Southern California Secret Diet Club's Blog (4)

Okay. I admit it. Like most people I've ever known, I have a library full of books in my home that I have not read from cover to cover. With the best intentions, I buy a book and read the first several chapters totally engaged. Then, life diverts my attentions to more pressing details and the book that would have been the end-all-be-all has been shelved, with all the others. A few years ago, I bought a book from Jamba Juice ( I think) by Dr. Bernard Jensen who IS the end-all-be-all when it come… Continue

In a continuing effort to find my place on the earth, I have updated my website at JenniferJonesMedia.com to reflect the work I do with the socially conscious. Check out! There's awesome video slideshows of some recent event shoots I did in LA with some really cool cause-driven folks. Continue

ATTENTION Earth Balance lovers! It seems, for reasons untold, that TJ's has discontinued the original Earth Balance spread and will only carry the more expensive, less dense whipped, albeit organic, butter spread. IT tastes the same, melts the same, but you get a lot less and spend a lot more sweet moolah $$. Just an FYI. I don't know if Earth Balance has discontinued production or if we will still be able to buy the original version at Whole Foods. Thanks! Jennifer Continue

Their is a huge difference between wheat and gluten. Eating gluten is like eating peanut shells. The hull of the wheat is there protect it from the elements, sun, wind, rain, before it sprouts. The hull is made of a very strong protein called gluten that is water-insoluble. It's like a little rain coat for the wheat. When the wheat is harvested with the hull still on it, it is all ground together, which produces a greater yield. When we eat gluten, food starch, flour, wheat, etc, (unless it's… Continue