Romaine Lettuce Vitamin C Feeling the force of cold and flu season? Besides hitting up the local pharmacy for over-the-counter remedies — or going to the doctor for a prescription — more and more people are turning to vitamins that boost the immune system for cold and flu home self-care. People are learning ...
Elderberry Bring on the superfoods! The value of nutrition as a cornerstone to health is garnering more and more attention. So is looking to our diets with a “food as medicine” perspective— and no nutritive approach is more popular right now than using antioxidant rich foods to boost the immune system. There are ...
When winter looms around the corner, it’s time to zero in on some of those important nutrients for immunity and wellness. Vitamin C high foods quickly comes to mind at times like these— associated highly with fighting colds, coughs, and flus by helping give our immune systems a little boost. But many people don’t realize ...
Unwellness can sneak up on you and your body in a myriad of ways. Some of these ways may be in the form of major health conditions, while in other cases it’s something simple that you can easily correct yourself with a little extra self-care at home. One of these sneaky ways is through electrolytes ...
Everyone has encountered the sleep deprivation effect at some point in their lives. Sometimes getting good sleep just isn’t possible. That said, it’s important to know all about sleep deprivation's effect on the brain and body. If sleep deprivation becomes a regular occurrence, there could be a high price to pay! We spend about one-third ...
Without even knowing it, you might have a digestion problem. Especially here in America where foods for healthy gut are scant, food quality is low, and there is hardly any nutrition and fiber— yet tons of processing and dangerous sugars— in the average diet, there are certain digestive issues that make no sign or sound, ...
Credit: Adrian White Digestion problems are becoming all too common in more and more people. Some of it has to do with diet choices, some with lower food quality these days— and some of it may be due to lack of prebiotic foods, probiotics, fiber-rich vegetables, digestive enzymes, and more. Prebiotic and probiotic ...
It’s America’s favorite of the five tastes: sweetness. But when you look at the state of health in our country, you have to wonder: are sugar’s effects on brain and body worth it? How is sugar bad for you exactly? If we eat so much sugar, what is its real connection to our country’s biggest ...
Photo Credit: Shutterstock It’s tempting to say, “kids have it so easy these days.” But when we take a close look at the facts and statistics, kids mental health is under way more stress (pun intended) than decades ago— and some have even completed research and studies that show this. The question is: ...
Dried shiitake | Photo Credit: Adrian White Gone are the days where we just saw mushrooms as an odd choice for pizza topping. Now, the benefits of mushrooms for health are taking the world by storm— shocking benefits that are very new to health food lovers and wellness aficionados of the Western world, ...