Don’t be Fooled by 100% Juice Label
If you think that store-bought juices labeled '100% Juice' are roughly equivalent to freshly-squeezed juices you make at home, think again. This label is very misleading, and does not reveal any of the chemical processing that most of these juices undergo. Alissa Hamilton, author of the book Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice, explains the process that freshly-squeezed...
Study Calls Exercise the Most Effective Tool Against Aging
Move over anti-aging lotions and potions. It turns out the real key to anti-aging is motion. Researchers from McMaster University may have unlocked the secret to keeping your body young both inside and out and it can’t be found in a vial or pill bottle. When researchers took mice that were genetically altered to age quickly and assigned them to...
Do You Have Email Apnea?
Former top researcher at Microsoft, Linda Stone, noticed she had a tendency to hold her breath while reading or responding to emails and decided to conduct a study to see if other people did the same. The results revealed that four out of five people appeared to have “email apnea,” meaning they held their breath or tended to breathe more...
More Texting Means Less Sleep
A study published earlier this fall in Psychology of Popular Media Culture found a link between text messaging and quality of sleep: the more texts sent throughout the day, the worse the sleep quality. Karla Murdock, a psychology professor at Washington and Lee University surveyed the texting and sleep habits of 83 college freshmen. The students answered an online questionnaire...
Try These Seaweeds Loaded With Iodine and Antioxidants
Seaweed is one of nature’s most amazing superfoods. It is one of the most nutritionally dense foods on earth and the most abundant source of minerals in the entire plant kingdom, filled with antioxidants, calcium and a wide range of vitamins – but that doesn’t even begin to tell the full story of how incredibly healthy this food is...
Making Sense of Stevia—What Is Really Pure?
Stevia has lately been experiencing a rapid growth in popularity as a sugar substitute, and for good reason. In its raw and unprocessed state, stevia leaves provide completely natural sweetness, without adding calories or raising blood sugar levels at all. However, many of the stevia brands found on the shelves are not pure stevia. Stevia rebaudiana is native to South...
Belly Fat vs. Butt Fat – And the Winner Is…
While excess body fat is not something you should make as your New Year's resolution, if you happen to have a little extra, some places may be better to store your extra pounds. People who carry most of their fat in their belly are known as "apple shaped," while people who carry their fat in what is known as...
Maqui Berries – The New Superfood
Maqui berries are one of the newest superfoods, a vividly purple fruit that grows wild throughout southern Chile, across hillsides and fields as well as the borders of forested areas. There are so many of the berries growing wild that cultivation isn’t necessary—the people who harvest the berries that are sold commercially are the Mapuche Indians, indigenous to Chile. This...
How to Prepare a Delicious Gluten-Free Holiday Meal
Whether you live a gluten-free lifestyle due to a condition like celiac disease or find that avoiding wheat just makes you feel better, you’ve probably found there is a bounty of delicious gluten-free foods at your disposal. The holidays, however, can pose a problem. This especially rings true if you are hosting the meal and the term “gluten-free” isn’t...
Reasons to Buy Holiday Gifts Locally this Season
With this year's holiday gift-buying frenzy already picking up speed, we all have a choice to make: do we purchase gifts for our loved ones from large corporations, or do we spend our dollars in our own communities and buy from local business owners? Buying locally has innumerable advantages. As Paul Miller, the Coordinator for the Office of Sustainability in...
