Healthy Food

For a healthy gut it all comes down to good gut flow and gut bacteria. With every meal we eat we are feeding roughly 100 trillion bacteria. Research continues to come to light about how our gut flora and bacteria affects other aspects of our health, like mood and weight. Our gut bacteria begins to ...click here to read more

Don’t let the side effect of smelly urine turn you off asparagus, it packs many essential vitamins and nutrients that your body needs. Let’s further explore the nutritional value of asparagus along with how it can improve our health. Nutritional value of asparagus First and foremost asparagus contains virtually no fat and it’s very low ...click here to read more

It’s hot, it’s humid and sticky! Sometimes the days of summer can bring on serious heat and so the goal is to stay as cool as a cucumber to get by. There are numerous ways we can stay cool in the summer. From wearing lighter clothing, to dipping our toes in a pool these are ...click here to read more

Best part of your trail mix? Is it the nuts, seeds, shredded coconut (unsweetened, please!) or those plump juicy raisins? We know the unsalted nuts, seeds and coconut are great for our health, but those delicious bites of chewy goodness – raisins – pack quite a nutritional punch as well. So don’t be shy about ...click here to read more

Did you ever notice, how when you cut a cabbage in half along its core, you often see the thick white stem in the center and the white arms radiating outward like a crab? I find this very symbolic. I’ll tell you why. We all know the crab can move in any direction. And so ...click here to read more

Although fall means the days will get cooler and shorter, those harvest vegetables are now in season – and they have so many health benefits to offer. One vegetable, in particular, packs a punch when it comes to providing you with your daily intake of vitamins and keeping you healthy right through the winter. This ...click here to read more

Pineapple already has so much going for it. It’s delicious, of course, and inherently summery. A cooling treat on a hot day and a nice change of pace from apples and oranges. But did you know that this healthy food also has impressive health benefits? Here are the Top 5 reasons to add this healthy ...click here to read more

Experts have suggested many different causes for obesity, focusing on a lack of healthy food in our diets and lifestyles that keep us sedentary. But here is one possible culprit you probably hadn’t considered: Antibiotics. According to Scientific American, 70 percent of the antibiotics produced each year in the United States are actually given to ...click here to read more

Did you know that if everyone over the age of 50 followed their grandmother’s advice, thousands of lives would be saved every year? According to the University of Oxford’s Comparative Proverb Assessment Modelling Study – published in the British Medical Journal – an apple per day could keep the doctor away after all. In fact, it could ...click here to read more

Golden arches. A white-haired colonel. A girl with red pigtails wrapped in blue ribbons. Though seemingly harmless enough, such fast food branding may be affecting your ability to experience happiness, according to new research. In the study, recently published in the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal, the University of Toronto looked at how people ...click here to read more

Did you know that inside industrial hatcheries, eggs are routinely injected with small amounts of an antibiotic used to treat a myriad of bacterial infections? Well, the practice is allowed in organic production, too, and could lead to the occurrence of superbugs in the future, according to a new Consumer Reports study republished in Mothers ...click here to read more

We see traces of pesticides in our everyday living environment. They’re in our soil. They’re in our water supply. Now, there is evidence that suggests that these toxic chemicals can be found on our healthy food, too. In the last two years, almost half of all fresh organic produce tested in Canada contained pesticide residue, ...click here to read more

How often do you pull a frosty bag of meat out of the freezer, only to realize you have no idea how old it is? And should you let that bother you? Food experts say that the duration of freezing has no effect on how safe the food is to eat. While the taste and ...click here to read more

I’m usually not one to say “I told you so,” but under the circumstances, I’m too fired up by the historical event that just occurred this past Thursday to bite my tongue. So today I say, without hesitation: I told you so, FDA! In response to a plethora of scientific research, the FDA no longer ...click here to read more