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New Heart Data “Scary & Disturbing”
Not meeting heart health criteria? Unfortunately, the chances are pretty good that you aren’t. Recent findings from the American Heart Association characterize the extent to which we are taking care of our hearts in pretty ugly terms. Following the presentation of the latest data at an annual meeting of the… Read More
Recipe Round Up Part II
Last Minute Favorites for a Healthy, Delicious Thanksgiving There’s simply no excuse for not incorporating sweet, delicious, healthy foods into your holiday meal this year. Sure, plenty of Thanksgiving recipes pack in the calories, but forking up some lesser-known ingredients and unsung vegetables could be worth it if it helps… Read More
Juice: The Beverage with Benefits
If you’re a juicer, you’re familiar with the benefits of getting fruits and vegetables in liquid fashion: drinking juice can be a fun, easy way to get your daily servings of fruits and veggies, as well as a way to incorporate some you might otherwise not eat. At the same… Read More
Frozen Fruit Myths…Debunked!
With ample evidence that frozen is just a good as fresh when it comes to getting delicious, healthy fruits into your diet, you might still hear that voice in the back of your head – the one hanging on to the notion of “fresh” – the one that makes you… Read More
Top Soup Secrets: 5 Reasons To Pick Up a Spoon & Start Slurping
If you aren’t including soup in your meal planning, you could be missing out on one of the most comforting, healthy, versatile foods to ever grace your placemat. Soup will have your heart: its hidden gastronomic advantages can warm your insides and pique your taste buds like no other dish… Read More
Fall Colors Offer a Phytochemical Feast
Fall food, fall foliage—autumn provides a bounty of dazzling color! The season is a vibrant reminder that the best way to eat healthy and stay well is to take advantage of the edible rainbow of color that occurs naturally. Consider the bright crimson apple, the fluorescent orange squash…these flamboyant fruits… Read More
Metabolic Disorders: Coming to a Store Near You?
A quick visit to Metabolictyping.com will shine a light on a new wave in eating. “The ‘diet debate’ is over,” it asserts, and “The ‘diet wars’ have ended.” Now, it states, the only diet that we should be on is the one that fits our metabolic type. Has the marketing… Read More
Don’t Be Scared
Why a Bowlful of Candy Can Be a Good Thing Yes, it’s a Halloween tradition, and it protects your front yard from getting TP’d. But if you’ve been working on getting a cupful of blueberries and a bowlful of greens in your diet instead, bringing a bushel of mini Snickers… Read More
This Blog’s No Good For You
Why It’s Finally Time to Learn A Crucial Food Lesson Blogger Pooja Mottl made a pointed observation about our collective health recently in the Huffington Post. Mottl says that despite supermarket recipe cards and countless blogs and articles about food and food preparation, “it’s not happening — we aren’t getting… Read More
A Fervor for Fungi: Mushrooms Cover the Health Bases
As Greg Marley, Maine forager and author of Mushrooms for Health: Medical Secrets of Northeastern Fungi can tell you, mushroom poisoning should not be taken lightly. Many experienced foragers have found out the hard way that mushrooms found in the wild can harbor dangerous secrets that lead to illness, even… Read More
