Is Your Acid vs Alkaline Balance Important?
Our blood sits at a pH of 7.4. This means it leans, ever so slightly, alkaline. If something were to happen in our body and this somehow changed, even by a small amount, like...
How Probiotics Help
How probiotics help: They’re your happy little bacteria friends. At some point in your life, someone has likely told you that you should be taking probiotics. That someone was probably an Activia commercial telling...
How To Detox Without A ‘Cleanse’
Want to know how to detox? It’s all about the liver. While some people swear by juice cleanses or water fasts to detoxify their body, it isn’t necessary if you have a healthy diet....
5 Signs Your Becoming Health Obsessed
Not that caring about your health is a bad thing. However, caring too about your health, and veering into the territory of obsession isn’t healthy either. I’ve put together a list of five signs...
Why You Need Raw Foods
Quick, Easy, Unprocessed Raw Foods = Yum! Here’s yet another reason why salads are good for you; because unless your salads only contain meat (unlikely); most of what’s in your salad is raw vegetables; and...
Is ‘Coca-Cola Life’ healthy?
When I saw the ad for Coca-Cola Life, I was pretty sure the colour on my TV had died. Nope. Coca-Cola Life is green. I haven’t drank Coca-Cola in years, but this intrigued me. Is...
Our Skewed View of Health
In the household I grew up in, there was no ‘healthy’ food or ‘unhealthy’ food; there was just food. Sure, some food might be ‘better for you’ than others, but we didn’t really know...
How to Eat Less Meat
It’s difficult to convince people they need to eat less meat. Eating meat with every meal is a cultural tradition so ingrained in our society that those who opt of of the traditional eating patterns,...
Why Are GMOs So Scary?
There’s a lot of debate regarding genetically modified foods. Are they as nutritious as non-GMO food? Do they taste the same as the original? Will they be responsible for the onset of the zombie apocalypse? (Am...
Is the Ornish Diet the Best Diet?
The Paleo Diet might be the most popular fad diet right now. It’s built upon the idea that the food that has allowed humans to evolve to where we are today should be the food we...
How To Live to be 100
My goal is to live to 120 years old. It’s a goal that, if I make, I’ll be pretty impressed with myself. If not… I suppose 119 will do. I just finished reading Healthy...
How To Count Calories
Counting calories can be a lot of work. Keeping track of everything you eat in the correct amounts get tricky when you eat out or make something at home with a lot of different...
Raspberry Fudge Squares – Health Video Pick of the Week
Yay for healthy desserts! This one comes from one of my favorite YouTubers, FullyRawKristina. It’s a beautiful mix of pitted dates, pecans, raw cacao powder, mulberries, sweet cacao nibs, and raspberries that results in a delicious...
10 Elements of a Healthy Diet
The primary elements of a healthy diet involve going back to the basics; in other words, eating food how we used to: natural, unprocessed, clean, in-season, and local. I found these fantastic tips in the book...
The Benefits of Fat – Health Video Pick of the Week
There is a lot of fear surrounding fat in our diet, but it’s so important that we include healthy fat in our meals. As Joyous Health points out, fat helps with chemical reactions in the body, helps...
7 Awesome Non-Toxic Kids Clothing Brands
If you weren’t already aware, a lot of the clothes you buy for your kids are toxic. The problem is, the big retailers don’t seem to care. Studies have found children’s clothing made in...
Sick A Lot? Here’s Why Your Immune System Sucks
Your immune system is an amazing thing. Sure, when you’re home sick with giant puffy red eyes and an entire box of Kleenex shoved up your nose, it probably seems like your immune system has...
The 7 Deadly Sins & Lies of Dieting
“She must be a size 4. Why can’t I be a size 4? She just has better genes than me. So unfair. Why does she get to look like that?” Everyone has to start...
Eat For You
Some people seem stuck in the idea that they’re trapped by what their family or spouse eats. They believe that having a vegetarian husband makes them automatically vegetarian too; or having pressure from a...
Is Homeopathic ‘Medicine’, Medicine?
Now that I’m in school to become a nutritionist, being informed about alternative medicines like homeopathy seems like a good idea. If I ever need to explain the differences between the two in order to separate nutrition from homeopathy,...