Elizabeth Yarnell's Blog, page 18

The New Urbanism: Hawks in the Alleyways

My great Earth Day experience yesterday was watching a hawk wing through the  heavy spring snowstorm into a nesting box mounted on the third story of a town home wall across the alley from my kitchen window. Lately, in the last three weeks or so, we’ve been coming upon piles of pigeon feathers in various [...]

Happy Earth Day! Some Tips to Help the Earth

Happy Earth Day! A few ideas to love your planet earth today and every day: Drive less. Combine your errands and map your route for the most efficient car ride. Use a bike for transportation. Denver has a great B-Cycle system, with bike depots all over the city where you can swipe your card and [...]

More Vegetables in Glorious One-Pot Meals

Just bought your book (Version 1. Didn’t realize there was a revised edition).     Anyway, this seems like a dumb question but the book doesn’t make it clear to me if I always top up recipes with vegetables to fill the dutch oven.     For instance, in the “Glorious Macaroni Cheese”, there are veges already layered in [...]

Can Allergens Be Absorbed Through Your Skin?

Allergens can absolutely be absorbed through the skin. Beyond the obvious topical dermatitis you might get from touching poison ivy, for example, irritants that come into contact with your skin can give you effects that are more than skin deep. Pain, inflammation, fatigue, migraines, nervous system issues… These are all examples of how our bodies [...]

Your Toxic Threshold

There are some 80,000 chemical compounds in our world that didn’t exist 200 years ago. We are exposed to chemicals at every turn: in the air we breathe; the water we drink; the soaps, cosmetics, and personal products we use; the foods we eat; and even the clothes we wear. Everyone has an individual tolerance [...]

Mira Stainless Steel Container Set for Safe Food Storage

I was excited to receive this Mira Stainless Steel Container Set to try out and review because I’m always looking for safer ways to store leftovers for lunches the next day. Stainless steel and glass won’t leach chemicals into foods, unlike plastic storage containers, but glass can break, which can limit it’s usefulness when you [...]

Natural Cures for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) in Cats… and People, Too

Last weekend, our 16-year old cat announced to me that she had a urinary tract infection by jumping up onto my freshly-laundered white bedspread, deliberately squatting, and dribbling a few drops of bloody urine onto the center of the bed. It was an effective message. I scooped her up and deposited her in the backyard [...]

Perfect Timing for Glorious One-Pot Meals

Reader question: You say that your one pot meals are ready, when you smell  the aroma then you have a 3 minute warning.  I lost my sense of smell about 4 years ago.  So how can I tell when it is ready? ~ Kathy M., Chesterton, IN Great question, Kathy. There are many like you [...]

Intestinal Absorption Map: How Your Intestines Absorb Nutrients

Again today I heard from another client whose physicians wanted to remove a section of their bowels in hopes this move would clear up their gut distress. My advice is always to hold on to all of your insides! Every piece of the human body has a specific function and reason for being there in [...]

Do You Have IBS?

The term Irritable Bowel Syndrome, or IBS, gets tossed around so frequently that I find many who think it means something profound about their condition. I hate to break it to you, but a diagnosis of IBS doesn’t mean much in the medical world. For starters, anything that is called a “syndrome” is by definition [...]