20 Great Holiday Entertaining Tips!
To help you prepare and serve your meals in style! Read more... |
20 Reasons to Go Bananas!
Bananas are filled with so many nutrients, that they are almost the perfect cure for whatever ails you! Read more... |
6 Reasons to Eat Dark, Organic Chocolate
Not many of us need a reason to eat chocolate, but here are the six reasons to only eat dark, organic chocolate. Read more... |
| 7 Reasons to Season While other cultures have often used spices and herbs medicinally, we are only now discovering just how these flavorful additions can not only improve a meal, but impact our health in positive ways. Read more... |
Acid, Alkaline and Inflammation
Instead of taking prescription drugs for arthritis pain and joint stiffness, a few changes in your diet has been shown to alleviate pain and reverse stiffness without any of the risky side effects of chemicals. Read more... |
The Acid Issue
Are you having difficulty losing weight or managing diseases you may have? More and more evidence points towards high acidity in the body's tissues as being a contributing force to these challenges. Read more... |
Agave Nectar, the High Fructose Health Food Fraud
Agave nectar is advertised as a "diabetic friendly," raw, and a "100% natural sweetener." Yet it is none of these. The purpose of this article is to show you that agave nectar is in reality not a natural sweetener but a highly refined form of fructose Read more... |
A GMO Is Not The Latest Car
GMO ingredients have eaten their way into a multitude of items including: cereals, cooking oils, grain products and frozen dinners. Corn and soybeans make up the largest amount of GMO crops. Read more... |
Antioxidant Rich Foods
Organic fresh fruits and vegetables are one of the best sources of antioxidants, helping to deter the negative effects of free radicals in your body. Read more... |
Apitherapy: Health from the Hive
Apitherapy is the use of products from the bee hive to heal a variety of medical conditions and promote health. Read more... |
Ask Dr Coconut
Dr. Bruce Fife a.k.a. “Dr. Coconut” answers questions about coconut, diet, and nutrition. Read more... |
Blanching Vegetables
I love to blanch vegetables because they look amazing and you can really taste the vegetable. Blanching cooks fresh vegetables with out destroying the nutrient dense foods. Read more... |
Candy Colored
Ever look at the dyes in common candies? Here is just a short list of common dyes and their known health side-effects. Read more... |
Cast Iron… The original Non-Stick Cookware!
Well seasoned cast iron skillets and pots are durable, have great bottoms to distribute heat evenly, and fit the budget of any cook. Not to mention, no toxicity, unlike the coated non stick skillets today. Read more... |
CLA - remember this new acronym!
When cattle eat right, beef is incredibly good for you! Grass-fed Beef have high levels of CLA and this article will tell you what you need to know about it! Read more... |
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Coconut and Cholesterol—Study Reveals Facts
Coconut can do wonders for your bad cholesterol levels. Read more...
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Cooking Temperatures for Natural Meat
The best way to ensure juiciness, flavorful, perfectly cooked meat is to use an instant read themometer and to follow these simple temperature guidelines. Read more... |
Did You Know This Is The Healthiest Oil In The World?
Coconut oil is the world's only natural low-calorie fat that increases metabolism and aids the body with burning unwanted fat, even improving thyroid function. Learn more about the fantastic benefits of Coconut Oil. Read more... |
Do You Know What is in your Honey?
Organic honey is carefully extracted and warmed only up to hive temperature -- heat destroys the natural enzymes in honey. Read more... |
Frankenfoods Are Coming To Get You, Ha, Ha!
At least 70% of all processed foods in the U.S. contain some genetically modified ingredients. Here's what you need to know about their potential health effects. Read more... |
Foods to Dye For
What dyes are we eating? What foods are these dyes in? How can they affect us? This article will provide you with some great facts! Read more... |
Your Food Enjoyment Quotient
When was the last time that you allowed yourself to truly enjoy and revel in great food by eating ‘the real thing?’Dare to TASTE real food that has not been genetically modified, chemically "enhanced" or processed and immediately increase your food enjoyment quotient. Read more... |
Four Surefire Ways To Crack The Safe Food Codes
Want to get healthy but think it’s hard? It may be as simple as reading a label. Read more... |
Get a Handle on Food Safety
Food safety is a very serious matter. The main reason why I recommend properly preparing and handling your foods is to prevent food born illnesses. Read more... |
Good Nutrition Important from the Start
Pregnant women who skimp on eating fish may predispose their children to high blood pressure for life, new research suggests. Read more... |
Grilling Seafood
Here's some tips to help you get perfect seafood off the grill this summer. Read more... |
Guess What They Do To Your Table Salt!
High temperature's dramatically alter the chemical makeup of salt. In the process, vital minerals are altered and destroyed. Read more... |
Healthy Cooking Techniques
Several cooking techniques are important to know. They include: Simmering and Sautéing. Read more... |
Herbs & Spices
Herbs & Spices add great flavour to your food and can even have higher antioxidant activity than fruits, vegetables and some spices. Read tips for growing and caring for spices, as well as more information on their health benefits. Read more... |
Honey: Rediscovering Nature's Antibiotic
Honey is a very effective means of quickly clearing even the most heavily infected wounds, without the side-effects and potential overuse of antibiotics. Read more... |
I Can't Believe this is Called "Food"!
This product is a popular snack cake with a cream filling that most of us have eaten…and too many kid’s still eat. Read the ingredients, and then avoid the product! Read more... |
| Irradiation Free Food! As of August 22, 2008 the FDA has approved that spinach and lettuce sold in grocery stores will be irradiated. This is supposedly to kill any pathogens like e coli. Unfortunately irradiation totally destroys irreplaceable cancer and disease-fighting nutrients! Read more... |
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Match Herbs & Foods to Help Bring out their Natural Flavors Here’s a handy guide that will help match foods with the herbs that best complement their natural flavors. Read more...
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Microwave Madness
Seventeen Little-Known Effects Of Your Microwave Oven. Read more... |
Move Over Sugar - Honey is Here!
Folks watching their weight may worry about indulging in honey, which has 60 calories per tablespoon, but there is power in those calories! This article provides great evidence for the health benefits of switchng to honey. Read more... |
Nature’s Natural Food. Is It All It’s Cracked Up To Be?
The protein in egg is the highest quality found in food, containing all nine amino acids essential to healthy bodies. Egg whites contain the purest protein found in any whole foods: scientists use it as the standard to measure all other proteins. Read more... |
The Not so Sweet Truth about Aspartame
Aspartame accounted for more than 75% of all adverse reactions reported to the FDA's Adverse Reaction Monitoring System. Read more... |
Not The Salt Of The Earth!
When table salt is refined, 82 out of the 84 mineral elements are extracted. Why, if these elements are so good for you, do the salt refineries do this? Read more... |
The Oils in Your Foods
Fully hydrogenated oils do not contain trans fat. However, if the word "hydrogenated" is used without the word "partially," that product may contain partially hydrogenated oil. Not all labeling is accurate and the word "partially" may have been wrongfully omitted. Read more... |
The Perfect Cup of Coffee
A Karno of Java Juice talks about her family's incredible products. Read more... |
The Rundown on Vitamins
Despite all knowledge, people still prefer a good well-done steak, sometimes even without a side salad. Knowing the vitamins’ distribution in different foods might “open your eyes” to our body’s needs. Read more... |
The Shelf Life of Produce
This tip from an expert produce manager will tell you which fruits and vegetables make good neighbors in fruit bowls or crispers so that premature ripening and rotting will not take place. Read more... |
Saturate Yourself In the Correct Information and Oils
If you are getting wise to the fact that processed foods are big money and that food processors have not and will not be honest about the health dangers of their foods, then the following will be no surprise to yoU. Read more... |
Seven Reasons to Avoid Farm Raised Salmon
We know that we should be getting Omegas into our diets! But what about the wild vs farmed salmon issue? Over 60% of the fish eaten in the United States is farm-raised. What are some of the things that you should know about man-raised salmon? Read more... |
Slim, Healthy People Eat Fat
Fresh nutrient dense foods, healthy fats (such as coconut oil), and moderate exercise can change lives. Read more... |
| SPIN-Farming You can grow your own shoots this fall. Yes! You can! Get some dried peas, sunflower seeds and popping corn, and grow your own shoots!! It’s easy, especially as we have super simple and fast instructions compliments of SPIN-Farming! Read more... |
Storing Fruits & Vegetables
Follow these tips to prolong the life of your produce. Read more... |
Sweet Suicide
Because high fructose corn syrup mixes easily, extends shelf life and is as much as 20 percent cheaper than other sources of sugar, large-scale food manufacturers love it. However it has a LOT of negative health effects as well. Read more... |
Toxic Sludge: It’s What’s For Dinner
Ask yourself, since no one else will, ‘would I knowingly eat a food that has been irrigated with toxic sludge?” I hope that your answer would be no. Read more... |
The Truth about Chicken
You are what you eat, and you could be eating chicken that has an antibiotic-resistant strain of pathogen. Read more... |
Truth about MSG
Even if a manufacturer tells you there is no MSG in a product, there may be autolyzed yeast, hydrolyzed pea protein, carrageenan, sodium caseinate, enzymes, and a whole slew of other ingredients that contain or create processed free glutamic acid (MSG) during manufacture. Read more... |
The Very Edible Egg
Adding two eggs to the diet suggested by The National Cholesterol Program had no effect on plasma LDL. Read more... |
Wave goodbye to microwaves
Microwaves are part of modern technology: tiny radio waves of electro-magnetic energy, which are ulitized in many helpful ways, primarily for communications. But, when used to warm food, they generate harmful radiation and your food's molecular structure is altered. Read more... |
What Is Your Supermarket NOT Telling You?
Your supermarket, and maybe even your health food store are not telling you something very important: how many ‘Critical Violations’ have they had? Read more... |
What You Don't Know About Mercury Could Kill You
Mercury is a unbelievably toxic substance. A single drop in a large body of water (a lake for example) could deem fish unsafe for human consumption. Read more... |
Where's the Beef in Beef Cubes?
Have a browse through the ingredients on a standard Beef Bouillon Cube -- it can be an eye-opening experience! Read more... |
Why your body needs cholesterol
Cholesterol is needed for proper function of serotonin receptors in the brain. Serotinin is the body's natural 'feel good' chemical. Read more... |
Video: The Future Of Food - Genetic Manipulation of Seeds
An in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. Read more & watch video... |
You Want To Go Nuts!
The benefits of eating raw nuts are many! Just a quarter cup of almonds holds nearly a 25% of your needed daily amount of vital nutrients - read this article to learn more about which nuts are great for you! Read more... |
