I’m hungry… what should I eat? Low fat? Low sodium? Low carb? High protein? When did eating get so complicated? It hasn’t always been like this. We ate in-season food from our local area and we cooked the recipes our mothers or grandmothers taught us to make. We didn’t calculate the number of calories we ate or grams of carbs or fat. We ate…
Are you that type of a person who has gotten stuck with fried food? You are not alone, as many people are finding it pretty tough to ditch fried foods for better options amidst the buzz created by escalating cases of obesity in society. Here, we look at ways you can make fried food healthier for better health results. 1. Try Using Olive…
January. As the kick-off month of a new year comes to its end, people bust out their new year’s resolutions in hopes of starting the year right. Fresh start. Clean slate. Since most resolutions are about the thing you SHOULD do, we flipped that and just listed down the things you should avoid to make your life better this year. 1. Leaving clean-up…
Every single day, whether you are aware of it or not, you are consciously creating your experience. You are in the process of creating that which you desire over and over again. In order to become a conscious creator, you need to know where you are and where you are going. Let’s call those points “A” and “B.” Whenever we travel to new…
30 Families, 24 Countries, 600 Meals - One Extraordinary Book. In Hungry Planet, Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio present a photographic study of families from around the world, revealing what people eat during the course of one week. Each family's profile includes a detailed description of their weekly food purchases; photographs of the family at home, at the market, and in their community;…
Work and various lifestyles are putting a strain on our memory. Fortunately, there are some foods that are great for our memory and overall brain health. It seems we've left the healthy life in exchange for digital slavery. Computers, smartphones and various devices have taken over the world. We've lost our ability to live at optimal health. Well, maybe we're not completely lost,…
Reducing food waste in your home is one of the best things you can do to minimize the effect you have on the environment. It will not only mean that overall less food needs to be produced. It also means reducing the carbon footprint of food manufacturing as well as reducing other negative environmental side-effects of food production. When you reduce food waste,…
For the first 5000 years of civilization, humans relied on foods and herbs for medicine. Only in the past 50 years have we forgotten our medicinal "roots" in favor of patent medicines. While pharmaceuticals have their value, we should not forget the well-documented, non-toxic and inexpensive healing properties of whole foods. The following list is but a sampling of the health benefits from…