane is the highest naturally occurring source of Vitamin C in the world. Camu Camu also has calcium, phosphorus and potassium, and provides nutrition that facilitates the uptake of important neurotransmitters including serotonin – which is why Camu Camu is called the “feel good fruit” of the Amazon!

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Vitamin D
With Soram Khalsa, MD

Vitamin D has been the subject of numerous reports linking its deficiency to many health issues, and is being touted as a way to possibly prevent many chronic diseases. Dr. Soram Khalsa is an integrative physician who's emerging as a leading expert on this hot topic. He's recently delved deeply into the subject of Vitamin D and published a book on its health benefits.

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Probiotics
Beyond the Multi-Vitamin

Since 2002 the American Medical Association has been recommending that every adult in the U.S. take a multi-vitamin every day to help prevent chronic disease. Now another all-natural supplement is attracting intense scientific interest – probiotics. Some researchers are even saying it could be even more essential that a multi-vitamin as a basic ingredient to digestive health and wellness.

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Essential Formulas