What is the Best Time of Day for You to Eat?
Adelle Davis, a popular 1960's nutritionist, once said: "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper." While every individual has different specific dietary needs, there is a lot of wisdom in Davis' words. The time that you eat certain foods can significantly affect your health. Morning A study performed at the Harvard University School of Public...
How Weather Impacts Your Health
Most likely you’re already aware of how weather changes can make you feel. Some people feel more invigorated when a thunderstorm hits, others feel anxious, and some may even suffer from an asthma attack. A sunny day can be energizing and rain can make us feel a bit gloomy. While we know the weather can affect our mood, it...
Healthy Foods to Include in Your Holiday Feast
The holidays don’t have to mean indulging in unhealthy meals; in fact, there are numerous nutritious and delicious foods that can help make your holiday feast tasty and guilt free! Free Range Turkey Turkey is usually the star of the show at Thanksgiving as well as other holiday meals. That’s a good thing, as it’s an excellent healthy source of protein,...
Add Spice to Your Love Life and More With Ashwagandha
Ashwagandha, otherwise known as Winter Cherry or Indian Ginseng, is one of the most revered herbs in Ayurveda, the millennia-old practice of Indian medicine. Used for centuries to treat a number of ailments, few of us today realize the benefits of this extremely potent herb. Check out these four ways ashwagandha can benefit your health. Enhance Sexual Energy While this much-revered...
It’s Back! The McRib and Other Processed “Delights”
It is astounding that people actually get excited when they hear that McDonald's restaurants are going to be featuring the infamous McRib Sandwich for a "limited time only," once again. Introduced in 1981, just before the chicken McNugget, this so-called "boneless pork" product is more like a marriage of pig parts, including tripe, stomach and heart. When a Reddit user...
One Third of Population May be More at Risk of Colorectal Cancer from Processed Meat
We've said it before and we'll say it again - processed meat is hazardous to your health. The various chemicals and copious amounts of sodium it contains have no business being introduced into your body. On top of the general - and already substantial - risk factors that these chemically-treated products carry, a new study has found that about one...
Your DNA Determines Whether You are a Night Owl or an Early Riser
Are you a night owl or a morning person? New research  from one of the world’s leading sleep exerts, Till Roenneberg, a professor of chronobiology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, says that if you try to live and work outside of your natural circadian rhythm you may be negatively affecting your health. Roenneberg says that chronotypes refer to whether...
The Key to Your Breakthrough 
(It’s Not What You Think)
Have you ever heard the mantra, "No pain, no gain"? Sure, we all have. It's a notion that the harder we work, the more successful we'll be. Ironically, this saying is mostly associated with exercise and the fitness world.And just in case you're wondering, the irony lies in the fact that working "harder" to lose weight and get healthy...
2 Organic Organ Meats You Should be Eating
With the rise in popularity of the Paleo Diet, organ meats have received more attention than they have in quite some time. However, many people still don't understand how to best incorporate these vital nutritional powerhouses into their diet.Here are 2 organ meats that are worth trying. Organic Beef Tongue Beef tongue is a muscle meat and a great source...
Mexico Approves Junk Food Tax
In Mexico, the average citizen is said to drink about 43 gallons of soda each year, or 40% more than the average American, which ranks the nation as the largest consumer of soft drinks in the world, according to the World Health Organization. Almost one-third of its citizens are obese and 70% are overweight, prompting lawmakers to approve the...
