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Information found on the Our Natural Life website and Podcasts is meant for educational and informational purposes only. We hope that it might motivate you to make your own health care and dietary decisions, based upon your own research, and in partnership with your health care provider. It should not be relied upon to determine dietary changes, a medical diagnosis, or courses of treatment.

    Merry Christmas from Our Natural Life

    Ornament Hand Made by Jon

    Thank you so much for listening to our Podcasts and reading our blogs in 2009. It has been an awesome year! Your kind words, suggestions, and support mean so much to both of us and we are truly grateful. We have plans for an even more exciting year in 2010. [...]

    ONL052 Preserving the Harvest Tips from Karen K. Brees

    Karen K. Brees , Ph. D., author of The Complete Idiot’s Gude to Preserving Food is the subject of Cathy’s interview today. Her book is a great beginner’s reference on canning, freezing, pickling, and more. The Podcast interview can be played on the device below or downloaded from iTunes, Zune, or Stitcher.

    Karen, a master food [...]

    Disaster and Triumph with Julia Child

    Kitchen Adventures with Clafouti

    This post is part of Fight Back Fridays. Sometimes eating seasonally and preparing your own food can be dangerous.

    It all started innocently enough. Sweet cherries are in season, and I found Julia Child’s recipe for clafouti, or cherry flan. It happened to call for an abundant quantity of seasonal cherries, and Julia [...]

    Nutrient Dense Foods for Healing

    I finished the school year May 26 and attended my son’s wedding rehearsal dinner May 29 (see below) and his mountain wedding on the 30th. The following week I had some major surgery. To prepare my body for quick healing, I wanted to make sure I ate a particularly nutrient dense diet.

    ONL015 – Bone Broths

    “Good broth will resurrect the dead”, or so says a South American Proverb. In this episode we discuss how to make bone broth, the health benefits of bone broths, how they are used by other cultures for the medicinal value, and we conclude with some recipe ideas.

    We discussed the following links in this weeks show;

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    E-Garden Success in Germany

    Jon’s sister Hilary, living in Germany, is an avid gardener and ONL subscriber. Here is an update from a recent e-mail. She hasn’t had the challenges with rabbits that we have. The comment to Jon is due to his childhood aversion to carrots. We love to hear from our listeners. Feel free to tell [...]

    ONL005 – Packing a Healthy Lunch

    Packing a Healthy Lunch

    Processed foods are full of hidden MSG, unlabeled GE foods, and unhealthy transfats. How can you pack a healthy lunch that avoids these dangers? This program explores processed foods commonly used in childrens lunches and advises healthy alternatives.

    Mercola.com: What’s in That? How Food Affects Your Behavior
    We looked at this Mercola article on [...]

    ONL004 – Putting up the Harvest

    Putting up the Harvest – Whether you are growing more food at home than you can eat, bringing it home from your CSA, or purchasing in bulk from your local farmer’s market, you’ll need to preserve it if you want to enjoy during the fall and winter months. Today we’re discussing four methods of food [...]