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Two Great Cookbooks for Sensitive Eaters

 

Need to cook for the gluten-free, the dairy-free, or the vegan? Sisters and food sensitivity mavens Jackie Connelly and Tina Thompson, our newest ethicalDeal bloggers, want to share their two favourite cookbooks. Put them on your wishlist, or pick them up as gifts this holiday season!

Not only is eating with food sensitivities difficult, but cooking for those with them can be even more of a challenge. After all, we should know! Having lived with food sensitivities most of our lives, we were forced to learn to cook for ourselves if we wanted to actually enjoy our food and avoid all those not-so-lovely reactions from foods that don’t agree with us. But, we’re also always on the lookout for inspiration, and so when we come across cookbooks like these two, we can’t help but tell everyone how much we love them!
 
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Maximize Your Workout: Burn Fat Fast with HIIT!

 

By Alexandra Sehmer

 

Dive off!

Photo by Gio JL [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

 

While cardiovascular exercise is essential to shedding fat, increasing metabolism, and general cardiovascular health, the thought of a long, daunting cardio session at the gym is enough to make many of us time-deprived urbanites skip it altogether. However, new fitness trends indicate that HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is a faster and significantly more effective way to get all the benefits of cardio in a fraction of the time.

 

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How to Green Your Laundry Routine

 

Inaugural post from ethicalDeal’s newest guest blogger, Alexandra Sehmer.

Make Your Laundry Routine Greener and Safer

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of soft, clean, fresh-smelling laundry still warm out of the dryer. But is our laundry really ‘clean’? Research shows that traditional laundry detergents are in fact extremely toxic, and that exposure over time can lead to a number of adverse health effects, ranging from minor skin and respiratory irritation to a multitude of cancers.

 

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