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Wishing you a happy and healthy Earth Day! I hope you take the opportunity to appreciate Mother Earth and do a little good for your body by buying local, eating less meat, biking or walking more often, making more of your food and using a reusable watter bottle.  Share with me on Facebook, Twitter, or as a [...]

I’ve been meaning to write about the Paleo Diet for quite sometime. I am asked about my thoughts on it almost daily but I guess I had sort of hoped that the fascination and popularity would fade away over time, as is the fate of most fad diets. Paleo, however, continues to hang on tight [...]

It’s 6pm and despite it being much easier to swing through the drive through or pick up pizza, you’ve worked hard to shop, plan and prepare a healthy dinner for your kids. Good work! There is however, that feeling in the air as you are asked “what’s for dinner” by hungry faces, that an all-out [...]

You can buy all the healthy food you want, but if you prepare it wrong, you lose all the nutrients. Air, light, water, acid, alkali, heat, time, and enzymes can all make fruit and vegetables lose nutrients. But all of these things can either be minimized or accelerated depending on how long the food took [...]

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I really am loving infographics right now. I came across this one, which nicely puts calories into perspective. I think the most important takeaway is how despite being very nutrient dense, fruits and vegetables are incredibly low in calories. It isn’t difficult to burn off calories from fruits and [...]

Lately, I’ve been a little obsessed with “infographics”. Wikipedia defines infographics as ”graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present complex information quickly and clearly”. I completely agree. I mean, isn’t it far more enjoyable to read the statistics and information in a flowing, colorful chart with pictures and fun fonts than to read [...]

Simple dietary fixes can help lower high cholesterol. Everyone from your doctor to your mother to those ubiquitous Cheerios commercials has probably warned you about the dangers of high cholesterol. The phrase gets thrown around all the time, but how many of us actually know exactly what high cholesterol is? You may be surprised to [...]

The facts on probiotics and how to incorporate them into your diet. Have you ever taken a round of antibiotics and been left with some unpleasant gastrointestinal side effects? Antibiotics are sort of a necessary evil; they are important and powerful medicines that fight bacterial infections, by killing or preventing the reproduction of harmful bacteria. [...]

Find out how much caffeine you’re really consuming with this handy chart. When you’re sleep-deprived, stressed, and in need of help to get through the day, what do you do? Grab a large Dunkin’, and perhaps add a “turbo shot” for an extra boost? Or pick up an energy drink or shot from the nearest [...]