How often do you look at your fingernails and wonder what they are saying about your health? If you are honest - your answer is probably very infrequently. However, fingernails like other body parts, are places where we can...
Carrageenan is a highly popular additive often found in organic foods. It is derived from red seaweed, but, unfortunately, the process used to make it leaves it unhealthy and refined. This additive is used in both conventional and organic...
The documentary Statin Nation: The Great Cholesterol Cover-Up, presented by Rethink Productions, provides strong evidence that the widely-believed ideology that high cholesterol leads to heart disease is completely false.
It details how the scientific groundwork that this belief is...
There is not a fresher sight than a roadside fruit and veggie stand bursting with color and freshness. Produce, picked from the vine just hours earlier, drips with ripeness and wholesome nutrition.
The local movement is in full swing in...
Many fast food eateries have been touting their so-called healthier options after promising to make nutritional improvements in the food they serve, but unfortunately, they’ve failed to come through. While they have increased the use of the term “healthy”...
Remember when many people were under the impression that any food labeled non-fat was healthy? The same thing seems to be happening with gluten-free foods.
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow famously touts this diet, but it’s important to remember that it isn’t...
Essential oils are the oldest known form of medicine to mankind. Defined, essential oils are fragrant liquids drawn from flowers, seeds, stems, leaves, bark, bushes, herbs and shrubs.
History of Essential Oils
The evidence that essential oils have been used for...
We welcome the coming of summertime but are often not so pleased with the results of a little too much time in the sun or the persistent nagging and biting of flying insects.
With yard work in full swing, you...
A naturopathic physician, Dr. Kate Rheaume-Bleue has a passionate interest in nutrition and has written an eye-opening book entitled Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox: How a Little Known Vitamin Could Save Your Life.
This book is the result of...
Have you ever polished off a big bowl of fruit only to be hungry within the hour? This can be frustrating, especially if you are trying to lose weight. When the hunger pangs strike you want something sweet which...
