Meghan Telpner's Blog, page 35
September 4, 2017
Is Activated Charcoal The Latest Victim of Healthwashing?
Have you been seeing this activated charcoal trend popping up? I’ve been in the nutrition biz for a long time and health trends tend to come and go. One minute it’s kale, the next quinoa, the next it’s something else....
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August 28, 2017
Dairy-Free Tiger Tail Ice Cream Recipe
This is it. A homemade, from scratch, food colouring-free and artificial flavour-free, dairy-free, Tiger Tail Ice Cream Recipe. With a little help from the purest essential oils and the mighty food-trending activated charcoal, I recreated this classic ice cream flavour...
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August 21, 2017
Health Benefits of Bone Broth: Simple Bone Broth Recipe
If someone had told me a decade ago that bone broth would become so trendy that across North America we’d be buying it in to-go cups from restaurants and street vendors, I would’ve been simultaneously amused and fascinated by this utopian future....
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August 14, 2017
The Secret to Reading Nutrition Labels
There are many elements to nutrition that people find confusing: what to eat, why some foods are proclaimed amazing one day and detrimental the next, how to figure out the best dietary approach for our needs. But perhaps the most perplexing...
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August 4, 2017
Grain-Free Fruit Crumble Recipe
A variation of my grain-free fruit crumble is featured in my first book UnDiet, called the All Season Fruit Crumble for the very awesome reason that you can literally use whatever fruit is in season to make it – berries, peaches, pears, apples,...
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July 31, 2017
Buckwheat Sweet Potato Burgers
These buckwheat sweet potato burgers are not the big fat, smelly, greasy burgers covered in cheese, bacon, fried onions all cozied up between two slices of spongy white bread. The only thing a burger like that would do for us...
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July 24, 2017
Natural Bug Repellent Recipe
Spending time in nature has a multitude of benefits, but sometimes the outdoors can have its drawbacks – especially if you’re in a spot that is crawling with bugs that love to feast on warm-blooded people like us. Itchy, painful...
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July 14, 2017
Easy Raspberry Jam Recipe
I have always associated jam with old men. Wait. I know this sounds gross, but for my entire childhood, the only person I knew who ate jam was my grandpa Gene. And it wasn’t even jam. It was marmalade. Orange marmalade on toast was my grandpa’s favourite. He used to tell us this joke all the time about a chicken and I can’t remember it but the punch line was “Look at the orange marmalade”- a play on “Look at the orange mama laid” but either way it never really made send to me.
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July 10, 2017
Into The Woods: Healing Benefits of Forest Bathing
Forest bathing: it’s good for you. Now I’m not talking about skinny-dipping or luxuriating in your fancy outdoor shower (also awesome and highly recommended), but the unique health benefits of walking among the forests in nature. In Japan, the practice...
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June 30, 2017
Coconut Water Benefits + A Lemon Lime Coconut Quench Recipe
Our bodies need hydration no matter what time of year it is. During the hot days of summer, it’s easy to feel the urge to grab a cool drink. During chilly and dry winters, even if we’re not sweating, it’s...
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