Being A Health Nut & Chocoholic – Healthy Chocolate Is Expensive
I have high standards for what I eat, as should we all; but unfortunately those high standards do not come cheap. My weekly grocery bills are much higher than they would be if I...
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 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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Top 5 Favorite Yoga YouTube Channels
Healthy living doesn’t just mean eating right (sorry), it means you need to exercise too! Yoga is a fantastic way to get that exercise in while improving your flexibility and helping your circulation.
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.
The Four Horsemen of the Health Apocalypse
This study says that, statistically, you’re unhealthy… unless you’re one of the 2.7% of people that isn’t.