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Healthy & Safe Cookware: Your Essential Guide
We know that eating healthy food is important for long-term health, but did you know that what cookware you use to cook your food can also have a significant impact on your health? Most cookware that is used today leaches harmful chemicals into our food. It is important that we use safe, healthy cookware that doesn't negatively affect the food we...
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Natural Ways to Beat the Winter Blues and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as seasonal depression or, in its milder form, the winter blues, is a type of depression linked to seasonal changes. Understanding its root cause can help us maintain good health during the fall and winter months. There are a few natural strategies...
Energy Drinks: Their Health Risks and What to Drink Instead
Energy drinks are big business worldwide. The global energy drinks market is projected to reach $125.11 billion (US) by 2030. People of all ages are consuming these drinks, drawn in by claims of increased energy, better focus, weight loss, and other reported health benefits from ingredients like...
Tips for Choosing a Natural Mattress & Bedding
There are numerous ways to pursue healthy living: exercise, consistent daily activity, drinking purified water, eating a whole-food diet, reducing sugar, getting the right amount of sun exposure, and proper sleep, to name a few. Though we may incorporate many of these preventive strategies into...
The Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
For the majority of our evolutionary history, we lived in a “feast or famine” state, meaning there were times when food was plentiful and times when it was scarce. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors had to actively search for available food sources and, at times, experienced periods with little to no...
Daily Activity and Exercise: Both Are Essential for Good Health
Daily activity and consistent exercise have long been used as a type of preventive medicine, improving mood and well-being along with decreasing the risk of many chronic health conditions, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, dementia, depression, anxiety,...
The Importance of Decreasing Daily Sugar Consumption
The Sugar Dilemma: Natural and Added Sugars Our bodies use food as fuel by converting carbohydrates, fats, and protein into glucose. Glucose, a simple monosaccharide sugar, is the main source of energy for our bodies. While our bodies are very adept at metabolizing glucose, it is important to...
Why Pastured Pork Is the Healthier Choice
The awareness of real food continues to gain momentum for food producers and consumers alike. For producers of pastured pork, also known as pasture-raised pork, the end goal is to produce a real food that provides the best nutritional benefits from animals that are raised in the most ethical and...
The Problem with Trans Fats, Vegetable Oils, & Seed Oils
If necessity is the mother of invention, then this is true for the origin of artificial trans fats. In the early 20th century, trans fats became a convenient way to provide a more stable and solid form of unsaturated fats in food products in order to extend their shelf life and prevent foods from...
Choosing a Midwife for Your Pregnancy and Delivery
Pregnancy and childbirth is a transformative journey filled with much planning and preparation. While most women choose to have their pregnancy and delivery managed solely by an obstetrician, or OB/GYN, in a hospital setting, others choose the care of a licensed midwife for a more holistic and...
The Health Benefits of Mindful Breathing
On average, our lungs breathe in and out around 20,000 times a day, something we do without putting much thought into it. As simple as this may seem, breathing is a process that requires our nose, mouth, throat, trachea, lungs, diaphragm, and other surrounding muscles to work together in tandem to...
