Big Food Manufacturers Back Weight Watchers: Should we be Worried?
The Weight Watchers diet has over one million followers worldwide. Many people rely on its guidelines in their journeys towards weight loss. However, the inherent philosophy of this diet is flawed, and its methods and marketing of processed foods is not the way to go if you want to lose weight AND be healthy. The Weight Watchers system gives foods...
6 Powerful Antioxidants and Only 13 Calories: Eat Bok Choy Today
Bok choy (Brassica campestris L.) is known as a leafy Chinese cabbage and is one of the most popular crops grown in oriental regions such as China, the Philippines and Vietnam. This vegetable has gained tremendous popularity in America, where the sweet and nutritious stalks and mild leaves are being discovered. Also known as pe-tsai, petsay, white-celery mustard, Chinese white...
Does Your Cutting Board Harbor Bacteria?
Are you confused about which kind of cutting board is safest? With common outbreaks of foodborne illness, food safety experts have all eyes on the kitchen and primarily on counters and cutting boards, where these bacteria seem to spread. Obviously, we all want to do what we can to limit the spread of nasty bacteria in the kitchen, but is...
3 Things About Cravings You May Not Know
O.k. It is 3 o'clock in the afternoon again, and again you want a piece of chocolate. What is it about this particular time of the day that makes you desire a smooth, rich and dark piece of your favorite chocolate? Perhaps it is not chocolate that you crave, but rather a nice smooth glass of red wine, or even...
A Revolutionary Perspective on Cancer, and What We Can Do To Lessen Our Chances of Triggering It
Physicists Paul Davies and Charles Lineweaver have proposed a new theory on the origin and inner workings of cancer, one that is dramatically different from how the disease is commonly viewed. Conventional thinking regarding cancer explains it as a series of random genetic mutations that accumulate over time. However, Davies and Linweaver's theory, detailed in this month's issue of Physics World,...
McDonald’s Fries MUCH Worse than the Average French Fry – They Have 17 Ingredients!
We all know that McDonald's isn’t going to get confused as a health food location - that’s no secret. However, just how bad their french fries are is staggering. In an effort to be more 'transparent' about what's in their food, perhaps to get consumer points for honesty, McDonald's has revealed that their french fries contain 17 ingredients. The run-of-the-mill...
5 Health Boosting Benefits of Beetroot Juice
Classed as a powerful superfood by today's nutritional health experts, beetroots are commonly cooked or sliced thin for salads, are also easy to juice. Beet juice has long been touted as a blood purifier and blood builder because it helps build red blood cells. Ironically, at one point in history, beet greens were eaten but the roots tossed aside...
Is this Perimenopause or am I Going Mad?
Perimenopause means the time “around” menopause, but it is used to describe the start of a decline in estrogen levels that lead to menopause and the time that women begin to notice menopausal symptoms. As this can occur to some women as early as their 30s, it may lead them to wonder if they are literally “going mad.” For most...
5 Minutes of Meditation Melts Stress Away
A new study recently published in the European Heart Journal shows that the extent to which people perceive that their stress levels are affecting their health correlates with the physical reality of stress taking a negative toll on their bodies, and even increasing their risk of a heart attack. These findings suggest that if stress perceptions were changed, a...
3 Reasons to Start Your Day with Warm Lemon Water
Ayurvedic philosophy states that the choices that we make each day can either build us up or make us more susceptible to life-destroying disease. Because we are exposed to so many environmental toxins from what we breathe in to what we put on our skin, in addition to the damaging impacts of our Western diet, our body quickly shifts into...
