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How To Lose Weight Fast

I’ve seen my weight fluctuate a lot since high school, but every single time I am determined to lose weight I do, and when I want it to, it can happen very quickly. Why?...

Can You Eat Too Much Protein?

The short answer is yes. Want more of an answer? Excessive amounts of protein, via animal products, plants, or supplementation, can be harmful to your body, causing damage to your kidneys and liver. Now...

How To Stay Healthy During The Zombie Apocalypse

Unless You Immediately Get Eaten By The Zombies You assume that in the event of a zombie apocalypse you’re not going to care about your health. You think that you’ll be so focused on...

7 Tips To Improve Your Digestion

Ever feel like you need to improve your digestion? Whenever there are family gatherings, like during Christmas, Thanksgiving, and birthdays, food tends to play a major part. Turkey, gravy, stuffing, ham, potatoes, and cheese,...
alkaline fruits and vegetables

Is Your Acid vs Alkaline Balance Important?

Our blood sits at a pH of 7.4. This means it leans, ever so slightly, alkaline. If something were to happen in our body and this somehow changed, even by a small amount, like...
Eating soy

Is Soy Bad For You? Or Is It The Best?

There is a lot of controversy around soy, and some of it is pretty extreme. Many people wonder, ‘is soy bad or is it good?’ I’ve been searching through some amazing nutritional sources and...

Perils Of An Underactive Stomach

Digestive problems seem to be one of the most common ailments people complain about; and one of the most medicated. Then again, it’s easier to take a pill and make the pain go away...
Where do you get your protein?

How To Respond To “Where Do You Get Your Protein?”

To Prepare You For This Inevitable Conversation: “Hey, you want half of my turkey sandwich?” “No thanks, I don’t eat meat” “Really? But where do you get your protein?” If you’re vegan, or even...

Want To Do A Potato Cleanse?

What I’ve learned since educating myself in nutrition is that if something is edible there’s a fad diet for it. Some of those diets have merit and are based in actual science, and others...

How To Detox Without A ‘Cleanse’

Want to know how to detox? It’s all about the liver. While some people swear by juice cleanses or water fasts to detoxify their body, it isn’t necessary if you have a healthy diet....
Stressed woman at work

Are You Chronically Stressed?

Have you ever wondered if you’re chronically stressed? In other words, does everyday feels like a never ending onslaught of anxiety? There’s an interesting idea about stress. It’s that our bodies simply cannot handle...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...