Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Remember, I have both of these on my kitchen counter. I almost always use the Vita-Mix because I don't have to wear the ear protection. I don't have to worry about the o-ring, and I have a lot more control over the speed.
Editor's choice: Vita-Mix
Overall, I recommend the Vita-Mix for a number of reasons. The unit has larger gears and actually seems more durable than the K-Tec blender. It's also quieter, more refined and has a far easier user interface (the knob controls on the front). It's perfect for all your daily blending, from smoothies to grinding whole grains into flour. |
| My dog actually runs from the kitchen when I turn the unit on.
Vita-Mix controls
Now, let's talk about the Vita-Mix control panel. The Vita-Mix control panel has an on/off switch, a variable-speed control knob and one final switch that kicks the whole unit into high gear. This is an interesting configuration. It's a lot easier to use and more intuitive, in my opinion, than the K-Tec digital control system. However, there's one oddity about the Vita-Mix control panel, which is that even when the variable knob is turned up all the way to maximum, that's not the same as high speed. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 You can soften thawed or fresh tortillas in a hot, dry pan; grill them quickly just until soft; or wrap them in a clean kitchen towel moistened with hot water, then wrap them in foil and place them in the oven until all are heated. Or, wrap the tortillas in a clean kitchen towel moistened with hot water, wrap them in foil, and bake them in a 350°F oven for about 12 minutes.
If you have a noninsulated microwaveable steamer, place a little hot water under the steamer tray. Wrap the thawed tortillas in a clean kitchen towel and place them in the steamer tray. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Back to the Rennard kitchen and chicken soup.
So there are the Rennards, preparing the soup in the kitchen and speculating on why it is a miracle remedy for colds. They theorized that -ri mavbe it has anti-inflammatory properties, O
O which alone would make it good medicine if ^ for no other reason than it would soothe sore % m throats and other inflammatory cold or flu 1/1 symptoms. Being the researcher that he is,
Rennard got the bright idea that perhaps they could test the theory out in his lab. Which they did. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Even then, release of the information must often be limited to certain
Chemical-Free Pest Control Tips
Remove all food waste from the kitchen every night to discourage potential pests from making your home theirs. There are also many natural products you can make at home or get at any health food store to rid your kitchen and home of most bugs and pests.
>• Deodorize your kitchen with a room spray made of water and a few drops of essential citrus oils.
>• Eliminate cockroaches with a powder made of equal parts baking soda and powdered sugar. |
Anne Harrington
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 When we lived in town, the neighbors were always in my kitchen and I was always in theirs. We talked. We knew what was going on there and there was always someone around to help you and keep you from feeling lonely. I miss that," she concluded, "but I guess I will never go back."14
What were the health implications of giving up neighborly chats in the kitchens for the sake of a swimming pool in one's backyard and a second car? In 1971, Roseto found out: the first heart attack death of a person younger than forty-five years old occurred in the town. And things got worse. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I took these pictures in my own kitchen (which turned out to be a problem because my kitchen soon reeked of processed meat odors). To acquire these common processed meat items, I visited the local Wal-Mart and purchased three products off the shelf:
Oscar Mayer Cotto Salami
Jimmy Dean pork sausage
Oscar Mayer Smokies (wieners)
I then took each product home, opened it and began taking photos at various magnifications. All the photos shown here are un-edited (no Photoshop) except for adjusting brightness and contrast. These processed meats photos are accurate depictions of the products. |
Melody Petersen
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 I opened a box marked 'Kitchen,'" he said, "but there wasn't anything for the kitchen in it."
His son went to Dr. Gersh two years after he did. He was diagnosed when he was a junior at Iowa State. His daughter got her diagnosis in seventh grade. Of twenty-three nieces and nephews, he says, six have been diagnosed with a form of attention deficit disorder.
Hurley told me he believes many people with the disorder are really geniuses who have been held back because they are not taking meds. His son now works as a mechanical engineer. His daughter got a doctorate in psychology. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I took these pictures in my own kitchen (which turned out to be a problem because my kitchen soon reeked of processed meat odors). To acquire these common processed meat items, I visited the local Wal-Mart and purchased three products off the shelf:
Oscar Mayer Cotto Salami
Jimmy Dean pork sausage
Oscar Mayer Smokies (wieners)
I then took each product home, opened it and began taking photos at various magnifications. All the photos shown here are un-edited (no Photoshop) except for adjusting brightness and contrast. These processed meats photos are accurate depictions of the products. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 In the late evenings, my family members often gather in the kitchen. If one of us has had a hard day, that person will often "act out" his or her dilemma with tremendous theatrical or comic exaggeration, while the rest of us join in the show. An ordinary exercise in "kitchen drama" like this can achieve a great deal of cathartic release, healing, and understanding.
You can gain the benefits of expressive release through any creative endeavor, from building models to gardening to cooking a gourmet meal. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 It had been more than a year since the remodeling contractor had taken over her kitchen, yet she had begun to fear the interludes of silence more than the construction racket itself. Silence meant work had stopped, for whatever reason, and that meant the job would take even longer. She had no idea when she would get her kitchen back, let alone her life. It was terribly unsettling, as anyone who has survived a remodeling project can attest: strangers traipsing in and out all day, no control over your time, sheetrock dust everywhere—utter confusion. |
Melody Petersen
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| I opened a box marked 'Kitchen,'" he said, "but there wasn't anything for the kitchen in it."
His son went to Dr. Gersh two years after he did. He was diagnosed when he was a junior at Iowa State. His daughter got her diagnosis in seventh grade. Of twenty-three nieces and nephews, he says, six have been diagnosed with a form of attention deficit disorder.
Hurley told me he believes many people with the disorder are really geniuses who have been held back because they are not taking meds. His son now works as a mechanical engineer. His daughter got a doctorate in psychology. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We also have an apprentice program in vegan farming, and the vegan live food kitchen apprentice. It's a three-month program, and by the time you graduate, you can really run a kitchen. I mean, not your personal, private kitchen, but you can work in a restaurant.
Mike: You can run an organic farm – maybe not a huge farm, but a plot of land.
Cousens: Yes, so we are into empowering people with all the basic skills to live a natural life. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Case in point: your kitchen cabinets. Why — if Dr. Kaichang Li has already invented a non-toxic, cost-effective replacement for urea formaldehyde — do most new kitchen cabinets sold in the US let off formaldehyde gas? The majority of plywood cabinets sold in US stores come from China, but it's not that Chinese factories aren't already making formaldehyde-free cabinets and furniture. They are; it's just that they're shipping the less-toxic products to Japan and Europe while the US market gets the formaldehyde. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| This is why I use the K-Tec blender to blend up nuts or seeds. If I were making my own peanut butter, for example, I would use the K-Tec. With the Vita-Mix, if you try to blend peanut butter or make your own nut cheeses, the Vita-Mix has a harder time getting the job done, and if you push it, the Vita-Mix will stop itself to protect the motor from overheating. It will just stop, and then you have to wait for it to cool down before you try blending again. The K-Tec, on the other hand, will just keep on grinding away. If there's one thing the K-Tec blender has, it's brute force. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You make it yourself in your kitchen using simple ingredients found at any grocery store.
The health benefits of its nutritional constituents are backed by literally thousands of scientific studies.
It's based entirely on medicine from Mother Nature and contains absolutely nothing made by Man.
It's not available by prescription. The FDA has no clue this even exists.
It has absolutely no negative side effects. No one has ever been harmed or killed by using this natural source of medicine. |
| But the beauty of Juice Feasting, once again, is that you can do it right from your own kitchen without missing a day of work. You can create the incredible benefits of juicing nutrition -- great-looking skin, loss of body fat, rapid disease reversal and more -- without visiting a single doctor or taking a single FDA-approved pharmaceutical. In fact, Juice Feasting juices will help protect your body from pharmaceuticals! Your liver, for example, which is usually hammered by taking doctor-prescribed medicines, will experience new, youthful vitality following regular Juice Feasting. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Though rosemary is generally considered so safe that it is a common kitchen herb, extremely large doses could cause convulsions and death.
Range and Appearance
Rosemary is native to the Mediterranean region but cultivated worldwide. This small, woody, evergreen shrub can reach 3 to 6 feet in height. The small, thin leaves are about 1 inch long, dark green, thick, leathery, and lanceolate. The small, two-lipped flowers are whitish, blue, or purple.
This tender perennial grows best in full sun. It prefers well-drained soil and low to moderate amounts of water, though it can tolerate drought. |
| In magical traditions, having a small piece of calamus root in all corners of the kitchen gives protection against hunger and poverty.
Constituents
Choline, eugenol, camphor, tannins, acorin
Energetic Correspondences
• Flavor: bitter, pungent, sweet
• Temperature: warm
• Moisture: dry
• Polarity: yin
• Planet: Sun/Uranus/Moon
• Element: water
Contraindications
Calamus contains beta-asarone, which when isolated may be carcinogenic. However, calamus has been used in India for thousands of years with no reports of cancer being attributed to its use. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 I'd steal junk food from the kitchen and go into the backyard to eat in secret. I was just like an alcoholic."
LaLanne's turning point came after attending an inspirational lecture by health food pioneer Paul Bragg. "He said you should obey nature's laws, and one of the big ones was to eat foods in their natural state. So I immediately cut out all white sugar and white flour," he recalls.
"The minute I cut them out, my whole life changed. My headaches went away. I got good grades in school. Within months I joined the Berkeley YMCA, became an athlete, and gained weight. It was a rebirth. |
| In the kitchen with Mother Linda: The Murky World of HFCS." "Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, fall 2001. http://www.westonaprice.org/mother-linda/cornsyrup.html#forristal.
Fuchs, Nan Kathryn. The Nutrition Detective: A Woman's Guide to Treating Your Health Problems through the Foods You Eat. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1985.
Galles, Gary A. "The Market for Space in the Market." The Freeman 50, no. 3 (2000). http://www .libertyhaven.com/theoreticalorphilosophicalissues/economics/economicissues/marketspace.shtml (accessed January 10, 2005).
Gittleman, Ann Louise. |
Ray D. Strand
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 American audiences would best remember Carl as Captain Lindeman in Sink the Bismark or as Peter the fish cook in The kitchen.
Despite his success in film, Carl's first love was painting.
Textures and depth became as fascinating to him as the characters in a movie, and to Carl, color spoke the words of life's drama. The canvas became the stage upon which the artist displayed his passion.
One day Carl recognized this same passion in the heart of another painter, Wilma Langhamer, who became his wife in 1978. They left Europe for America, the land of opportunity. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| Edible Uses
Everyone knows orange to be a delicious fruit, and it is used in the kitchen in ways too numerous to mention. It can also be fermented to make an alcoholic beverage such as Curacao. Orange peel is also edible, though usually only in small amounts, and it is used most often as a zesty flavoring. Orange flower water is also used as a flavoring, most often for desserts like ice cream and beverages. |
Jack Challem
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 If friends drop by while I'm cooking it, their mouths always water and they wonder what I'm cooking up in the kitchen.
1 cup jasmine rice
1 cup organic, free-range chicken broth (such as Pacific brand) 1 cup filtered water
Rinse the rice in a strainer and transfer it to a 1- or 2-quart saucepan. Add the broth and water. Bring it to a boil over high heat, about 5 minutes. Cover the saucepan tightly and reduce the heat to a simmer for 35 to 40 minutes. Turn off the heat and let the rice sit for 5 to 10 minutes. Fluff up the rice with a fork and serve. |
| More minor examples of obsessive-compulsive acts include needless hoarding, such as keeping hundreds of rubber bands in a kitchen drawer (rationalized, for example, by saying you'll donate them to a charitable organization, as if it really needs those rubber bands).
Frugality. There's nothing wrong with being careful how you spend your money, but obsessive-compulsive people can take frugality to an extreme. For example, washing plastic food bags for reuse until they tatter is a form of obsessive-compulsive behavior. |
| Working in the kitchen can be like a group of musicians jamming together, starting with a recipe and then spontaneously improvising. It can be playful and even sensual. If food often equates with love, then making food can be a prelude to making love. On that note, you can treat meal preparation as a form of culinary foreplay, or you can make it a fast-food quickie.
Once you begin to make the lifestyle changes I recommend in chapter 7, you will have time to cook. Consider cooking at home an investment in your neuronutrients and neurotransmitters. |
| When I found myself living alone (after my divorce), I learned how to cook in a series of baby steps, sometimes by observing or assisting friends in the kitchen and other times by watching chefs on the Food Network.
Despite the popularity of cookbooks and celebrity chefs, cooking often seems to be a dying art. Many people, especially women, feel that cooking is drudgery. Such feelings typically result from having to cook for other people, making uninspired meals, or simply being too rushed or tired to enjoy the experience of preparing fresh foods. |
| You can make sun tea by allowing two to three teabags to brew for several hours in a quart pitcher of water in the sun—or on your kitchen counter. One or two cups of weak home-brewed (or watered-down) coffee daily are probably all right for many people.
Yet another beverage option is a veggie drink, such as Greens8000, which contains very few calories. (It's sweetened with the herb stevia, which has no calories.) All you have to do is mix a little into a glass of cold water. (See ordering information in the appendix.)
Guideline 6. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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It's called "Juice Feasting" and it involves drinking large quantities of plant-based juices that you make yourself, right in your own kitchen, using nothing more than a blender and a nut milk bag. (You don't need a juicer to do this.)
 Want to listen to the audio podcast that explains Juice Feasting? Click here to listen to the Health Ranger Report podcast on Juice Feasting. |
| You have to make it yourself, in your own kitchen, on a regular basis to drink in fresh. (I make mine once a day and store it in glass jars.)
Follow it a little or a lot
You want to know something else truly incredible about Juice Feasting? You can follow it a little or a lot. You could be eating steak, pizza, McDonald's Big Macs and straberry shakes, and yet you'd still benefit tremendously from drinking just one quart of Juice Feasting juice per day. You could even be smoking cigarettes and still slash your cancer risk in a huge way by following Juice Feasting. |
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