Delicious meals with the best cuts so you can look & feel younger
Duck season is here, finally bringing prized duck liver. Understanding how the fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, K2) work together explains why we love it so much!
Pastured or wild ducks are known for having some of the highest quantities of vitamin K2 in the western diet – stored in the liver and fat. But the beauty of the high K2 content in the liver is that it’s combined with vitamins A and D as well, making it a true superfood.
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My friend was recently blaming genetics for fill-in-the-blank disease. “My doctor says it’s genetic; there’s nothing I can do about it.” In this case, it happened to be cardiovascular disease, but I think that it’s a pretty common sentiment.
Yet, there may be many ways to avoid problems, even when your genes predispose you to a specific condition. Weston A Price suggested this was possible with nutrition. Modern science now has an entire field of study (epigenetics) devoted to it.
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Dinner prep: a quick summertime visit to my community garden
Why do I feed these offal foods to my children? How could my husband agree to such treatment? What does this look like in practice, via our dinner schedule!? Ahhh, I thought you’d never ask….