For years, I had been toying with the idea of eating my vegetables raw. I never quite got around to doing it until I discovered the numerous health benefits I stood to gain! Though eating any vegetables is beneficial to your health, consuming raw vegetables has several additional advantages. As we cook our vegetables, the extreme heat…
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Save The Honeybees: Plant These
It’s no secret that bees are one of the most important insects that make up our ecosystem. Aside from the fact that they give us the well-loved organic sweetener, honey, these winged insects pollinate almost 80% of our plant life. Yes, their hard work is actually one of the reasons why we have food on…
Guide to What’s in Season for Spring
Spring is here! It’s that time of the year again where flowers are in bloom, and all kinds of fresh new produce are available on the market. Wintertime was a season for everything roast and summer will be blessing us with beach barbecues and tropical coolers. These festive seasons make sure our hearts and stomachs…
The Benefits of Eating Mushrooms for Your Health
Mushrooms have a number of health benefits. It was a special food for the royalty in ancient Egypt, and warriors of Rome used to have mushrooms to gain strength. carrying its age-old benefits since a long time. However, now we find mushroom helpful to treat high cholesterol, diabetes, prostate cancer, breast cancer, blood pressure, etc. It…
Raw Chocolate and Why Should You Be Eating It?
It’s estimated that in the UK, each of us eats around 10kg of chocolate every year. That’s more than any other country in Europe. Britain, it seems, is a country of chocoholics. But if you’ve ever taken the time to look at what is actually contained in a normal chocolate bar, you might be surprised…
5 Advantages of a Raw Food Lifestyle
Across the United States, people are turning to the raw food lifestyle as a way to approach better health and wellbeing. And when you consider the statistics, you can’t blame them. With more than 3 out of 5 adults considered overweight and nearly 1 out of 5 experiencing issues with mood disorders, finding the right…
7 Time Saving Tips for Eating Raw
Let’s face it: eating foods in their natural state isn’t always quick. Depending on which raw items and ingredients you love most, you can actually spend quite a bit of time in the kitchen preparing your snacks and meals. That can make this way of eating sometimes difficult. Especially in this day and age, where…
2 Crucial Mindful Eating Tips For Weight Loss
Has there ever been a time where you stuffed your face with junk food or fast food on a weekly or daily basis? Maybe you felt you were overweight and unhealthy, addicted to unhealthy snacks, fried fatty foods, and were mindlessly overeating? It is clear that type of eating isn’t healthy. Yet sometimes knowing this…
Hormone Balance: Superfoods for A ‘Super’ You
Imagine a building with no strong and organized internal foundation. It’s chaotic, isn’t it? That too can happen to your body if your hormones are out of whack! Hormones play a huge role in making sure that your body is in its best shape and condition. These minute chemical messengers regulate your moods, reproductive function,…
Be Happy: Foods to Boost Your Mood
We’ve all heard about how we are what we eat. For those of us that grew up eating a SAD diet (that is, the Standard American Diet), the switch to a more health-conscious and intentional approach to food brings all kinds of benefits. Living healthy can help you to live happy. And not just in the obvious…
7 Anti-inflammatory Foods
Inflammation! What is it? Why is it? What does it do to your body, and what does it mean for something to be anti-inflammatory? If you’ve ever asked yourself any of these questions then stay tuned, because today we’re talking all about anti-inflammatory foods. Many common chronic illnesses are caused by excessive inflammation, so it’s…
The Truth About Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Vitamin B12. We’ve all heard about it, but how many of us actually know what it is, and how to get it? What happened to Bs 1 through 11, and why don’t you ever hear about them? Is it true that you can get B12 by eating dirt? If you’ve ever wondered about any of…
8 Exotic Fruits You Should Go Out And Try
The world, they say, is getting smaller every day. Local food and farmer’s markets are gaining a lot of ground as people become more environmentally and health conscious, which is great. But the age of globalization does have it’s upsides. One is that we’ve now got access to all kinds of exotic fruits that could…
7 Most Overrated Raw Foods
In these days of global markets, slick ad campaigns, and a growing health-consciousness, there’s a lot of buzz about food. And why not? We are what we eat after all. But when it comes to trends, smoke doesn’t always mean fire. And all that hype can add up to a pretty serious grocery bill. So…
How To Flavor Your Kombucha Recipe
So you’ve been making your own kombucha at home, and things are going great. Plain kombucha is wonderful on its own — that tangy, slightly fizzy probiotic goodness is hard to beat. But at some point, you’re going to want to branch out and experiment with flavors. Good news: flavoring kombucha is one of the…