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• Hi, shgadwa. These folks are really good to talk to: http://www.barianioliveoil.com/ I buy my oil directly from them. They can answer all of your olive oil questions and they don’t hedge or waffle. I think they really do have an fully certified orga…

  in What kind of oils to buy?????? Comment by TomsMom
• I have a cotton filled futon from Japan, about 3 inches thick. I’m pretty comfortable with it. I think the “grass” mats you’re talking about might be tatami mats, stuffed with rice straw. They are awesome but horribly expensive and extremely heavy. …

  in Uncomfortable Comment by TomsMom
• I think you have a bug from dirty hands, either the kids or the people who handled the fresh foods that were sold. The same thing happened to me a few weeks ago after eating fresh produce at a very pricey restaurant buffet. My stomach cramped up aft…

  in bad stomachache Comment by TomsMom
• I don’t know about smoothies, but I would agree on just the greens for healthy gums and clean teeth.

  in Gums, Brains and Greens Comment by TomsMom
• The enormous food price increases come from sheer greed, from people running to take advantage of oil hikes. There is no reason for the increases I am seeing; they are far and beyond an increase in the price of fuels. People are just bad.

  in Need a loan very soon! Comment by TomsMom
• If you are still drinking the same amount of water that you did before you started to eat lots of fruits and veggies, then you have a ton of water in your system and yes, you’ll piss like a racehorse. There much, much more water in these fresh foods…

  in Pee... Comment by TomsMom
• I don’t know what kind of anemia your mother has, but if it’s iron anemia, then you can tell her that meat has less iron calorie for calorie than greens, such as kale. It’s a fact that is easy to check out. Meat is not usually recommended to be eate…

  in Fear of losing certain things... Comment by TomsMom
• I know this is a dumb question, but have you either 1)eaten a lot of salt or salty things lately or 2) dumped all the salt suddenly from your diet? By salty things, I also included stuff like canned beverages, frozen vegetables, anything that is pro…

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• It made me ill. Hallucinations are not what I call “detoxing”, but I know that diet works well for others.

  in 80/10/10 and how I feel about it... Comment by TomsMom
• Hi, pianissima. Yes, I agree with you! It scares the crap out of me to see how the big corps are snapping up the organic farms and companies and more depressing is the way those farms and companies are willing to sell out. I did check for local orga…

  in Why I don't always eat local or organic and why. Comment by TomsMom
• (shoot, I tried to edit my post and deleted it instead, grrr!!! This is what I had pasted when I tired to correct, sorry:) I understand how you feel, rosehebrew. I know it’s very much the thing to buy local, almost as though it’s a fad, and yet I am…

  in Why I don't always eat local or organic and why. Comment by TomsMom
• I had no idea aborted babies were used.

  in Please help!.. vaccination.. Comment by TomsMom
• I haven’t managed to make tahini yet, but I have sprouted sesame seeds. I soaked them overnight(about 8 hours) and then rinsed them 3 times a day. They had nice little roots by the second day. Very tasty.

  in Making tahini Comment by TomsMom
• Having lived in Burma as a kid for a couple of years, I would say wait to have your baby until you come home and don’t fret about age. An infant is too young to clobber with all those vaccines and you shouldn’t take it over there without any protect…

  in Help: Vacc, Baby, India Travel Comment by TomsMom
• I would start with keeping a very careful diary of what foods you eat might that cause the acne to worsen. Also, I would find a more natural way of cleansing the skin and skip the soaps, detergents and moisturizers. They are bad and can only cause h…

  in Healing acne Comment by TomsMom
• I’m even more saddened by the gross exploitation of the workers, then and now. Nothing has changed. We are not good people. Thank you for the article; I had forgotten all about that.

  in Bananas are Dying, Killed by Corporate Monoculture! Comment by TomsMom
• Just my own feelings, I think buckwheat sprouts, along with alfalfa sprouts, are highly over rated for nutrition. Buckwheat is not a grain, it’s an herb, and so I would treat it as such, i.e., carefully. I agree with cannibalwarrior and avoid real g…

  in Fewest foods, adequate nutrition Comment by TomsMom
• Also, you can go by color. When it starts to darken, it’s getting ripe. When mine start to darken, I give a gentle squeeze, but not hard enough to bruise. If it yields slightly it’s ready but if it’s still hard, I let them sit another day. Sometimes…

  in avocado Comment by TomsMom
• On the teflex sheet substitute question: for a food dehydrator, I’ve heard not to use wax paper but to use parchment paper. So that is what I use, although I find it sometimes is a bit too absorbent. Thank you for the wax paper tips!:)

  in Wax paper tip - not rocket science Comment by TomsMom
• The government can blow me.

  in Codex wants herbs and garlic illegal? Comment by TomsMom
• Awful. And it makes me realize just how closely involved many of our Congressmen are in this evil.

  in bisphosphonates being advertised as prophylactics for breast cancer, a new evil from Big Pharma and Comment by TomsMom
• germin8, they might very know well who. Usually when this happens, even on a large scale, the powers that be, including government agencies, gather to decide how to avoid hurting the companies involved. LIke with the last poisoned ground meat. This …

  in Raw Tomatoes - Salmonella Comment by TomsMom
• I thought the same thing about that line, rawmama. It is ridiculous and utterly useless, but it is actually effective in a lazy society which can barely read.

  in Raw Tomatoes - Salmonella Comment by TomsMom
• I don’t know that ingesting something like salmonella is so easy to throw off if even if you’re eating all raw, although I think there is a much, much better chance of fast recovery. More and more nasty strains of bacterias are being formed from our…

  in Raw Tomatoes - Salmonella Comment by TomsMom
• Just like pianissima said:D After I do a full body brushing, I take a plain shower, no soap, and rinse all that yucky dead skin and old skin oil away.

  in body brushing Comment by TomsMom
• Well said, Zoe!

  in Rationally un-raw... Comment by TomsMom
• There’s nothing to feel bad about, hon. There is no failure, here. OOXX

  in Rationally un-raw... Comment by TomsMom
• Poor girl! I know, stress triggers weird cravings, very hard to control for some of us!! I find that getting back on track after being naughty(REALLY naughty) is easier when I fill up on apples, apples, avocado and lettuce salads, more apple, more s…

  in I need help getting back on track Comment by TomsMom
• I had a fever of 105 as a small child and now have very “soft” brain injury from it. I hate to take drugs, too, but I would want to get that temperature down to a more reasonable number.

  in fever danger? Comment by TomsMom
• I was just thinking on that first question, kandace. When you say “organic foods instead of pasteurized foods” . . . a lot of foods(or maybe I should say “products”) are “organic”. I mean, if you just meant organic RAW foods, ignore me:) I see boxes…

  in Simple Answer? Comment by TomsMom