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Are you like millions of Americans who bought into the lipid hypothesis myth? You know, the one that says that saturated fat causes heart disease and is like poison to your body? Did you abandon the way your great-grandmother cooked, ...

  Before the birth of the industrial cosmetic industry, people found other ways to improve their skin. Perhaps they realized that after continually handling meat in the kitchen, the skin on their hands was softer and smoother. Or perhaps they ...

Forget all those negative connotations you might have heard over the years.  You might have been led to believe it is unhealthy, dirty, sticky or just plain gross. None of those things are true about today’s lard. Around my homestead, ...

Growing up on the farm we made lard in an iron kettle over an open fire. That’s the old-fashioned way to melt pig fat. You had to watch it constantly and keep the fire hot. Too hot and you would ...

October 19, 2012 Making lye soap the old fashioned way, using wood ash lye water and fresh lard, and adding natural fragrances. Previous Video

I knew six of my eight great-grandparents—all six lived into their late eighties or early nineties. I knew all four of my grandparents—three of the four lived into their nineties, and one still lives at 91. Were my ancestors health ...