Back to Nature - Apple Cider Vinegar
I had an Irish colleague a few years ago who introduced me to this natural remedy. We used to have our mixture of apple cider and honey with warm water 3 times a day and I was feeling quite healthy those days. He was a roamer and left to visit relatives in New Zeeland. We lost contact and it was the end of our habit, one I am now definitely getting into again! Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) has been claimed by many people as a wonder drug due to the extensive benefits that the vinegar offers. It contains some of the most essential minerals, vitamins, trace elements (copper, iron, silicon, magnesium, phosphorous, calcium) and some important acids such as lactic acid, acetic acid, amino acid and a lot of...
Berry Antioxidant - Best of the Berries
It is time to get out to your farmers markets as summer is now upon us! That means nature will provide us once again with a cornucopia of different berries. All these deep and rich coloured berries are little powerhouses of nutrition. They are packed full of anti-oxidants that help us eliminate those nasty free radicals that build up in our body. Berries have been shown to help us prevent everything from bladder infections to certain forms of cancers. In the spirit of summer we want to provide you with a healthy guideline to the best berries out there. The Champ: Without a doubt blueberries are the heavyweight champ of the berries. These dark purple and blue gems are full of anti-oxidants called...
Lemon Olive Oil Cleanse For a Liver-Gallbladder...
To help our bodies work at eliminating toxins as best it can, a gallbladder liver flush is definitely something you should consider. Cleansing your body internally makes perfect sense. Why do we only cleanse ourselves on the outside and spend hundreds of dollars doing so. I'm sure all the big soap and shampoo companies are ecstatic. Our body should be working well by itself thank you. However, in today's world with our penchant to consume sodas and fast food on a daily basis, our body systems have a hard time coping. That's just the tip of the iceberg - think about the huge amounts of coffee we consume as well as a diet of usually too much fat and too little fiber. Many of us do not give our bodies...
Lemon Olive Oil Cleanse - Top Things You Need...
Below is a list of things you will need for your lemon olive oil cleansing. 1. Supportive environment - supportive people and comfortable place are a must have for your lemon olive oil cleanse. 2. Time - The colon, gallbladder, and liver flush takes time. The process will have an active part that will usually last from the intake of the olive oil and lemon juice through noon of the following day. Sunday morning & Saturday night is the right time for you to take this if you work during the week. Also consider eating a protein and fat free diet during the day. I myself eat during this time organic apples. Eating fruits is simple and won't take time to prepare and therefore it is easier to avoid...
Finding Organic Solutions For a Healthy Lifestyle
You may be considering the often challenging transition from a standard American diet to a healthy organic or vegetarian diet. For some people, lifestyle changes will naturally arise from a reasoned decision to develop a healthy lifestyle. Your transition may come from experiencing health conditions that may be improved by dietary and lifestyle changes. You may be trying to lose weight or improve the overall health of your family. Choosing to eat differently can elicit many challenging thoughts and feelings, which do not initially support the changes you are making. Making an unrealistic plan for change is a common way to ensure that habitual patterns remain stuck. Here is a transition plan destined...
(First in a series of articles about "The Dirty Dozen," a reference to the twelve most contaminated foods by the Environmental Working Group, a non-profit organization comprised of scientists and engineers.) According to researchers at Iowa State University, that lovely looking apple you are thinking about eating is one of the most pesticide intensive crops grown in the United States. During the growing season, apple growers spray the trees with pesticides multiple times. When the Environmental Working Group tested conventionally grown apples, they discovered as many as 36 pesticides on the apples. The pesticides that were detected have been linked to damages to the human reproductive system...
It's really not a secret recipe as to how to make homemade applesauce whether it's for you, your baby, family members or anyone else. The healthiest applesauce is not cooked or canned. It is served raw. Applesauce is naturally sweet but may depend on the type of apples you choose. The preparation of applesauce is so easy you would think that everyone knows how. But many people are amazed that they've never thought of making applesauce without cooking it. Cooking apples damages the enzymes needed for digestion and diminishes the phytonutrients. Vitamin and mineral structure is changed or damaged. So serving applesauce raw or, in other words, living or uncooked, is the best and healthiest way. First...
Michigan Family Vacation: More Than Just Apples...
It's not often that you head out on a vacation planning to hit up the local farms, but in Michigan you might just want to. Michigan is one of the top apple-producing states in the U.S., and is known for being home to hundreds of farmers markets and cider mills. Just about any region in Michigan will have a farm or mill for you and the family to stop in for a bit. Enjoy fresh apple cider and tours of working farms to find out where these fruits come from before they hit your local grocery store. Of course, because there is much more to do than visit apple farms, your Michigan family vacation will be jam-packed with fun for everyone. Michigan Coast Dotted with Over a Hundred Lighthouses Michigan is...
Total Cleanse - What's Needed For Proper...
There a number of key ingredients and tools needed for making the proper smoothie or green smoothie. The first and most important part is making sure you have a high quality blender so that you can get a quality and consistent smoothie each and every time. The two best models currently available are the Vitamix blenders and the Blendtec total blenders, my personally recommendation is to go with the Blendtec as it's more durable and easier to clean, but both models are vastly superior to most department store blenders. One of the key aspects of picking out a blender is looking at the power rating, the higher end models generally have three or more horsepower motors and that's generally what you want...
The first tentative color Peaks out, looks around, And feeling her warm welcoming embrace Knows spring has arrived... Wake up Sleepy Head! All is well! Winter has finally loosened its icy grip on the land, our bodies and our psyches. Like molting animals, we trade the old, tired cover for something new, vibrant and alive. Nowhere is this more evident than farmers markets around the country. Nature, at her organic best, most nutritious and delicious, brings us a symphony of colors, flavors, and textures. Medical professionals have told us for decades that for optimum health we must include more fresh fruits and vegetables in our diets, and less pre-packaged processed foods. Nowhere will you find more...
Stuff to See and Do Around Momence, Illinois
The region drained by the Kankakee River in northeastern Illinois embraces some of the most beautiful and fertile land in the country. The Kankakee, which was the home of the Potawatomi Indians and the road through which early settlers pushed into the area, rises in Indiana marshes; joins the Iroquois River below Momence Illinois hospital, and flows to the Illinois near Manteno. An odd feature of the Kankakee River Valley is the absence of any ponds or lakes. This region is underlaid with a limestone formation which can vary from several feet to over fifty feet beneath the surface. Kankakee County soils can be classified in one of three groups: marsh and sandy land; light black earth; and a heavy...
Pumpkin picking is a great fall activity and a memorable experience with the kids? Spend a day with the kids in New Jersey farm country picking pumpkins, and time permitting, add on a hayride or a trip to the corn maze. In the fall, the daytime New Jersey countryside becomes a bright landscape, color-quilted with leafy hues and the night time sky is clear and vivid shining stars. The pumpkin picking season in New Jersey begins as early as September 15, with peak activity from October 1 - October 15, with the season ending on Halloween Day, and on some farms, into early November. Pick-Your-Own farms vary in the activities they offer, from the farm that offers only pick your own to those that feature...
Shrinking Your Ecological Footprint
There is no doubt that almost everyone has heard talk concerning "going green" these days, and rightly so because we want to protect our planet for our future generations right? Well there are a number of things that can be done by you individually that will help protect this precious planet. There are simple steps that you can take at home, at work, and in your everyday life that will cause your ecological footprint to shrink rather than grow as we are offered more and more technology every day. One of the easiest things that you can do to make your life a little more green is to ditch those plastic water bottles and trade them in for reusable bottles. Not only do the plastic variety sit around for...
School lunch programs have been quite the hot topic in the media lately. Tom Colicchio, a celebrity chef on Bravo's Top Chef and restaurant owner, is championing the proposed Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act of 2010 (H.R. 5504) and recently testified before the House to do so. In early June, Rachel Ray appeared before the House on behalf of the same bill. If passed, the Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act could potentially increase access to nutrition for many children. Why H.R. 5504 is Important? We know there is a correlation between nutrition and academic success. However, knowledge without action is like a seed without soil, water or light - locked potential. This bill...
Strategic Shopping For Health
Grocery prices are rising. Every time you take a trip to the grocery store, you pay more for less. You have to economize but at what cost? You don't want to compromise healthy eating. You want to buy the very best food for your family. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has mandated that no organic food can contain added hormones, antibiotics, synthetic pesticides, irradiated components, genetically modified organisms, or reprocessed sewage. Traditionally grown food has no such mandate. Most of the food sold in grocery stores is traditionally grown food that is grown or produced with toxic pesticides, toxic fertilizers, herbicides, added hormones and antibiotics. Study after study has shown residues...
As the first settled city in Australia, Goulburn is brimming with history. Population 24,000, it is one of the largest cities as well. Also well known as the rural hub for local agriculture. Goulburn is a frequented point for travelers utilizing the Hume Highway which connects Sydney with Canberra as well as Melbourne. Drive time from Sydney is approximately two and a half hours. To travel from Canberra it is approximately an hour. In operation since 1869 the railway line is still in use in. The railway offers travelers an opportunity to have a picturesque ride through the Southern Highlands. There runs a daily train service from Sydney to Goulburn on the way to Melbourne and Canberra. This service...
The Benefits of Using Fresh, Local Produce
Fresh, local produce is becoming more popular and sought after by chefs and home cooks all over the world. As they discover the benefits of buying fresh, local produce over supermarket food, more farmer's markets are appearing and local suppliers are opening their doors wider to the public. Growing numbers of shoppers are disillusioned with mass produced food for a variety of reasons. They want to know where their food comes from and to support local suppliers, especially in more rural areas. Tasteless, out of season food jam packed with additives wrapped in layers of packaging does little for bodily health, confidence in suppliers' ethics, or the purse strings. Here are the main reasons to seek out...
Locovore - Eating Locally
"Locavore" was the Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year in 2007. A locavore is someone who makes an effort to eat food that comes from his or her surrounding area. Some insist on food coming from within a 100-mile radius of their homes, others are less strict. What are the benefits of eating locally? How difficult is it to be a locavore? What resources are available to locavores in the five boroughs? This article will answer those initial questions and help you find the right questions to ask. You may be thinking, "Isn't most of the food I can buy in New York from New York?" No. No, it is not. The modern food system in America is built on the platform of cheap food. Most of the food in this...
-- End Ad Box ---> There are many contaminants that assault us on a daily basis. These toxins are in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the foods we eat, to name just a few. Eating organic food greatly reduces the toxins we consume in our food. Organic food is becoming more popular as people are becoming more health conscious. There are now certain regulations for growing organic foods commercially and many foods, especially eggs, bear an organic certification label. What is organic food? Organic food is food that is grown naturally without the aid of commercial fertilizers and chemicals like insecticides, herbicides, and anti-fungal substances. Organic growers use only organic fertilizers...
As you look for gardening supply, the vegetable supplies are often found easily. However, where the supplies are bought from, actually matters. Most of times as you find that every gardening need you have could come from little pouches. This is not true when one is looking for high-quality ingredients for the gardening supply. The vegetable seeds or even bulbs for garlic and onions could be successful. It is, but a better choice to check out for other, still higher quality resources instead of them. Find them- the place For any gardening supply; be it vegetable or fruit supplies one should know where to look for them? In earlier times when the farms were readily available, the farmers or gardeners...
Buying Organic - Pro's and Con's of Buying...
There is a lot of debate about the issue of buying organic products from the local organic store or supermarket compared to buying them online or through local delivery systems and networks. We all want to reduce our carbon footprint but what is the most environmentally sustainable method of delivery? When buying fresh organic products the debate goes a little deeper because the further fresh produce has to travel, the more likely it can become contaminated and its freshness slowly declines. Processed organic products are also a subject of concern. Organic products are often manufactured to order or supplies are made based on predetermined order schedules. Organic products often have a lower shelf...
Eat Healthy With Organic Foods
When you shop at the grocery store or supermarket to buy fruits and vegetables, do you pick just any produce or are you particular about eating organic foods? There is a difference between the two and, after our discussion, you may decide that organic foods are the best choice for you and your family. Let's take a look at the benefits of buying organic produce. While both kinds of produce may look the same, food grown organically must be able to meet "specific standards" of production, including specific growing and processing conditions that are unique to foods that can be labeled "organic". For crop foods, the organic foods cannot be grown using any chemical pesticides, non-organic fertilizer...
5 Things to Look For When Buying Organic Products
Tell a Scientist you are eating an Organic Apple and he'll probably say 'All Apples Are Organic'. Organic has 2 basic definitions. 1. According to the dictionary Organic basically means 'of or containing carbon'. Therefore anything that is or has lived could (and should) be considered Organic. By that definition. 2. To an Organic grower and consumer, Organic means 'Not contaminated with any synthetic pesticide, chemical fertiliser or growth stimulants. This does cause confusion with people changing to organically grown products to eliminate chemical pesticides and growth stimulants. The Dictionary definition has often been used by companies labelling their products as organic simply because they...
Organic Vegetables - Do You Know What To Buy?
Do you know what vegetables to buy organic and what is not worth the trouble? Organic vegetables are wonderful, and well worth their price, say some. Growing your own organic vegetables is best, of course. You feel safer knowing exactly what was used on your vegetables before they got to your table. But if you cannot grow your own organic vegetables, the argument goes, it is worth the trouble to find a store or farmers' market where you can buy them. So let's suppose you take that trouble. Let's suppose you find a source of organic vegetables. Do you know what vegetables to buy organic? Are all organic vegetables worth the higher price? Organic vegetables that are certified organic under U.S. Dept...
Buying Raw Food For Dogs
Dogs on a raw diet are naturally healthier, happier, and more energetic. They will face less health problems both in their present state and in the long run when compared to their kibble fed (or other dog diets) counterparts. However, buying raw food for dogs can be a challenge to some dog owners since there are several considerations to keep in mind. First, when buying raw food for dogs, make sure the food is human grade food or fit for human consumption. This means it is the highest quality raw food available. Making sure that everything is fresh and safe to eat is one of the keys to success when following the raw food feeding model. Next, make sure you buy organic fruits and vegetables. Organic...
There are three steps to minimizing your grocery bill each week. 1. Plan Ahead 2. Buy At The Lowest Possible Price 3. Eliminate Waste Plan Ahead If you spend 10-15 minutes planning before you ahead to the store you will ensure that you purchase what you need instead of wondering through the store throwing things in the cart. First decided what your dinners will be each day. Here is a trick that will make that step easy. Get some index cards and write one supper menu and all the items needed to make that meal on each card. Make up 15 or more of these cards. Some of the menus can be fancy and some can be as simple as grilled cheese sandwiches and canned soup. It will take a couple hours to get the...
How Organic Products Can Help Your Family
mation on Organic Products You may be shocked at how much of the produce at your local supermarket has been genetically modified with chemicals and pesticides. While there is strong evidence that chemically modified foods are harmful to your health, there have been no long term studies done either. Here is a quote from The Environmental Protection Agency “Pesticides are designed to kill pests. Many pesticides can also pose risks to people. The health effects of pesticides depend on the type of pesticide. Some, such as the organophosphates and carbonates, affect the nervous system. Others may irritate the skin or eyes. Some pesticides may be carcinogens. Others may affect the hormone or...
How to Use the Law of Attraction to Lose Weight
Remember when 'The Secret' was all the rage? It was everywhere; 'The Secret' books. 'The Secret' DVDs. 'the Secret' bumper stickers. Only it's not really a secret. The concept behind this seemingly 'new' phenomenon has actually been around for a very long time; it's just never been packaged so 'attractively' before now (pardon the pun!). Whatever the case, the basic premise behind the Law of Attraction is: 'Focus on what you want, and you can have it'. But did you know that you can use the principles behind the Law of Attraction to lose weight? Anybody can use their minds to attract good things into their lives; you have the power to create anything you want. It's all about giving your mind a...
There is nothing as much fun as gushing over a gorgeous home - least of all because you're not the one who has to worry about the mortgage! Well for your property pleasure, following are 10 of the most amazing, awe-inspiring and beautiful homes in Australia, perhaps you'll be inspired to update your place? 1. Glenburn House We are all becoming more energy conscious and working hard to reduce our carbon footprint, and while all new homes in Australia must meet a five star energy rating, there are some homes which go well beyond five stars and do it in style. Glenburn House has been built in a Victorian hillside and has been specially designed to be easy to heat in winter and easy to keep cool in...
The Best Multi Vitamin
A daily mulit vitamin is necessary in healthy adults and especially for those with heart disease, cancer, and auto-immune diseases. They slow down and prevent these deadly diseases on many levels. The potent antioxidant properties of a pharmaceutical grade vitamin neutralizes free radicals that cause cell damage and speed up the aging process. They also aid in metabolism, energy production and boost the immune system. With all of the different brands of multi vitamins, how do you choose the best one? When I started researching vitamins, I began at the top. I learned that according to Nutrisearch only 2% of all vitamins are awarded the 5 star rating. So I began researching only the cream of the crop...
Most people want to know how to get a flawless complexion because the skin is one of the first thing you notice when you meet someone. A smooth and flawless complexion indicates the person is healthy and takes good care of the body, while dull or oily skin makes you look less healthy. And a lot of the time it is true that the skin shows a little bit of what is going on inside your body. That is why many of these tips address your internal health. How to get a flawless complexion: 1. Drink 8 Glasses Fluids are important to keep your skin properly hydrated, which will make it firmer and smoother. The most hydrating fluids are pure water and freshly homemade organic fruit and vegetable juices. So make...
Starting a Smoothie Business
Is there room in your town for a Smoothie business? Juice bars are popping up in most towns and cities in the UK. Their offering is healthy, nutritious, easy to make, fun and very tasty! Fruit & Vegetable juices definitely beat most other foods having lower calories, higher vitamin and mineral content and are low in fat. They have been recognised as preventing many types of illnesses caused by our fast food diet / low nutrition diet.. Every fruit and vegetable has its own unique mixture of vitamins and minerals which you can use to make up for many deficiencies in your diet. Juice on the Move - they are great to be consumed on the move in this high pace world in which we live in. With a decent...
If you wish to make headways in eliminating your eczema, for the next 28 days, approximately one month, you should throw away all packet foods, tins, TV dinners, takeaways and all fizzy drinks. Instead during this 28 day period you are going to replace the above junk foods with a diet full of natural, health-giving foods. Let's start off by juicing fresh, organic fruit and vegetable. Juicing will not only provide your skin and body with much needed vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, but juicing will also cleanse your skin and balance your internal system which is the first step for the successful, easy elimination of eczema. Here are a few more reasons why you should use juicing to start your...
What Can You Add to a Kitchen Compost Bucket
If you're interested in composting your kitchen scraps, you've probably wondered just how to go about getting started. Thankfully it's quite easy to composting as part of your everyday kitchen cleanup or cooking routine. If you're not familiar with kitchen composting, here's a quick introduction: Composting in the kitchen is generally just a process of adding organic food materials to a small compost bucket or bin that sits on the kitchen counter. Either when that bucket gets full, or on a daily basis, you take it outside to a larger compost pile or bin and add those kitchen materials into the mix. Pretty much any organic food scraps can be added to your kitchen compost bin. The most commonly added...
Organic vegetable seeds make up an important part of any organic garden. Since one of the first steps of planning a garden is to purchase seeds or young plants, this can make or break the success of your garden. These types of specially grown seeds are certified by the USDA, which means they have never been sprayed with any insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, or harmful fertilizers. These pesticides are some of the worst chemicals around and have been known to cause harmful side effects and death in humans. Think about what an insecticide is and was designed to do. Insecticides are used to kill unwanted insects from invading you garden planting bed. Once you spray them, you are not only killing...
North Americans increasingly experience dehydration. The common use of soda, coffee, and other processed drinks do not put water into the body like drinking a glass of alkaline water also called kangen water. Widespread dehydration is causing memory loss, increased hunger, slower metabolism, painful stomach ailments, and an inability to concentrate. The water content of the body also decreases with age causing wrinkling. Apart from water loss our bodies become acidic over time. Every time we drink a cup of coffee, or consume processed foods, our acidic level rises. Alkaline water reverses that process and puts your body back into its proper balance, Take it to school or to work, remember to...
Uterine Fibroids - Feel Healthy - Have a Juice...
Why not try a juice clear out for a day or two? 3 stalks celery 1 whole cucumber Handful spinach 5 leaves romaine lettuce Add one green apple and one green pear. Small piece of root ginger (enough to taste in juice) Cleanses the digestive system. Good detoxifier. First thing in the morning start with a green vegetable juice and then half hour or later, enjoy a large plate of melon or citrus juice and continue eating fruits until noon. If you are eating melon, make sure you eat that fruit on its own as it is a good cleanser and travels through the body system very rapidly and faster than any other fruit and is recommended by many juice experts. Once you have eaten the melon, leave at least 20 minutes...
How to Stay Raw at Work
For raw foodists not fortunate enough to make their living working from home, it becomes necessary to find ways to maintain the diet and lifestyle in the work environment. This means sticking to their raw food intake percentage and doing it in a healthy and balanced way. There are a couple challenges when working in the office on the plant-based diet: 1. You may be tempted by refined sugar and refined carbohydrate "office-treats." 2. You have to plan ahead (meaning you have to create more time) to think about and make food. 3. You have to have food and snacks in the office five days a week (i.e. you can't run out of food and you can't forget your food at home). 4. You have to deal with various...
Inspire Yourself With a Sample Detox Diet
Talk To Your Doctor Before You Begin Deciding to go on a detoxification diet is not something you should do without input from your doctor. You have to be reasonably healthy to handle a detox diet, especially if you are considering one of the more extreme detox diets, like a detox juice fast or a 21-day detox program. But no matter which detox diet you eventually choose, you will help your cause greatly by using a sample detox diet to let you prepare in advance the foods you'll be eating through your detox program. Having the guidance of a sample detox diet is one safeguard against your diving into the temptation of unhealthy junk or fast foods in the middle of your detox program, when you'll be...
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome & How You Can...
With each menstrual cycle, follicles grow on the ovaries. These follicles contain the eggs from which a foetus develops if the egg is fertilised. A mature egg is then released into the fallopian tube (ovulation) and the remaining eggs disintegrate. In PCOS, the ovaries are larger than normal due to a number of undeveloped follicles. In some cases, women who have PCOS may not even know they have it because it does not cause any symptoms. However, if there is a hormonal imbalance, this is where problems can arise. In more extreme cases of PCOS, a person maybe overweight, suffer with mood swings, heavy, scant or no periods, acne and prone to growing excess bodily hair (hirsutism). PCOS can also affect...
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is Often Misunderstood...
Causes Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The causes or cause of CFS is not known but the common endpoint of CFS is from multiple precipitating causes. But conditions that are proposed to activate the development of CFS include virus infections or other traumatic conditions, stress and toxins. It was thought that CFS is caused by a viral infection because of its similarity to acute or chronic infections. But now it is clear that CFS is not caused by any single infectious disease agent. According to a study there is no association between CFS and a wide variety of pathogens including EBV human retroviruses, human herpes virus 6, enteroviruses, rubella, Candida albicans and more recently bornaviruses and...
We need oxygen to breathe as without it we would die. Are body cells also depend on oxygen as does all animal and plant life that lives on the planet earth. Oxygen is key to the reproduction and health of our cells. It also plays a very important role in turning the food we eat into the energy that is needed for our body and organs to function. Ironically as oxygen is essential to giving us life it has a dangerous side affect. It is highly chemically reactive and this oxidisation can cause damage to our bodies. This oxidisation affect can damage or cells at a cellular level. This can cause a number of dangerous processes and reactions. It can trigger the onset of serious diseases such as cancer...
Discover Which Foods Are Good For Your Heart
As the saying goes you are what you eat. If you have heart disease you are probably well aware that a healthy diet is very important when treating the disease. The number one killer in America is heart disease and in most cases the condition could have either been reversed or at least controlled. There are factors that are uncontrollable that can increase your risk of heart disease such as heredity however, many of the factors can be controlled. An interesting study revealed that 8 out 10 causes of death in America can be linked to food or alcohol. This clearly shows us that your lifestyle plays an important role in influencing how risky you are to getting heart disease. A big reason why heart...
A key to your overall health is to eat the kind of foods that will help you lose weight. And changing your eating habits to include whole, natural foods that are rich in fiber and low in calories is the key to losing body fat. Foods That Help You Lose Weight - 1. High Fiber Food. A diet high in fiber helps you to feel fuller between meals - best of all high in nutrition, and low in calorie. Fiber acts like a sponge in your bowel, and soaks up water around it and swells to a bulkier form which helps to slow down the emptying of the stomach. That is where the feeling of fullness comes from. Make the effort to eat 3 servings of fruit and 3-5 servings of vegetables per day. 2. Lean Protein - Great...
Most of us have been there when we wake up the morning after a night out. The first thing that hits you as you awake is that throbbing headache and the feeling of being sick. Not a very nice feeling at all to have when you wake up to start the day. Recovering from hangover can also leave you tired and grumpy. A hangover is your body telling you that you have drunk too much alcohol for your own good and now you are paying the price. A hangover is caused by a two things. The first one is the body becomes dehydrated meaning there is a lack of water in the body. The second cause is the reaction to over taxing the liver. To the body alcohol is a toxic that it needs to get rid off. The livers job is to...
Diet Tips to Help Clear Your Acne
Acne is a common skin condition that can affect people of all ages however, it is most common in teenagers. There are many factors that cause this embarrassing and uncomfortable condition. Many medical experts agree that the amount of hormonal changes that young teenagers go through is one of the biggest causes of acne. Many of these hormonal changes happen during puberty when teenagers bodies start to develop. Acne occurs when the skin pores become blocked and infected. The skin pores are blocked when the sebaceous glands that lie underneath the skin produce and over abundance of substances called sebum and keratin. As these two substances build up and harden they increase the risk of becoming...
Everyone has heard the saying," You are what you eat." When we are younger we can eat unhealthy foods and seem to get by for a while, but as we grow older, our unhealthy lifestyle will catch up with us in the form of illness and disease. Most of the foods you buy from the grocery store are processed, meaning they are manufactured in a factory and most often contain littler nutritional value. Even though companies will enrich certain foods or put labels that they are all natural, nothing is better than the real thing. Real food is nature's food and it is what we need to build healthy bodies that are disease free and full of energy. Real foods consist of most everything on the outer aisles of the...
Money Saving Grocery Tips - What You Should and...
Sure, we have all heard that organic fruits and vegetables might be healthier for us but in these hard economic times, who wants to pay those expensive prices? Find out how you can save money and still live free of harmful chemicals with this helpful guide to understanding organics. Have you ever stood in the produce section of your grocery store glancing back and forth between the organic apples and the conventional (regular) apples wondering "Why should I pay more for organic? They look exactly the same!" I have, and nine times out of ten I'll choose the conventional apple simply because they are cheaper. The truth is buying one or two apples at a time makes it hard to conceptualize the benefits I...
Save Money and Still Eat Organic
The economy is in a downturn and many of you are looking for ways that you can squeeze 4 quarters from every dollar that comes through our hands. You want to eat only organic fruits and vegetables, but eating all organic is too expensive for you at this time. How can you eat organic when things are so tight and food is pricey? Here are some ways that you can save money and still eat organic. Buy Organic When Necessary If you think that purchasing all of your foods organic is a must, then think again. Buying organic is great, but if you are on a budget, eating all organic can be quite expensive. Is all organic necessary? No it is not! There are 12 fruits and vegetables on the dirty dozens list. If...
The 12 Most Contaminated Fruits and Vegetables
We know that pesticides are definitely dangerous to human health. We also knowthat one of the best things we can do to avoid pesticides is to consume organicfood. However, this isn't always possible due to several restraints: availability, price,etc. There's another thing we can do, however, to reduce our pesticide exposure: avoidthe fruits and vegetables that are the most contaminated. When organic is not available, eat fruits and vegetables with consistently lowpesticide loads. It's been shown that you can lower your pesticide exposure simply by avoiding thetop 12 most contaminated types of fruit and vegetables, and eating the leastcontaminated instead. Eating the 12 most contaminated fruits and...
I know there seems to be an on-going debate out there these days with health professionals, nutritionists, and the media giving different opinions about whether organic food is worth the slightly higher prices. But there are a few VERY important aspects of organic food that I rarely see anybody out there talking about. First, as you know, the main aspect that most people talk about in the organic vs conventional food debate is simply whether the food in question was grown with pesticides, herbicides, or chemical fertilizers, and whether that food contains pesticide/herbicide residues on the actual food when you eat it. And that IS important... I mean, I know I don't want to be ingesting pesticide...