A healthy lifestyle is a way of living that lowers the risk of being seriously ill or dying early. What changes can you introduce into your daily life that can ensure that you stay happy, fit and healthy?
Summer is well and truly upon us and while it’s oh so tempting to flick the air conditioning on for that instant ‘aaahhhh”, your conscience might take a bit of a lashing. Air conditioning electricity comes from fossil fuels, and most notably coal. With the world relying more and more on air conditioning to keep us cool (you can thank climate change for…
To live a healthier lifestyle, you must reduce the consumption of processed sugar as one of the most important steps towards your goal. Artificial sources or processed sugar in various forms can be unhealthy. Here are ten alternative sources of natural and organic sugar to sweeten your food or drinks. From foods to favorite drinks, manufacturers of foodstuffs use artificial sweeteners to lure…
Being thirty and younger, it’s easy to forget that we will at some point in the not-so-distant future, be fifty. We will all one day wake up and claim the ripe age of five-zero and wonder where the years have gone. With the age milestone seeming so far away, it is easy to forget that as we get older, life often gets harder…
If you haven’t already welcomed this cruciferous vegetable into your diet with open arms, now is the time to start. Don’t let residual childhood feelings of broccoli based fear and loathing keep you from giving this green a chance. If you need some motivation, check out these 5 reasons to eat more broccoli — your body will thank you! 1. Cancer Prevention Broccoli…
Every person has to work to make a living. However, the point is to do what you love, if you want to be truly successful. From having stressful jobs to having a profession that you do not really like or enjoy, sometimes many of us want to just quit our jobs and to do what we love to do. But considering the practicality…
Gallup and Healthways recently released an annual survey that looked into well-being around the globe and there are some interesting things to draw from the survey. The research inaugurated last year and aimed at ranking countries in the realm of five categories did over 146,000 surveys in 145 countries. So in which countries do the happiest people live, according to the results of…
Do you remember those awesome hobbit houses from The Lord of the Rings? It seems that someone has built a sort of hobbit house on a Canadian island. The Haida Gwaii, translated into “the islands of the Haida people”, previously known as the Queen Charlotte Islands, is located on the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Apart from the abundant wildlife and the…
Confused by kale? Flustered by frisée? Use these leafy greens cheat sheet to differentiate your farmer's market finds and learn the nutritional benefits. ...And of course how to select, store and prepare all those lovely green vegetables. Kale: Lacinato and Curly Arugula Collards Belgian Endive Watercress Chard: Swiss and Rainbow Cabbage: Savoy, Rad, Napa, Bok Choy Frisée Spinach Radicchio Turnip Greens Dandelion Greens…