October 14th, 2011
Let thy food be thy medicine. -Hippocrates
Hippocrates believed that the human body has the innate ability to heal itself of disease. This is also the basis of Eastern medicine but the exact opposite of the modern pharmaceutical industry’s claims that there is a pill for every ill.
2 Must watch documentaries that will immediately motivate you to eat better and thus feel better are Food Matters and The Future of Food.
Dr. Linus Pauling, winner of 2 Nobel Peace Prizes, said that “Optimum nutrition is the medicine of tomorrow.” Not pills, not advanced surgery, but food. Bon appetit!
Food Matters and The Future of Food available on Netflix.
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December 15th, 2010
One of our very favorite treats of all time. Try these delicious chocolate and almond dipped cookie sticks by Lotte and you’ll be hooked. Pre-wrapped and ready for gifting!
Regularly: Single $16, Double $26
Special Introductory Offer: Single $10, Double $20
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December 5th, 2010
New gift items have arrived and we are so excited to give you a first look.
1. Ladies Who Lunch, Insulated Lunch Tote with Bamboo Handles
A lunch tote elegant enough to use as a purse!
2. Almond Delight, Chocolate and Almond Dipped Cookie Sticks
A favorite snack in Korea, these crispy delights from Lotte Confectionery are simply heavenly.
3. My Own Lunch Bag, Cotton Reusable Lunch Bag that You Decorate Yourself
Colorful Fabric Markers are included to make lunchtime an eco-fun activity.
4. Sushi Snacker, Sheets of Roasted Savory Seaweed
Everyone who loves sushi knows that seaweed is an amazingly delicious and nutritious food. Now enjoy the crispy savory goodness anytime with these roasted seaweed sheets. Just cut with scissors and enjoy alone or with steaming hot rice. Yum!
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May 4th, 2010
Making a proper cup of tea from loose tea leaves is an affordable luxury that can add so much pleasure to your day. However, with all the extra equipment and hassle, you might often find yourself reaching for that lower quality tea bag instead. Take a look at this!
I first discovered the ingenious 3 piece tea mug years ago in Korea and marveled at the beautiful marriage of form and function. A matching ceramic strainer actually plops right into the tea mug and the lid goes right on top of that for proper steeping of the tea leaves.
Loose green tea leaves are hand picked and unoxidized. They contain life-giving nutrients such as cancer fighting anti-oxidants called catechins, theanine, chlorophyll and Vitamin C.
When making tea bags, lower quality leaves are crushed and chopped into small particles called Fanning and Dusts. No wonder tea connoisseurs are only interested in loose-leaf. Loose leaf has so much greater aroma, body and nutrients.
This tea mug set makes it so easy to brew loose tea. When your are finished steeping, you just flip the lid upside down and convert it into a holder for the strainer that will now sit and drain mess free. After enjoying your tea, you can plop the strainer back in the tea mug and steep the leaves for a second cup. Many tea lovers actually like the second brew better! So peaceful. So wise.
Don’t you love discovering great design that functions as beautifully as it looks? The beautiful crackling of the celadon porcelain is a topic for another day but you can read a bit about it here.
These celadon tea mugs are our Spring Special and are available now pre-wrapped and ready to delight you or any tea lover in your life. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do!
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February 17th, 2010
Food is a very powerful thing. Not only is it essential for life, it deeply affects how we look and feel. I’ve learned to keep my pantry pretty bare cause in the wee hours of the night, I will eat unlimited amounts of any available junk food. I’ve even been caught by my kids stuffing myself with a late night snack of plain rice. Straight out of our jumbo sized rice cooker. I have since been nicknamed “the rice monster”. Nice.
With all the recent information we have available regarding the direct relationship between the food we eat and disease, I’ve slowly started taking baby steps toward a smarter diet and one of the things that have really piqued my interest is the field of antiangiogenic food. Apparently turmeric, which is the key ingredient in curry, is an antiangiogenic superfood and a way I can get my rice fix guilt free. ^^
What are Antiangiogenic foods??
Antiangiogenic refers to inhibiting the growth of new blood vessels without which cancer cells cannot grow. When Dr. David Servan-Schreiber was diagnosed with brain cancer in his thirties, doctors told him that his diet will not make a difference in his fight with cancer. After grueling treatment he was bitterly disappointed when the cancer came back years later. This time he decided to do his own research and wrote a fascinating book calledAnti Cancer. In it, he methodically explains how we can use the war strategy of cutting supply lines to inhibit the growth of cancer cells in our body. Antiangiogenic foods help our bodies detect and cut off the rapidly developing blood vessels that are feeding new cancer cells. These same good foods, especially when eaten together, can also force the cancer cells to “commit suicide”.
We may wonder why his and so many others’ research isn’t more widely known but Dr. Servan-Schreiber explains that when nutritional treatments like this cannot be patented, they do not receive the grant money necessary for expensive double blind research that is the industry standard trusted by mainstream doctors. Dr. David Servan-Schreiber is far from the only one promoting this breakthrough research however, and the above slide is from a TED presentation by Dr. William Li. He says that we can eat to starve cancer and what we eat is our chemotherapy three times a day.
I love the fact that this is so simple and just makes so much sense. Most of these foods are so yummy that I will gladly partake in this new treatment. We will soon be offering a wider selection of tea on our website including an amazing Japanese green tea that I can’t wait to share with you. What are your favorite antiangiogenic foods?
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