In today’s fast-paced, high-stress world, energy is too often in short supply. Modern life seems designed to drain us of our inner resources, and many people feel so sapped at the end of the day that they do not even have time to pursue personal interests. This can be incredibly frustrating at times. For example, [...]
If you pay attention to the news, you probably hear all sorts of conflicting things about the healthiness or unhealthiness of caffeine. Every time there is a new study, the news tends to report the most sensational details without taking the full results into account. Hence, the public perception about caffeine can be rather confused. [...]
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By Marc Courtiol Becoming a vegetarian seems like it should be simple. You just stop eating meat, right? That is of course true, but if you want to do it right-in a way that is healthy and sustainable-it is important to think about how to make the transition. After years of eating one way, the [...]
By Lisa Pecos If you pay attention to trends in natural health, you are probably aware of the raw food movement. But for those who have never heard of it, it is simple: The raw food diet, sometimes known as raw foodism, is the practice of eating nothing but uncooked and unprocessed foods. The diet [...]
Jamell Andrews For conscious eaters, there are many disturbing things about the modern food industry. And while there is much that needs improvement, the one thing that sets all natural foodies’ teeth on edge is the horrendous treatment of animals in today’s corporate farms. Many consumers are fed up with the food industry’s way of [...]
By Marc Courtiol For anyone over 30, the effects of aging can be felt in a number of ways, perhaps none more frustrating than those affecting brain health. Slow thinking, difficulty remembering, poor concentration, inability to multitask-all are natural symptoms of declining brain health. But do we have to accept them? Can good habits and [...]
If you have been to the natural foods section of the grocery store lately, you may have noticed the growing abundance of nondairy milks, including soy milk, rice milk, and milks made from various nuts. While most people are perfectly happy with cow’s milk, there are a number of ways in which the alternative milks [...]
What if there were a natural substance that had no calories, was sweeter than sugar, and did not cause any of the health problems associated with sweet foods? What if, moreover, this substance actually had health benefits, containing numerous beneficial minerals and antioxidants? Many people might assume that this magical sweetener was too good to [...]
Selenium is an essential trace mineral and it plays a fundamental part in our health. Mostly, it is found in the kidneys, liver, pancreas, spleen and the lymph nodes so a large range of bodily functions can be affected by the levels of selenium we ingest.