Healthy Eating
Vegetarian Restaurants Are Taking Over: PETA Picks Top 10 Most Vegan Friendly Cities
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has released its annual list of the most vegan friendly cities in the U.S. Non-vegetarians take note—some of these vegetarian restaurants are highly influential, and may be impacting the flavors and health profile of menu...
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The 7 Healthiest Beans, Grains & Legumes
Stocking up your pantry with healthy staples is always a good idea. The more healthy food options we have on hand, the less likely we are to binge on Pringles. Right? Fortunately, there are plenty of healthy and tasty options in the dried goods category to include into y...
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How To Get More Fiber
Where do you get your fiber? You probably know you should be eating more fiber; we hear it all the time. Its benefits are numerous and well-documented: it reduces cholesterol, lowers blood pressure, helps manage weight, balances blood sugar and keeps you regular. It can e...
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Increase Fertility by Eating and Avoiding the Right Foods
Congratulations! You have decided to start a family and are looking for some fantastic tips on how to boost your fertility naturally with foods. Well, you have come to the right place. The truth is your diet can play a major role in your fertility, as it has the ability t...
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Why is Breakfast Important?
I hate to tell you this, but your mother is right. Breakfast actually is the most important meal of the day. And oddly enough, if there is one thing that tends to be a struggle with most clients I see, it’s definitely breakfast.Breakfast in the Western world is under...
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"Riskiest Meats" for Foodborne Illness Outbreaks Identified
The meats posing the greatest human health risks from foodborne illness threats are chicken and ground beef, according to rankings released by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.In a study, entitled “Risky Meat: A Field Guide to Meat & Poultry Safety,”...
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5 Red Carpet Popcorn Recipes for Oscar Night
Hollywoods biggest night is Sunday when the celebs take to the red carpet for the 85th annual Academy Awards. If your house is anything like mine when it comes to movies, watching the Oscars is tradition (and because it always falls just around my birthday, its an even mo...
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Want Happiness? Eat More Fruits & Veggies
Remember when your mom used to tell you to eat your veggies? Well, apparently she was onto something. According to a 2008 UK study, with each serving of fruits and vegetables one consumes, the happiness bar rises. In other words, the little blue pill we’ve been looking for is ...
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Chilled To The Bone? Eat These Warming Foods
February marks the dead of winter for some. Common side effects include a constant runny nose, cold hands and feet and a nagging internal chill. Aside from barricading yourself inside a cozy cabin for five months what can you do to warm up? Certain foods are considered thermog...
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Surviving Super Bowl Sunday
Sports fans across America are happy to see the calendar month turn from January to February. Ah, the much anticipated first week of February, the culmination of the football season - its almost Super Bowl Sunday!Super Bowl Sunday is representative of a lot of things...
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Berries Reduce Heart Attack Risk In Women
A newly published Harvard study shows that eating three or more servings of blueberries and strawberries each week can reduce a womans heart attack risk up to 33 percent!The study of 93,600 women found that those who had the highest consumption of berries had the most sig...
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Pickle Like a Pro! 7 Tips to Home Fermenting
A staple method in food preservation for ages, pickling not only keeps food edible for long periods of time, but it also infuses it with healthy bacterial flora—which plays a crucial role in our digestion.With excessive antibiotic use widespread in Western medicine and co...
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DIY Condiments: Ketchup, Mustard, Mayo & More...
If you were born some time in the last half-century, chances are your refrigerator is full of condiment jars, bottles and bizarrely shaped hybrid containers that may or may not squeeze. Yum.These mysteriously addictive gelatinous add-ons that we glop on to all of our favo...
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12 Reasons to Give Meatless Monday a Try
If you hadnt yet heard of the popular campaign called Meatless Monday, you likely discovered it when the USDA made recent headlines for its support and sudden change of heart about it.After a company spokesperson said that the USDA encourages its employees to observe...
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3 'Big Impact' Nutrition Tips
If health is on the top of your priority list this year, these nutrition tips are a sure way to start your year off on the right foot. With each new year, we are given an amazing opportunity to reflect on the previous year and start setting new goals for the upcoming one...
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Would You Eat Monsanto's 'Healthy' Soybean Oil?
Monsanto, the Missouri-based biotech seed and chemical company, has received approval from the USDA for its newest genetically modified soybean varieties intended to produce healthier soybean oils.More than 90 percent of the soybeans grown in the U.S. are genetically...
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Five Tips To Avoid Hypoglycemia
Experiencing a hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) reaction can be a cause for concern in itself, but it can also be a sign of more serious things to come. The result of excess insulin secreted into the bloodstream, hypoglycemia causes blood sugar levels to drop dramatically a...
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Can Superfoods Give You…Superpowers?
Once again, summers blockbuster movies emphasize our favorite cultural phenomenon: The superhero. But have you ever noticed that theres one rather important aspect to our superfriends that never seems to get addressed: What exactly do superheroes eat? Perhaps it remains a...
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Acrylamide
In 2002 researchers from the Swedish National Food Authority made a surprising discovery and shocked many people when they demonstrated that a known toxic compound was found in everyday foods; a compound that was not present due to some industrial accident or contaminatio...
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Herbs That Balance Blood Sugar
There are many approaches you can take when dealing with your diabetes treatment plan. A type I diabetic must be on insulin, a type II diabetic may be able to control or reverse their diabetes through diet and lifestyle changes. Both conditions can benefit from adding herbs or...
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Savvy Back To School Meal Planning
It’s time to go back to school and parents are scrambling to find foods that their kids will eat (and not trade or throw away) at lunch and snack time. The name of the game is convenience – food and snacks that can be packed with the least amount of fuss or muss. Compani...
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Snacks For Diabetics
Finding great tasting, low carbohydrate snacks can be a challenge sometimes. Being a type 1 diabetic myself, I know how hard it is to find snacks that don’t increase my blood sugar much and do not require me to take insulin.Here are some ideas for good, nutritious snacks ...
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Prevent Foodborne Illnesses
According to the CDC, each year, 1 in 6 Americans gets sick by consuming contaminated foods or beverages.The fact is that the risk of food borne illnesses increases in the summer when temperatures are warmer and people are more likely to be cooking outside at picnics, bar...
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Is Buying Organic Worth It?
“Is buying organic food worth it?” This is a major debate I hear amongst new moms. “I didn’t eat organic and I’m fine.” Maybe you are fine today, right now. But foods you ate when you were growing up weren’t treated as heavily with chemicals, nor was the soil. These chemicals...
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Why You Should Eat Like A Diabetic
If you’ve been diagnosed with any type of diabetes, you are usually taught to eat a specific way. The way diabetics are encouraged to eat is to try and minimize the blood sugar spikes that occur throughout the day. But why wait until you have diabetes to follow these rules? T...
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Beans, Beans, Good For The Heart
Which traditional food is inexpensive, packed with fiber and protein and can lower your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and colon cancer? Beans!Beans are classified as legumes, a category which also includes peas and lentils. With over 13,000 species, the nutritional pow...
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Blood Sugar and Mood
There are many benefits to balancing your blood sugar. When your blood sugar is on a roller coaster ride all day, so is your mood. Ever wonder why you get irritable and frustrated when you skip a meal? Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) is the reason behind this and something you ...
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Health Benefits of Avocados
It’s no secret that avocados are extremely nutritious, but their health benefits are much more plentiful than most people may be aware of. This fruit is also unbelievably versatile and choc full of nutrients. Avocado FactsBorne of the Persea americana tree, fou...
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The Truth Behind A Gluten Free Diet
To the consumer the latest fad around the grocery and health food stores seems to be the words “Gluten Free.” Gluten free chips, gluten free cakes, gluten free cookies…this has become the new buzz words printed all over packaged foods. But what exactly is gluten and does it re...
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Unjunk Your Oscar Party
This Sunday, Hollywood awards its finest in the biggest celebration of the year, the Academy Awards. Celebrate the Oscars by hosting your own party. While elegance is a priority, serve up hors d’oeuvres and drinks that are both decadent and good for you.Dark chocolate is ...
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Chocolate For Your Heart
Chocolate doesn’t just come in heart shaped boxes, but it might also be good for your real heart, too. The beneficial effects of chocolate are likely due to its antioxidants, called polyphenols, which may help to protect against heart disease.1,2The ORAC score (Oxygen Rad...
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Umeboshi Plums Health Benefits
A diet high in acidic foods, as is prevalent in North America with so many meals consisting of refined sugars and red meat, is at the core of many symptoms such as fatigue, digestive imbalances, emotional imbalances, and anxiety. In fact, an overly acidic diet can cause inflam...
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Unjunk Your Super Bowl Party
Super Bowl parties are practically synonymous with super-sized snacking of the oh-so-unhealthy variety. But here’s the thing: it doesn’t have to be quite as unhealthy as most people make it. With a few tips from our book, Unjunk Your Junk Food, you can snack on your favorite t...
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How To Eat Healthier + Healthy Recipe
Eating healthier is a popular topic. I am asked often by my clients how they can eat healthier, and for some ideas about healthy foods to lose weight, particularly each new year.I believe we need to change the way we think about eating, as well as making healthy food choi...
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Are You Meeting Your Nutrition Requirements?
I’m not a picky eater, but I am a father and I know that there are certain things my kids (and probably yours too) aren’t going to eat. Regrettably this also applies to a lot of adults and the unfortunate side effect is that too many of us are not meeting our nutrition r...
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Health Benefits of Sesame Seeds
Most people probably don’t think of sesame seeds as anything other than decoration on an assortment of baked breads, but these tiny seeds provide a multitude of nutritional goodies that our bodies use to feed cells and keep us healthy. The most common are white and black...
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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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Benefits Of Turmeric & Other Spices
Nowadays, a variety of herbal remedies – tinctures, supplements, lozenges, and others – are found in most households; they aren’t yet as popular, but spices are gaining merit as wonderful and healing medicinal ingredients. A few common spices which are currently receivin...
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Medicinal Mushrooms: The Fascinating Fungi
Medicinal mushrooms and their healing properties have fascinated me ever since I watched Paul Stamets speak on TED Talk. His topic was “6 ways mushrooms can save the world.” His passion and excitement for these forest fungi got me excited, and I started reading, research...
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Why Coconut Oil Is Good For You
Supermodel Miranda Kerr recently credited coconut oil as one of her beauty secrets, sending sales of the healthy oil soaring in the UK. The Victoria’s Secret angel says that she uses it daily in her cooking and applies it topically to her skin and hair.Her sta...
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