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Looking for a great way to boost your immune system, increase fiber and get more green, fresh, vitamin-rich, and mineral-loaded food in your diet?

Eat Kale of course! Kale has more nutritional value for fewer calories than almost any other food around. It's also of the few green vegetables that is always abundant and flavorful during the coldest months of the year. Cultivated for more than 2,000 years, Kale was the most widely eaten green vegetable in Europe until the Middle Ages when cabbage became more popular.

Kale is versatile, inexpensive, (a large bunch often costs less than $1.50) easy to cook and teeming with nutrients and minerals, taking top marks in almost every nutrient category. A one-cup serving of kale provides 354% of the recommended daily value (DV) of Vitamin A, 89% of Vitamin C, 1328% of Vitamin K, 10% -20% of Calcium, depending on the variety, and about 15% of dietary fiber.

This powerhouse vegetable deserves its own infomercial. Kale is packed with antioxidants like lutein and zeaxanthin, which protect eyes, skin and lungs. Eating kale improves bone health, reduces risk of macular degeneration and boosts the body's detoxification enzymes, which can help detoxify cancer-causing chemicals. Kale is a great source of iron and carotenoids (which provide vitamin A). In Japan, Kale juice ranks high as a popular dietary supplement.

For many though, Kale is a bit of a stranger. Like an unknown neighbor, you've likely passed these tall, frilly leaves with their rich, green color and a possible tinge of purple, on your way to pick up some broccoli or spinach in the produce aisle. Allow me to introduce you to your new best vegetable friend, Kale.

Fresh Kale will boast firm leaves that stand up straight in a bunch. Avoid Kale that is wilting, browning or yellowing.

Kale keeps well stored in the refrigerator for several days. Before eating or cooking, rinse leaves thoroughly with water. Most people prefer to remove the stem, by simply tearing the leaf away from the fibrous white stalk in the middle. You can also fold the leaf in half and use a knife to separate the leaf from the stem.

Quick Serving Ideas:

Simply Steamed: For extra fiber, steam Kale for 3-4 minutes, and sprinkle with olive oil, salt and pepper.

Sautéed: Sauté chopped kale over medium high heat with olive oil and garlic. When Kale turns bright green, add finely chopped ginger, ground coriander and curry powder to taste. Mix well, then add about 3 tbsp. rice vinegar to pan. Cook to burn off the vinegar scent, then turn off heat and cover for 2-3 minutes, but serve while Kale is still bright green.

With Pasta: Combine chopped cooked Kale, pine nuts and feta cheese with whole grain pasta drizzled with olive oil.

Kale also blends in with the crowd. Add a cup of Kale to fruit smoothies - the Kale adds body to the smoothie and the flavor is absorbed by the other ingredients. Chiffonade the leaves into ribbons and add to soups, stir frys, stews, meatloaf or pasta sauce. Kale also makes a great substitute for spinach or Swiss chard in many recipes.

Unlike many other green leafy vegetables, Kale freezes well, so if you can't eat the whole bunch, chop, and blanch in boiling water for two minutes, before storing in the freezer for future meals.

Enjoy the healthy benefits, flavor and versatility of kale this season. Your body and taste buds will thank you.

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Soap Nuts - a Truly Green, 100% Natural Detergent and Cleanser? They Sound Too Good to be True!

If you are looking for a good green, chemical free, eco-friendly, high efficiency detergent for that new HE washer, or just something more environmentally friendly for that old Maytag, soap nuts are a must try. Hands down, they are the finest "TRULY" natural detergent out there. NaturOli recently received "the best eco-friendly detergent" recommendation by Examiner.com.

Why do I emphasize "truly"? Because the degree of greenwashing in this industry is astonishing. Study the labels - and know there are thousands of ways to legally escape the truth. Labels are carefully and skillfully crafted to sell you. That's their sole objective. Just because it looks and/or states green, natural, chemical free, etc. means nothing. You must drill deeper to find the truth.

I write this with the premise that you have at least a little knowledge of soap nuts. Not much is required. But for the sheer sake of some brevity, I do not stop to explain every term. Fair enough?

Soap nuts are simply GIFTS that Mother Nature has provided us. They're going to change the way we think - and the way we clean (or at least WHAT we are cleaning WITH). The soap nut (or better yet, saponin - the active ingredient) is bringing a whole new world to washing laundry and cleaning in general. 100% natural, safe, gentle, anti-microbial, anti-fungal, hypoallergenic, fragrance free, biodegradable AND it actually works! Geesh...sounds too good to be true, right? Well, it is true. Believe it.

Okay, you MUST be asking, "Where's the proverbial skeleton in the closet?" Where's the hitch? You must be skeptical. I certainly was. Let's see what we can find in that closet:

Other than the rather unorthodox method of the soap nuts' traditional usage, there simply isn't a downside - not even economically if used properly. Interestingly, NaturOli is doing amazing things to maintain ALL the benefits of the soap nuts - without even changing HOW you are accustomed to washing laundry or cleaning the house. No concerns about convenience coming very, very soon. PLUS the purity and integrity of the soap nut is not being compromised or diminished in any way.

The weirdest story is about how villagers can use soap nuts to stun fish - that are then consumed, I must add. Well, if you know much about fish, a heavy dose of just about anything will usually kill them. Have you ever had an aquarium? Interestingly, even this story is sketchy at best. One thing I can write with complete assurance is that NaturOli's official Material Safety Data Sheet utilizing our proprietary US extraction process states the extract (pure saponin) to be safe and harmless. Note: It is not for consumption, mind you. It's NOT food.

Let's try other angles:

Sustainability. Absolutely no issue. In fact, the mukorossi tree is a very prolific soapberry producer. It grows over 60 feet tall, and can produce bountiful harvests for up to ninety years. Although most soap nuts are wild-crafted, sapindus tree plantations are springing up in India and Nepal. Since the tree grows well in even poor soils, some otherwise unproductive ground can be made productive. In fact, that's a nice little added natural resource and economic stimulus for these countries.

How about Fair Trade? Are these little gems actually "blood diamonds"? No. In fact, the exporters are feverishly working on getting their official Fair Trade certifications I'm certainly not going to think that there isn't some mean plantation owner out there somewhere. That would be rather naive. However, there is no record of inhumane treatment to be found. We do know that many poor villagers are making a living by harvesting the wild, fallen fruits and sun drying them for sale to the exporters or for wages from the co-ops. There's certainly nothing wrong with that.

A paradigm shift is needed to fully embrace soap nuts, but that's only a matter of time. It's hard to get over a lifetime of programming by the marketing departments of some of the largest companies in the world. Isn't it interesting that soap nuts only recently washed up on US shores? (Pun intended.) Well, that's a topic for an article of its own. However, now, we only need to use our heads to maximize their potential. I personally have a TRUE 90% green cleaning regime in my home. And it's not due to the so-called green products I see all over the place. It's due to soap nuts.

BTW, on this "so called green" note: I see Seventh Generation products everywhere. This is marketing hype at its finest. Every formula I have checked doesn't even come close to natural and green as their marketing portrays so well.

Has anyone ever bothered to read and study their ingredients?

If not, the following is the full ingredient list for their "Baby Laundry Liquid Detergent" detergent (assuming it must be the safest, and most benign):

Aqua (water), sodium laureth sulfate & coceth-7 (plant-derived cleaning agents), sodium gluconate (soil dispersant), oleic acid (plant-derived anti-foaming agent), sodium hydroxide (alkalinity builder), sodium borate (alkalinity builder & soil dispersant), sodium chloride (thickener), amylase & protease (non-animal derived enzymes), calcium chloride (cleaning enhancer), hexahydro-1,3,5-tris (2-hydroxyethyl)-s-triazine (preservative, less than 0.05%. Trace materials are commonly present in cleaning product ingredients.

This is chemical soup. I was shocked! They cleverly attempt to disguise the triazine that has a 9 rating (10 being the worst possible health hazard) in Skin Deep's ingredient database. Let's see...it's linked to cancer; allergies; immune system toxicity; skin, eye and lung irritation; organ system toxicity; ecotoxicology...need I go on? Amazing that SLS is the SECOND ingredient after water. Well, at least that only rates as a 4 (moderate hazard). Too bad there's an awful lot in it. It's nice knowing that it's plant derived (as many poisons are).

Is there a conscience in this outfit? Cute babies and kids, caring mothers, green leaves, blue skies - such imagery blankets their products and site. It's so misleading. Their mission statement: "In our every deliberation we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." Okay, now I at least know where the name came from. I guess seven generations ought to be long enough to make us ill or worse.

That's enough. I apologize for the long departure. It's just so disturbing.

Back to soap nuts: If you're not familiar with them yet, you will be soon. There is a rapidly growing movement around the globe that is recognizing the true potential of these remarkable little beauties. You will see more sellers, more advertising, more labs developing saponin-based products. Most importantly, your awareness will grow.

Mother Nature had the wisdom and generosity to make soap nuts readily available to us. Now, it's up to us - and all those that are formulating, marketing and selling them - to do the RIGHT things.

This is such an interesting characteristic of Mother Nature. As usual, she only points out the direction. I feel in this case she even went one extra step further and actually mapped out a path for us. Will we have the common sense to follow it?

I certainly hope so.

About the Author

Founder of NaturOli, a respected formulator of natural skin care products, soaps, detergents, and cleansers, plus distributor of soap nuts.

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too much food for a day?

was the foods i ate today way too much for a 95 pound 5 foot tall female?

2 cups muslix banana nut cereal 400cal
sandwhich:
(2 whole wheat whole grain toasts 150cal
2 slices of extra lean turkey breast 50 cal
4 pickles 30 cal
4 cucumbers 10 cal)
1 banana 100cal
1 cup grapes 100cal
1 cup blueberries 100 cal
1 cup brown rice 200 cal
1 cup cherries 100 cal
1/2 cup optimum slim cereal 100 cal

this is not what a regularly eat, today i just went on a random binge and i dont know why, but was this too much???
also if i had a small piece of chicken will what i ate today make me fat

wow are you serious thats definitely not to much

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