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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,...
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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...

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...
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How Probiotics Help

How probiotics help: They’re your happy little bacteria friends. At some point in your life, someone has likely told you that you should be taking probiotics. That someone was probably an Activia commercial telling...
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Why Do We Need Vitamin A?

Do we need vitamin A? Maybe it’s just a really good excuse to eat mango. Although, if you enjoy the function of your eyes, appreciate your immune system, and enjoy the use of your...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sick A Lot? Here’s Why Your Immune System Sucks

Your immune system is an amazing thing. Sure, when you’re home sick with giant puffy red eyes and an entire box of Kleenex shoved up your nose, it probably seems like your immune system has...

The 7 Deadly Sins & Lies of Dieting

“She must be a size 4. Why can’t I be a size 4? She just has better genes than me. So unfair. Why does she get to look like that?” Everyone has to start...

Eat For You

Some people seem stuck in the idea that they’re trapped by what their family or spouse eats. They believe that having a vegetarian husband makes them automatically vegetarian too; or having pressure from a...

My Super Effective Cold Remedy

Some people have cold remedies they swear by – chicken soup, bone broth, maybe some weird exotic fruit, or just enough cough syrup to keep them asleep all weekend long. As you may have...

5 Awesome Health Hacks

Have you ever said “I want to be healthier”? It’s a pretty generic statement, but if you want some help in achieving it, these 5 health hacks are a good place to start.

The Body-Shaming Trend

Have you noticed it? In the past year or two it seems like the internet has grown more judgmental about other people’s bodies than ever before.