This hearty vegetable soup is a great meal for chilly fall and winter nights. I make this super-easy vegan vegetable soup about every other week during the winter. It’s thick and hearty, almost like a stew. Served with warm whole grain bread it makes a filling meal. Use beans or green peas in place of […]
Archives for October 2013
Fasting and Diabetes
The first physician to develop fasting protocols for treating diabetes was most likely G. Guelpa, a French physician. He detailed his experience in his 1912 book Autoin-toxiecation and Disintoxication, in which he discussed using fasting to treat diabetes and a variety of other conditions such as sciatica, obesity, pulmonary diseases, alcoholism, and melancholia (depression). Guelpa […]
The Fast Diet
In Dr. Michael Mosley’s popular new book The FastDiet: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting, he prescribes that adherents eat their typical diet five days per week and then spend two days consuming a quarter of their normal calories. This amounts to about 500 for women and […]