My LeafSide Review

My LeafSide Review

I first tried LeafSide meals in May 2018 so at this writing I’m ten months into life with LeafSide fueling me and it seems like a perfect time to give my in-depth LeafSide review. (All LeafSide links on this page are affiliate links. If you place an order through one of these links, you’ll generate […]

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Vegan Island: delisheeYo

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If you ask around where to eat vegan food on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, you will be enthusiastically encouraged by nearly everyone to try delisheeYo (yes, little “d” and two “e’s” since 2013, I asked) on Palmetto Bay Road on the South end of the island. DYo, as it is affectionately known by […]

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Introducing LeafSide WFPB Meal Packs!

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Once upon a time I wrote a blog post about Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen recommendations. Many months later I received a phone call from a brand new company, LeafSide, that is developing shelf-stable meal packs that make it easy to meet Dr. Greger’s nutritional recommendations. This excited me primarily for two reasons. (All LeafSide links […]

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Epidemic Heart(less) Disease

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Heart disease is America’s #1 killer. It takes the lives of over 600,000 people per year (source) through coronary artery disease, heart attack, stroke, arrhythmias, and congenital heart defects. As Dr. Michael Greger writes so well in his book How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease, “Imagine if […]

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Eat Like a Modern, Educated Human

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There is so much talk about whether our diets ought to mimic that of early humankind or that of our distant primate relatives. How about we eat like the modern, educated humans that we are instead of like the past versions of ourselves who do live and have lived in very different worlds, under immensely […]

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My First Floatation Tank Experience

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I’ve been hearing a lot about floatation tanks (otherwise called sensory deprivation tanks or isolation tanks) lately and have been wanting to try one. My husband and I watched the documentary Float Nation and immediately afterwards I Googled to find out the nearest float center to me which I found to be in Savannah, GA. […]

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Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen in Photos

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I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Dr. Greger’s audio version of his book “How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease.” The first part of the book reviews the leading causes of death in America and how to avoid them to the best of your ability with lifestyle choices. The […]

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The Next Great Food Film

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If you haven’t yet heard, the two guys who produced “Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret” have created a brand new food film titled “What the Health” and it is powerful. It compliments what “Cowspiracy” started and shows us another angle of our deceptive and destructive food system. “What the Health” exposes the collusion and corruption in […]

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