A Balanced Meal for School Lunch
Fermentation: When Food Gone Bad Is Good for You
Probiotics are absolutely essential to your health and well-being. These little beasties live in your digestive system and help you to properly digest your food. Largely ignored for many centuries, scientists are now discovering that these tiny organism play an essential part in preserving your health. Add probiotics to your daily diet by consuming fermented foods like organic sourdough breads, pickled vegetables, kombucha, yogurt, beer and cheese.
5 Signs You Need a Detox
Toxins enter our bodies on a daily basis from pesticides, herbicides, chemical additives in foods, preservatives, cleaning products, and other sources in our environment. Each of these chemical sources comes in small doses that shouldn’t harm us on their own, but cumulatively, the effects can be disastrous.
Why Fat is the New Black
Fat has gotten a bad rap. We all want to get rid of every single last ounce of it and work hard dieting and exercising to fight that flab. But not all kinds of fat are created equally.
6 Ways to Be Brilliant at Breakfast
Breakfast can be a quick, easy affair that can really set the tone for a wonderful day. Make sure that you get off to a great start by eating healthy, simple meals that will have you performing like a champ and feeling good too. Make sure that you and your family get on the breakfast train and fuel your future.
Why Diets like Paleo are Half-Baked
Sure, it sounds like a good idea at first; our bodies evolved to process the foods our cave-dwelling ancestors could hunt and gather and so shunning all that farming and industry have brought will mean we live healthier, skinnier lives. What has resulted is a kind of carbo-phobia that causes the Paleo enthusiast to run screaming from the room at the sight of a sandwich. But as Paleo swept the nation and more and more research went into the effects of the diet, the disadvantages began to emerge.