Ah, Matzah. The bread of affliction. Sales of Kosher for Passover prune juice soar at this time of year, as the flat bread made of white flour and water leads to widespread dietary distress among the faithful. It is particularly an issue for those who try to maintain a gluten-free lifestyle. Matzah is quite literally … Continue reading #blogExodus – Matzah
Category: Health
Why Purim Will Kill Me
I love Purim. I really do. I love the costumes, the celebrations, the insanely bloodthirsty story. I love making Mishloach Manot for our friends. I love coming home from shul, arms full of the Mishloach Manot our friends give us. But that's where my problem begins. My name is Hadass and I am a sugar … Continue reading Why Purim Will Kill Me
Dairy Dolour
I am sad today. I think I am going to have to bid farewell to a couple of my favourite food friends. Sigh. As my faithful readers know, I've been dealing with ulcerative colitis since the mid-eighties. It comes and goes, based on the amount of stress in my life and how good I am … Continue reading Dairy Dolour
Be Serious or Be Sick
As my faithful readers know, I've been struggling with an auto-immune disease (ulcerative colitis) for many years. After a very serious flareup in 2009, I started following the Specific Carbohydrate Diet, an early version of Paleo. I described my successes and failures almost exactly a year ago, and here I am again, in almost exactly … Continue reading Be Serious or Be Sick
Top 5 reasons to love your SCOBY
A SCOBY is a Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria and Yeast. The acronym usually refers to the culture used in making kombucha, but milk kefir and water kefir grains are also SCOBYs. Yoghurt cultures are not. 5. Feeling Better While there isn't much scientific proof of the benefits of fermented drinks such as kombucha and kefir, … Continue reading Top 5 reasons to love your SCOBY
Milk kefir bliss!
I know that a lot of people claim that dairy is too Neolithic to have any place in a paleo-style diet - in fact, I have seen claims that anything you can't pull off a bush or kill with a sharp stick does not belong in our diet. Hmm, a little extreme much? While 10,000 … Continue reading Milk kefir bliss!
Kombucha Love
So I've developed this thing for fermented foods and drinks. They are supposed to be really good for a damaged gut, and G-d knows I've got one of those. So I started buying kombucha at the store. Tastes good, maybe half a glass every morning followed by a glass of water really makes me feel … Continue reading Kombucha Love
It’s that time of year again …
I've signed up to run in the CIBC Run for the Cure. I'm not generally a big supporter of pink ribbon stuff, there's just too much pinkwashing going on in this world. But I have a weakness for this run, because it was the first 5K I ever ran (all of last year - nostalgia … Continue reading It’s that time of year again …
Dr. Terry Wahls – A Prophet for Our Time
I have just watched the most amazing video I have seen in a long time. A woman named Terry Wahls gave a talk at TEDxIowaCity, describing how she cured herself of secondary progressive MS. She's a physician - and after seven years of "the best treatment", including chemotherapy, was in a situation where she was … Continue reading Dr. Terry Wahls – A Prophet for Our Time
A New Year
Happy New Year to all my friends and readers, which are probably completely overlapping sets. Here's wishing everyone a healthy, happy, successful 2012, in which you conquer your Lizard Brain, achieve wonderful things, and the Maya calendar quietly rolls over. For myself, I've just come out of a nasty colitis flareup, and I need to … Continue reading A New Year