It was the beginning of May when we heard from an IT’S ALL ABOUT FOOD listener, Donna, to see if we might help her to modify an old family recipe for an apple cake, making it easy, healthier and gluten-free. Plus, she wanted to try using cassava flour. At Responsible Eating And Living Headquarters, we…
Corn tortillas can make me angry. They can also make me quite happy. It depends on what kind they are. Wikipedia says the following about corn tortillas: In North America, a corn tortilla or just tortilla is a type of thin, unleavened flatbread, made from hominy. In Guatemala and Mexico, there are three colors of…
Real Co-founder recently reviewed the new book by Josh Berson called The Meat Question. Read the review called The Future of Meat at TruthDig.com. Caryn also had the opportunity to interview the author Josh Berson on It’s All About Food. Listen to the interview here.
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When I was a kid I loved going to the International House of Pancakes. IHOP was a fun place to get fluffy pancakes topped with gooey sweet syrups. My favorite choice was Boysenberry. I had no idea what a Boysenberry was, but it was fun to say and I loved sugar and their syrup was…
This article is supported by advertising in the form of product links, banners and sponsored articles. We may be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking a link. Thank you for your support! Back in 2006, I was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer with a 10-20% survival rate. I was living a healthy lifestyle,…
The 10th anniversary of my advanced ovarian cancer diagnosis was October 3rd. After learning that I had a 10-20% chance of survival, ten years later I am not only alive and well, but thriving. One of the reasons Gary De Mattei and I founded REAL was to share everything I learned during my personal experience…
The Environmental Working Group recently updated its reporting on Chromium-6 revealing that there are potentially unsafe concentrations of this carcinogenic chemical for two-thirds of Americans. The best way to remove this chemical along with so many other contaminants that may be lurking regularly or periodically in your tap water, get what we use at Responsible…
A cancer diagnosis may mysteriously come out of nowhere. That was true for me when I was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer ten years ago, with a 10-20% survival rate, I’ve learned from my own experience that health and wellness are a function of the mind, the body and the environment. When you want to get…
Season’s Greetings, Responsible Eating And Living launched in July of 2011 and in less than four years we’ve made some extraordinary accomplishments in the plant-based food movement and we show no signs of slowing down in 2015. Let me recap some of our amazing achievements of 2014— The Lone Vegan. At the beginning of…
Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother’s house we go… As a child I loved the images in that song and thought of them every Thanksgiving as my family took off to my grandparents’ home, a one-bedroom apartment in Bayside, New York, where the Matinecock Native American first settled in 2000 B.C. I’d…
This year in addition to all of the FREE recipes and podcasts we continue to offer to you, REAL brings you: The Lone Vegan Preaching to the Fire Our 70-minute FREE documentary which tells the story of REAL founder, Caryn Hartglass speaking to 250 cattle producers about climate change. If you have not watched it…
Early this morning I headed to the Marriott Marquis for the Head and Neck Cancer Congress opening ceremonies where actor Michael Douglas was the featured guest speaker. As an ovarian cancer survivor I am interested in all kinds of cancer research. A few weeks ago, I received an invitation to attend this event, the largest…
Juiced Curly Kale Kills Melanoma Cancer Cells In Culture Please share this information with family and friends. SIGN UP HERE for updates from Bilal Qizilbash on Kale Research at Mississippi College. Master of Science candidate in Biomedical Sciences at Mississippi College, Bilal Qizilbash, summarizes his research breakthrough in a nutshell: Juiced curly kale kills melanoma…
The Passover holiday begins today and so does my ambivalence. I love traditions, story telling, special holiday foods. But I am so torn with the contradictions! The message of Passover, liberation from slavery, is something that resonates strongly for me. Should the holiday just be about the liberation of the Jewish people from slavery in…
There are no coincidences. I met Bilal while renting a car for Responsible Eating And Living. He was managing the car rental office and he asked about my business. I can’t resist an opportunity to talk about food and I told him why I founded REAL and what we do. I had no idea until…
I am a believer in eating whole, fresh, organically grown plant-foods. But in this world where food can come from any part of the globe and labels on food can suggest all kinds of characteristics (organic, low fat, no fat, low sodium, low carb, natural, etc.) knowing what’s healthy can be really confusing. Add on…
“Doctors are Out” OR “I’m not a Health and Wellness Expert, I just play one on TV.” I don’t watch a lot of television. Yesterday morning I was informed about a discussion on The Doctor’s show regarding vegan and raw food so I went to their website and watched the clip. Jillian Michaels was very…
Today’s New York Times had two articles in it that made my chemo-tainted blood boil: U.S. Scrambling To Ease Shortage of Vital Medicine and U.S Rejects Mayor’s Plan to Ban Use of Food Stamps to Buy Soda. In the first article we learn that there has been an increase in shortages in drugs used to…
SAD is the acronym for Standard American Diet and it is sad indeed. The health of Americans is degrading quickly with some predicting that today’s generation of children will not live as long as their parents. Our diet is killing us and the planet – with animal agriculture warming the atmosphere and degrading the…