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Sarah Soper

Sarah Soper

Registered Holistic Nutritionist with a passion for healthy food, sustainability, fitness, and non-toxic living.

5 Signs Your Becoming Health Obsessed

Not that caring about your health is a bad thing. However, caring too about your health, and veering into the territory of obsession isn’t healthy either. I’ve put together a list of five signs...

Do New Year’s Resolutions Require Big Life Changes?

Or Maybe We Expect Change To Happen Just Because We Want It Why do we make New Years resolutions? Because we love the idea of a fresh start? We can binge on junk food and drinks...

Why Is Losing Weight So Hard?

Yummy, Calorie-Rich Things Are To Blame Why is it hard to lose weight? I think it’s in the math. To lose weight you need to burn more calories than you consume right? Essentially, yes....

Why You Need Raw Foods

Quick, Easy, Unprocessed Raw Foods = Yum! Here’s yet another reason why salads are good for you; because unless your salads only contain meat (unlikely); most of what’s in your salad is raw vegetables; and...

Eco-Friendly Holiday Gifts

Yay Holiday Gifties! Do I start my Christmas shopping in the summer because I’m nuts or because I really, really just want to get it over with? Yes. Unfortunately, I usually don’t finish my Christmas...

Do You Have A Food Addiction?

Or Do You Just Really, Really Love Chocolate? Is a food addiction the hardest addiction to break because we need food to survive? Does that make it the easiest addiction to justify? Did you say...

5 Reasons Why You Should Probably Avoid Coffee

5 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD AVOID (OR MINIMIZE) COFFEE I know, I know. There are at least a million articles on the web telling you the benefits of coffee and another million on the harms...

Is ‘Coca-Cola Life’ healthy?

When I saw the ad for Coca-Cola Life, I was pretty sure the colour on my TV had died. Nope. Coca-Cola Life is green. I haven’t drank Coca-Cola in years, but this intrigued me. Is...

Our Skewed View of Health

In the household I grew up in, there was no ‘healthy’ food or ‘unhealthy’ food; there was just food. Sure, some food might be ‘better for you’ than others, but we didn’t really know...

How to Eat Less Meat

It’s difficult to convince people they need to eat less meat. Eating meat with every meal is a cultural tradition so ingrained in our society that those who opt of of the traditional eating patterns,...

Pokemon Go For Your Health

Video games that successfully combine physical activity with fun are exactly what our sedentary society needs, and if you’ve played Pokemon Go, you know how well this combination works. Pokemon Go is a game for your...

Why Are GMOs So Scary?

There’s a lot of debate regarding genetically modified foods. Are they as nutritious as non-GMO food? Do they taste the same as the original? Will they be responsible for the onset of the zombie apocalypse? (Am...

5 Fad Diets That Will Never Be Real

The Syrup diet; welcome to sweet, sweet, syrupy heaven. With a huge variety of foods to choose from, this diet is the best chance for turning your frown upside down. Unlike some diets that claim...

Is the Ornish Diet the Best Diet?

The Paleo Diet might be the most popular fad diet right now. It’s built upon the idea that the food that has allowed humans to evolve to where we are today should be the food we...

How To Live to be 100

My goal is to live to 120 years old. It’s a goal that, if I make, I’ll be pretty impressed with myself. If not… I suppose 119 will do. I just finished reading Healthy...

How To Count Calories

Counting calories can be a lot of work. Keeping track of everything you eat in the correct amounts get tricky when you eat out or make something at home with a lot of different...

Raspberry Fudge Squares – Health Video Pick of the Week

Yay for healthy desserts! This one comes from one of my favorite YouTubers, FullyRawKristina. It’s a beautiful mix of pitted dates, pecans, raw cacao powder, mulberries, sweet cacao nibs, and raspberries that results in a delicious...

10 Elements of a Healthy Diet

The primary elements of a healthy diet involve going back to the basics; in other words, eating food how we used to: natural, unprocessed, clean, in-season, and local. I found these fantastic tips in the book...

The Benefits of Fat – Health Video Pick of the Week

There is a lot of fear surrounding fat in our diet, but it’s so important that we include healthy fat in our meals. As Joyous Health points out, fat helps with chemical reactions in the body, helps...

7 Awesome Non-Toxic Kids Clothing Brands

If you weren’t already aware, a lot of the clothes you buy for your kids are toxic. The problem is, the big retailers don’t seem to care. Studies have found children’s clothing made in...