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Why It's So Hard Not to Be Fat and Sick in America
March 1st, 2012I cannot figure out how we can go on believing the nonsense being fed to us (pun intended) about food. Why are we not protesting in the streets at the injustices being put on us in the name of profit? It’s obvious to me that the bottom line of food companies and corporations has become far more important than the collective health of the people buying food.
Why are we not protesting in the streets at the injustices being put on us in the name of profit?
Simple Side Dishes
March 1st, 2012Like many people you try to make healthy meals; but between busy workdays, carting kids around to activities, and doing regular household tasks, a healthy dinner seems impossible to tackle. To prepare an all-around nutritious meal, you need to include healthy side dishes. Off-the-shelf sides like Rice-ARoni, for example, contain nearly half the daily recommended amount of sodium.
Healthy side dishes round out a nutritious meal.
Food Label Blues
March 1st, 2012The most typical move a consumer will make at the grocery store is to pick a product off the shelf, flip it over, and scan the nutritional information. Unfortunately, this is where the inquiry ends. Buyers simply don’t know what they are looking for. Between the ingredients, label claims, and percent daily values, it’s hard to know if you should consume the product at hand.
Learn to decode confusing labels.
The Breakfast Club
February 16th, 2012Often you are too busy in the morning to prepare a large breakfast, so you are forced to either scarf down a bowl of cereal, eat a sugar-packed pastry, or skip breakfast altogether.
Jump start your metabolism in the AM for a fresh start.Nutrition for the Heart
February 1st, 2012Poor nutritional choices compound over time; a highfat, high-caloric diet ignites the potential of obesity and leads to the likely consequences of numerous metabolic diseases—heart disease being one of the terminal stops on your body’s path to total health destruction.
Sound extreme?
Your body is an interlinked chain, and once the dietary fuse is lit, it can set off a fiery domino effect of dangerous diseases.
Rainforest Superfoods: Camu Camu
January 1st, 2012If you were to hold a camu camu berry in your hand, it would look like a large reddish grape. But don’t be fooled by this berry’s small size and familiar appearance; it holds an abundance of antioxidants, phytochemicals, and unrivaled vitamin C content. It also boasts medicinal properties, serving as an analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and emollient.
Wild berries provide potent vitamin C options; and that is just the start.The Alkaline Diet
January 1st, 2012We all seek balance. Many of us attribute the lack of balance in our daily lives to stress, money, kids, indulgence, and other external factors (many of which are legitimate), but we often forget that true balance starts from deep within the body. Believe it or not, one of the strongest factors in regulating our internal equilibrium is basic body chemistry—it’s our pH balance.
Curing Type 2 Diabetes with Food
November 1st, 2011Is the concept of curing type 2 diabetes through diet really such a strange notion? After all, diet was one of the key contributors that got you into this situation in the first place.
Break down the barriers that prevent you from reclaiming your healh and your life.
Create New Beginnings
September 1st, 2011Back to school is the best time to create “new” beginnings for children. Before school starts, sit down with your children and create goals for the year ahead. These goals might include achieving certain grades, participating in sports and music, or practicing certain levels of personal hygiene (especially important for teenagers).
9 tips for teaching children how to make nutritious choices
