With the multitudes of options for healthy eating it can be overwhelming to decide which foods to eat and how to combine them. Fortunately, nature was designed with easy indicators of which foods are best. Most plant-based foods are conveniently categorized by colour, according to their benefits. By simply looking...
Your brain never catches a break. It's always on, always working to keep you alive and functioning the right way. Even when you're asleep, your brain works double time. And all of this work requires some kind of fuel, right? Food is that fuel. And just like with your car,...
High blood pressure or hypertension increases the risk of having serious health conditions like a stroke, a heart attack, aneurysm, or kidney disease, among others. Some of the risk factors include obesity, inactivity, smoking, stress, and of course, poor diet. While conventional doctors prescribe a number of medications to...
Eating fresh vegetables, (preferably organic) is a big factor in maintaining a healthy diet. On top of that, it can help you lower your risk for heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and cancer. Aside from being rich in fiber, minerals, and vitamins, vegetables are also high in antioxidants...
When you think of vegetables from when you were a child, you probably think of bland or awful tasting green things your mom used to force-feed you. As you grow older, your perspective changes. Now you think eating vegetables mean tossing a few leaves of lettuce, adding some tomatoes and...
