Eating Well
Eat Grapefruit for Good Health and Weight Loss
If you are serious about wanting to improve your health, grapefruits are one of many foods you should consider adding to your regular diet.Grapefruit is a fantastic fruit that supplies the body with plenty of essential nutrients including vitamin A, B1, B3, B5, B6 an...
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Better Blood Pressure with a Banana?
For those who suffer from high blood pressure, finding ways to lower it can be a challenge. From stress management to leading a healthier and more active lifestyle, there are a variety of ways to help lower your blood pressure. Nutrition, of course, is an integral part of...
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Healthy Eating In The Workplace
We all know the feeling. Youre pressed for time in the workplace and working on that very important project all while ignoring your stomach, which is growling so loudly that your co-workers think you have a pet hiding under your desk. Even though youre super busy, when i...
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Go Nuts for Nuts: Reasons To Eat 'Em
That crunch! The sweetness, the satisfaction…Theyre a worthy snack if there ever was one. Nuts are versatile, too. You can grind them up and spread them over a sandwich. Smoke and salt them for a hearty snack. Turn them into milk, yogurt, ice cream…Whats not to love?...
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Could Food Memories Help You to Lose Weight?
Interesting new research published in the recent issue of the journal PLOS One may hold potential keys to weight loss. But its not a new drug or even a diet fad; in fact, weve had the power within us all along…its our memory of past meals.According to the researchers who ...
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Are Organic Foods Better For Your Teeth?
We all know that organic foods are good for us: they are free from the harmful pesticides that are routinely sprayed onto most crops. However, not many people know that eating organic could also be better for their teeth.Organic foods are richer in the vitamins and minera...
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Unjunk Your Junk Food: Sapporo Ichiban
Worst Offender of the Month: Sapporo IchibanFor less than a dollar a package, it might have been your staple food throughout college or the first year of living on your own, but once you see what’s inside the cheap little bags, you’ll wish that you spent more o...
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Trans Fat
Trans fat, or trans fatty acids, were created to replace traditional fats used in cooking and food preparation such as lard, palm oil, coconut oil and butter. The earliest product that hit the market was Crisco shortening in 1911 as a means to provide an economical alternative...
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The Love Food Diet
Eating is a whole body experience; it is physical, emotional and pleasurable. Food appeals to all of our senses. Taking food into our bodies is deeply intimate; we allow it INSIDE of ourselves. Our diet literally becomes part of us; builds and fuels every cell in our body. Th...
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5 Tips For A Healthy Holiday
With the holiday month officially here, it’s time to start thinking about everything that comes with it. Shopping, parties and cocktails – oh my! With all of that holiday cheer being passed around it can definitely be a challenge to maintain healthy habits.Before yo...
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Immune Boosters For Kids (And Adults)
Your immune system is your bodys natural defense against illness and disease. Keeping your immune system healthy will ensure that your body will know exactly what to do when you are exposed to a cold, the flu, or other infections. It also knows exactly what to do if you ...
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Artificial Colors & Health Concerns
Pretty red and green frosted Christmas cupcakes grace the bakery window, so moist and creamy you can hardly wait to sink your teeth into them. Snowflake-shaped cookies glisten with blue and white sparkles. Nearby, stacked boxes of candy canes swirling with red and white, among...
Read more...Complete Idiot's Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition
Eating a plant-based diet is truly easier than ever. With cookbooks galore, YouTube videos, and online support, everything is right at your fingertips. But, that doesnt mean it is isnt confusing. And, with the abundance of vegan treats and convenience foods now available, i...
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The Dangerous Effects of Caffeine
As a young adult, coffee ruled my life. I didn’t mean for it to happen. I didn’t even like coffee. But having to be at my desk at the print shop at 7 a.m. was not easy for this night owl. At first I simply enjoyed the aroma from afar. Then, I’d pour myself a ...
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Raw Food for Real People by Rod Rotondi
MEDITERRANEAN BURGERS WITH PESTO SAUCE I originally created these in the form of croquettes at my first raw restaurant, Rod’s Wrap & Juice Bar. Some of my customers dubbed these my “meatballs” because they have a very meaty consistency. The rich basil-infuse...
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Food for Thought
Inspiring your loved ones to eat healthy foods can be challenging. Children can be resistant to trying new things, particularly veggies or multi-ingredient recipes. Adults tend to respond to their favorite foods based on past experiences associated with a spec...
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Packaged Sunshine
Remember studying photosynthesis in biology class? Plants use chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants and algae, to obtain energy from light. Nature, in her brilliance, has made chlorophyll very user-friendly by supplying easily-assimilated oxygen and phytonutrient...
Read more...Grawnola is the New Granola
Alisa Fleming ~ “Granola” is a term that is often associated with health nuts and hippies, but modern day granola is usually anything but healthy. Loaded with sugars and vegetable oils, most brands will leave you with that dreaded sugar cereal after-crash. In recent ...
Read more...Am I Lactose Intolerant?
Q: Ashley - I am reading your book, Go Dairy Free. These are SOME of the symptoms I have after I eat something that contains milk ingredients: severe bloating (I look like Im 5 months pregnant shortly after I eat), headaches, mouth sores, gassy, and bathroom problems. Ive ...
Read more...Low Fat, Low Sugar, Low Sodium Salad Dressings
Alisa Fleming ~ Several years ago, I gave up purchasing salad dressing as none had ingredient lists that I felt comfortable paying for. Even many of the organic and “all-natural” brands use soybean oil instead of good quality oils, and seriously, what is with all of the ad...
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Real-Life Pasta with Veggies
Weve all been there. At a restaurant with no vegan options, eyes scanning the menu. Realizing that there is *nothing* that is specifically vegan or even vegetarian on the menu. We end up asking for a pasta with some sort of tomato-based sauce with veggies - the ...
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Sugar-Free Vanilla Ice Cream
As promised, heres my printable guide and Question and Answer post for baking with sugar-free sweeteners! Thank you for submitting your sugar-free baking questions through Facebook and email. But first, a dessert! Its a healthy vanilla ice cream recipe thats sugar-f...
Read more...How to Eat Healthy on a Road Trip
Yesterday, during me and Matt’s 8 hour drive from Bald Head Island to D.C., I was bemoaning the fact that America makes it so hard for people to eat healthy while on the road. On the way to the beach on Friday, I had packed us some food, but coming back yesterday, we had t...
Read more...Four Fiber-Rich, Dairy-Free Cereals
Alisa Fleming ~ For July and August, Attune Foods enlisted three weight loss bloggers to lead the way in their Summer Breakfast Swap program. Jess, Kenlie and Mel are doing an eight-week vlog series where they swap their regular breakfast for Uncle Sam cereal, and share th...
Read more...New CLIF CRUNCH® Granola Bar
July, 2011 – CLIF CRUNCH® and CLIF MOJO® are expanding their snack bar lineups with new flavors that are now available at grocery, natural food and mass merchandise stores nationwide. CLIF CRUNCH, the crunchy granola bar made with organic ingredients, has introduced ...
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REAL fruit, sugar-free popsicles
Storebought popsicles are colored-flavored-watered junk - basically. Yes, if the girls are at a party or school event and there are neon popsicles circulating, I dont say no. There arent many school and party foods that are vegan-friendly, after all. But, at home...
Read more...Pop-Tarts – Made for Fun. Really?
Tonight as I watched a recorded TV show (that ran during prime time), I came across a commercial about Pop-Tarts. It had these happy looking cartoon features (kids and mom), lots of colors, most of which looked like candy and then the tag-line for the Pop-Tarts was “Made f...
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quick post: homemade chocolate hints
Some time ago I made some really yummy (and really easy) homemade chocolates … and now that I feel pretty comfortable with it, when I have all the messy ingredients on hand, I will just make a big project out of it and play with a few different flavors at one time. ...
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Picnic food recipe roundup
I realize that it has been a little while since I posted a recipe. It isnt that Im holding out on you guys! It is simply that Im in somewhat of an uninspired patch with food at the moment. Im spending my mental cycles on clearing out my chattery brain by means of nature hikes ...
Read more...Live Food Bar in Toronto = AMAZING!
Live Organic Food Bar was another Toronto restaurant I was itching to try, thanks to Lisa‘s writings about it, so Matt and I headed there that Sunday morning, the day after the wedding, for brunch. I have to say, from start to finish, this was my favorite meal of the trip....
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Health Benefits of Black Beans How to Cook Black Beans
In other parts of the world, beans are a staple item. In fact, the Brazilian Food Pyramid actually has a section devoted to beans. Why are beans consumed all over the world? Basically, they are really good for you; and they are cheap. The Black bean, or b...
Read more...Check Out The Cherry Mango With A Coupon Code
The Natural Living Blog offers even more information to help you enjoy a healthier more natural lifestyle. Natural and green living is an ever changing subject. There is always something new to learn and new products to check out. On this blog you will find: ...
Read more...Rosemary-Lime Wild Salmon Kabobs
Wild Alaska salmon season is in full swing, and Whole Foods is offering a one-day-only sizzling summer deal on the fillets for $8.99/pound on Friday, July 29, 2011! This is a nationwide sale, and available at all of the U.S.-based Whole Foods Markets. Heres a little info f...
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Strawberries: Super-Hero Or Super-Villain?
by Heather Pilatic, PhD, Co-Director, Pesticide Action Network North America Strawberries are a quintessential summer treat. As with tomatoes, the only time this fruit actually tastes the way it’s supposed to is while in season, and that season is nearly upon us. ...
Read more...Walnuts Are Drugs, Says FDA
Walnuts are drugs, says the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which told Diamond Foods that walnuts may not legally be marketed in the United States without an approved new drug application. This is just the latest example of an out-of-control federal bureaucracy.. ...
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Like Healthy Cereal?
Hello friends! I have some really special giveaways coming up over the next month or so, and I decided to lead off with a giveaway from Attune Foods. Five (5) readers will win free cereal from Attune Foods so you can try this really tasty, made in America, hea...
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Picnic with Tempeh
Practicing yoga is sure to make you more aware of what you think, do, say and eat. For many (including myself), teaching yogic lifestyle and meditation includes sharing the benefits of a healthful vegetarian diet. Many people think going meatless involves foods that...
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Hershey’s Chocolate is Tainted with Child Labor
Image via Wikipedia We don’t eat Hershey products largely because they are not organic. Once you have tasted a truly good, organic chocolate bar, Hershey’s doesn’t even taste good. I did grow up on consuming Hershey’s, and I always dream...
Read more...Mylk Uncookies, veg-friendly wedding
When Matt and I awoke that Saturday, we put on our fancy duds – we were headed to a wedding that morning – and high-tailed it to downtown Toronto in order to stop at Mylk Uncookies before the ceremony. When I read about Mylk Uncookies – an “espresso boutique” serving...
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Canning And Freezing Greens
If I could grow only one thing in my garden, I’d have to choose greens. Now, if I had to narrow that down to a specific variety, I’d be in trouble. But if I could grow just greens, I would have an endless variety—spinach, kale, collards, Swiss chard, beet tops, c...
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