Also On Wellness

Tagged as Nutrition

Eat Nuts and Seeds for a Longer, Healthier Life
Did you know that there is an association between eating nuts and seeds and living a longer, healthier life? It’s true. Still, I find people who shy away from eating nuts and seeds because they think of them as fattening. Yes, nuts and seeds -are- calorie-dense, so they are not for snacking. But they have many wonderful properties and are packed with helpful nutrients, so a more healthful approach...
January 12, 2016
10 Unrealistic Health & Nutritional Goals Bound To Fail
Although there is no question that we should all set goals meant to improve our health, such goals, though, need to be realistic, measurable and achievable.  Oftentimes, however, people set goals that will likely end in failure - sometimes, it may not even be humanly possible, given the circumstances, to complete them. Having said that, "unrealistic" is NOT (at least in this article) synonymous with...
June 5, 2015
Label Lessons for Healthy School Lunches
Packing healthy lunches for the kids can be downright stressful. How can you be sure that you are packing your kid's lunch box with foods that are both delicious AND nutritious? These days, food companies can be deliberately deceitful with misleading and seductive marketing. How do you know you're not just feeding your kids sugar, GMOs and chemicals dressed up in "natural" packaging? - Avoid the Scary...
May 12, 2015
Are You Sure You're Getting Your Essential Nutrients?
Wellness Tip:- With today's hurried lifestyles, people often fail to eat enough real nutrient-dense food. The reality is that most of us are living with micronutrient deficiencies and imbalances which lead to a myriad of health issues. Even if you do eat reasonably well, you can still struggle to get the nutrients you need from anything grown in modern day nutrient-depleted soils. Taking supplements...
January 21, 2015
Why You Should Care About Bees (For Your Health)
Bees are essential to the plant foods we eat. In the U.S. alone, industrious bees annually help pollinate crops worth more than $200 billion. Pollination is the main job they perform for humans. Raw honey is the main product they produce. What is “raw" honey? Isn't all honey the same—a sweet sticky substance made by bees that you add to your tea or drizzle into a bowl of cereal? - Wrong! Raw organic...
December 21, 2014
Paleo 101
If the first image that comes to mind when you hear the phrase "Paleo diet" is one of a cave man then you at least have a foggy notion of the bare bones of this diet. Beyond that, things might seem murky. As modern man and woman continue on our often frustrating path toward health and fitness, many of our contemporaries subscribe to the notion that we could in fact learn a thing or two about diet from...
March 23, 2014
TASTE THE RAINBOW
If you have investigated alternative healing, you have mostlikely come across the name of Deepak Chopra. For the last couple of decades he has introduced the ancient practicesof India, his homeland, and incorporated the concept of mind-body-and soul intoour western methods of medicine. Our brain and body connection isn’t alwaysobvious to those who are living busy lives. We tend to look at our bodies...
January 10, 2014
Organic Shopping 101
You hear a lot about organic food and personal items these days, but how do you know which products are worth spending the extra money on? It all depends on what is important to you. If you are set on buying all of your items locally, it can be difficult to find organic products that fit the bill. Is it worth it to buy strawberries that were trucked all the way across the country? - Why It’s a Good...
June 11, 2013
Medical Nutrition to Replace Statins?
Attention: Chef Gunnar Thopmson of Elderberry House, Chateau du Sureau outside of Yosemite Park. (Could someone tell me how to pronounce this? ) Anyway, nice talk with Gunnar about healthy eating and food choices and the importance of dirt to kitchen time of raw or unprocessed vegetables and fruits. The diets that exemplify this concept are the Pan Asian and the Mediterranean Diets or PAM. Gunnar is...
December 11, 2012
Why Take Nutritional Supplements, When You Already Have a Powerful Inner Pharmacy?
Which chemicals your inner pharmacy produces, as well as the quantity of those chemicals, is highly influenced by the raw materials available in your body. In other words, the building blocks that you provide to your inner pharmacy through your diet and nutritional supplements greatly determines what chemicals can be created within your body that govern your physical and mental state. Want to produce...
October 5, 2007