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Cooking in the microwave may save you time but does it keep you from getting all the nutrients needed? Heating in general has some impacts on the loss of some nutrients in foods. Microwave heating has an even greater number of nutrients lost while cooking. When food is cooked in water, boiling water causes some [...]

When you go into the refrigerator and grab something that says it’s already expired, chances are you go ahead and smell it. Most likely if you don’t smell anything foul, it’s good, right? Wrong. There are different meanings for food labels and people should be aware of what those meanings are. “Expiration” date means that [...]

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You and Fat

Including fat in your everyday diet can lead to consequences effecting your overall health. It can increase triglyceride levels in your body, which are not good for you and can lead to various health issues. Fat makes your blood thicker and increases your chances of developing high blood pressure which leads to all sorts of [...]

You know how there are “The seven deadly sins”? Well there are also “The seven bodily sins”. There are always pros and cons to what our bodies take in for just about  just about everything and anything you can possibly think of. There are certain things that you should reduce or eliminate altogether because they [...]

Health, according to the WHO (World Health Organization) is “a state of complete physical, mental, or social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. According to the Nutrition and Diet Therapy, it is “the Optimal human fulfillment and productivity-quality of life” and according to the Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine “health is the [...]

There are a couple of rules that we can follow on a daily basis on our way to start a healthy lifestyle. These are not huge steps that will cause us to completely jump out of the rhythm of our current lifestyle, but a few thoughts to keep in mind throughout the day. First and [...]

Milk is probably the most essential liquid substance that we start consuming as soon as we come out of the womb. But is it really as good for you as everyone says? In order to digest the sugar in milk we need to produce lactase which 20% of the population does not. We usually make [...]

I have heard the word before but never actually knew what it was. Gluten is a combination of the proteins, gliadin and glutenin and it is found mostly in rye, barley and wheat. Most people don’t really know about it because most people’s bodies can tolerate it and well if there isn’t any affects, most [...]

Do you ever find yourself wanting to pull your hair out of your head because your little one doesn’t want to eat anything remotely healthy? I’ve been there many times and let me tell you, it isn’t pretty. There was a point where my son wouldn’t even eat unless it was junk food. I was [...]