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I’ve mentioned before that my daughter is a typical two year-old and thus getting her to try new foods can be challenging from time to time. Her favorite saying regarding food these days is, “Maybe I do like this!” My go-to strategy these days is to hide foods in things she already knows she likes. One of her favorite dishes recently is noodles with any kind of sauce. In order to get vegetables in her that she wouldn’t ordinarily eat, I end up stuffing them into sauce.

My mom has been talking about the sensitivity of a dog’s sense of smell and their ability to smell out cancer for a number of years.  She has gone as far as looking for local people who would be able to help her train a dog to help her detect cancer.

The American diet is characterized by an excess of pro-inflammatory processed omega 6 oils and a lack of anti-inflammatory omega 3 oils due to our reliance on highly heated and refined vegetable oils.  In fact, most of our oils come from the industrial waste of soy, cottonseed, and corn.  The processing of vegetable oils at high heat (230 degrees or more) destroys the protective double and triple chemical bonds that are characteristic of good oils, thus increasing the free radicals that ravage our blood vessels and cause harm.

Here are a few more photos from the garden.

All photos taken by David Klemp.

Here’s a round up of issues that you may have missed thanks to the debt ceiling drama of the recent weeks.

Around here, our air conditioner seems like it has been running 24/7 and we’re close to record high temps for the month of July.  As such, it’s too hot to cook inside (and many days it feels to hot to be standing over a grill) so we’ve gotten pretty creative regarding meals that don’t heat the house.  We’ve even gone as far as cooking breakfast on the grill.

Sometimes it seems like we are more prepared to deal with the big issues that come up in life.  Sure, they are difficult and painful, but we know that how well we weather these catastrophes in our life whether they are a family loss, a natural disaster, or the loss of a job demonstrates how well we can recover.

Depending on where you live, your children may be heading back to school as soon as in the next couple of weeks.  Here are some suggestions to make your life and your child’s transition to a new school year a little easier.

This issue is near and dear to my heart because my grandmother has Alzheimer’s. I think it is pretty incredible that in rare, genetic forms of the disease they can now connect changes in the brain that occur 10 to 20 years prior to the onset of the disease to Alzheimer’s itself.