Italian dressing offers a healthier option to regular creamy dressings because it’s naturally lower in calories and fat. You won’t get many nutrients from any salad dressing, but regular Italian dressing is a good source of vitamin K and healthy unsaturated fats that help prevent cardiovascular disease. Transform your greens and vegetables with this bright, […]
Spiritual Preparation Before Fasting
Whether or not a person has religious briefs, it may be useful to consider the spiritual ramifications of fasting prior to beginning a fast. Wherever the fast occurs—at home, in the wilderness, or at a facility—fasting can provide extraordinary life-changing experiences. Even people who fast in a clinic setting often have breakthrough moments. For some […]
Vegan Chocolate Almond Bark
“Bark” in the “chocolate bark” sense of a layer or stratum of hard or semi-hard candy in which various things (candy, nuts, etc.) are embedded is definitely a figurative use of the “tree skin” kind of “bark,” based on the vague resemblance of the confection to very rough tree bark. Number of servings: 4, 350 […]
Fasting: The Ultimate Diet
Allan Cott was quite the character when it came to voicing his opinion on fasting. This may not be the best book on fasting, but it has some humorous aspects. In a 1976 Cosmopolitan article entitled Fasting: The Ultimate Diet, physician Alan Cott told readers—a predominantly female audience—how to lose weight using water-only fasting. Cott […]