Miracle Noodle Blog

What's the Healthiest Flour to Cook With?
Perhaps you read the Miracle Noodle blog entitled, “What’s the best oil to cook with?” But just in case you missed it, here’s a quick primer: cooking with vegetable oils: bad cooking with pure tropical fruit oils (coconut, palm): good cooking with olive oil: good (as long as it’s low heat) cooking with non-oxidized saturated fat (butter, lard, coconut oil): very good When it comes to cooking with flour, the most important thing to take into account is the glycemic load of the flour, meaning, how much will your blood... Read more...
Is Rice OK to Eat if You Have Diabetes?
If you randomly surveyed 100 people and asked them, “Which do you think is healthier: white or brown rice?” there’s a good chance that at least 90 will respond “white.” Have you ever been to an Asian restaurant that offers both white and brown rice? Which do you usually order? Do you mostly choose brown, thinking that it’s the much healthier option? There’s good reason to believe the hype that brown rice is much healthier than white. Marketers of brown rice brands have succeeded in spreading the propaganda that brown... Read more...
Freaky-quick, filling, guilt-free lunch
For those who are pasta-holics and carb-freaks, Miracle Noodle can change your life. Imagine being told that if you keep smoking cigarettes, you won’t live very long. And then a doctor tells you about a healthy cigarette that can actually add yours to your life.   While this might sound like a far-fetched nicotine addict’s fantasy, who would have ever thought there’d be a healthy, zero-calorie, zero-carb pasta that can slash thousands of calories from your diet every month and help you lose weight.   That’s the feeling Lee Tigner,... Read more...
Why is gluten such a problem these days?
The rates of Celiac Disease and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity seem to be rising ever higher? But why? Several thousand years ago, perhaps as long ago as 20,000 to be exact, when wheat was first cultivated, gluten, one of the main proteins in wheat, didn’t seem to be a problem, so why is it now? Today’s wheat isn’t the same as it was when human beings first began to settle down in communities, transforming from hunters-gatherers to agrarian settlers. You don’t have to go back thousands of years, though, to see... Read more...
How to Cook Healthy, Easy and Fast
There are two primary reasons why some people who want to lose weight ultimately fail: the first stems from a rigid belief that in order to eat healthy, one must go on a forager’s diet: eating boring, bland bamboo shoots, sprouts and seeds and other culinary buzzkills. The second reason involves speed. There’s a good reason why the masses of American workers who do not have the luxury of a two-hour Italian-style family lunch instead opt for the convenience of the drive-thru window. Dinner is no exception; there’s no time... Read more...
Healthy desserts for diabetes
Despite what most people may think, diabetics can have their cake and eat it, too. All it takes is substituting high-sugar and high-calorie conventional baking agents with low glycemic offerings. Let’s dive right into some luscious desserts that diabetics can enjoy, guilt-free.... Hot Chocolate To make a healthier, low-sugar version of hot chocolate, you’ll want to find a replacement for conventional chocolate syrup, which, in a small two tbsp. serving size, contains 24 grams of sugar. One of the best replacements is raw cacao, which is the unprocessed form of... Read more...
Why Low-Carb Diets Can be Dangerous
 One of the most common dietary pitfalls low-carb dieters make concerns fat. There are actually two problems that concern fat. First, some low-carb dieters neglect to eat enough healthy sources of fat. Although plenty of vegetables and fruits and lean protein might be consumed, if you do not eat enough healthy sources of fat (avocados, nuts, seeds, coconut oils, raw or organic cheeses, olives, olive oil), you’ll likely have to eat every couple of hours, or worse yet, your health could suffer. Healthy sources of dietary fat play numerous roles... Read more...
What's the Healthiest Oil to Cook With?
The extremely offensive and derogatory insult, “lard ass,” implies that one is most strikingly unhealthy, a ticking-time bomb, perhaps. But could it be that being a lard ass is far healthier than being a veggie butt?   When it comes to healthy cooking, lard lords over veggie oil. It’s far healthier to cook with animal fats and tropical oils than it is to cook with most vegetable oils. Here’s why.... Though lard is comprised of pure, unadulterated pig fat, as long as it has not been oxidized (read: turned rancid),... Read more...
Add Fermented Foods to Miracle Noodle for Digestive Health
What did the Buddhist monk say to the hot dog vendor at the baseball game? “Make me one with everything….” Get it? While a Buddhist monk is more likely to feel the interconnectedness of all things, including a hot dog--more likely, a veggie dog--corny jokes aside, one condiment that the Buddhist monk, or anybody else a few spiritual rungs down the ladder, would be wise to order: sauerkraut...but only if the kraut is fermented. Chances are high that no Major League ballpark offers fermented sauerkraut; most natural grocers and health... Read more...