A healthy meal has a variety of whole foods A healthy meal is based on whole foods. The foundation is a variety of fresh vegetables. Best is a mix of both raw and cooked vegetables. Most should be complex carbohydrates…
Legumes Create A Personal Blue Zone
Legumes are part of a healthy whole food diet One of the best healthy diet tips I can give is to eat more legumes. As more studies are done and analyzed, it is becoming obvious that a whole food diet…
More Fiber Is Healthier In Many Ways
What is dietary fiber? Fiber is a large group of nutrient compounds. Dietary fiber is not usually digested or absorbed in the stomach or small intestine. It is present in almost all plant based foods. Whole foods contain more fiber…
Eat More Vegetables For Better Health
Why eat more vegetables? Every healthy whole food diet should include plenty of vegetables. Vegetables contain a wide range of anti-inflammatory compounds. The natural soluble and insoluble fiber in all vegetables promotes health in many ways. A wide variety of…
Matcha Tea for Better Health
Matcha tea is the new “in” drink. Its new-found popularity is well earned. Matcha provides all of the health benefits(confirmed and/or only suspected) of regular green leaf tea, but supercharged. Why is Matcha tea different? Matcha is made from the…
Making Fermented Foods At Home
Fermented foods are easy to make and very nutritious Making fermented foods at home is easy and takes little time. Fermentation adds vitamin B12, plus other vitamins and antioxidant compounds to vegetables, as a byproduct of the lacto-bacteria that do…
For More Nutrition, Don’t Peel Veggies
Why we should not peel our fruits and vegetables If you want to get more nutrition from all of your fruits and vegetables, stop peeling them and eat the skin, too. And with the price of food these days, I…
A Whole Food Diet For Everyone
What is a whole food diet? A whole food diet means eating real food as close to the way nature provides it as possible. It is eating food that our great grandparents would recognize. Whole food diets consist of whole…
Intermittent Fasting And Health
About fasting The first thing most people think of when they hear the word “fasting” is multiple days without food. Those who have never skipped more than a meal or two think about how horrible the hunger must be and…
My Ten Top Tips For Better Health
There are things we all know we should do to improve our health. Things that really should be habits if we want to be as healthy as possible. But life is busy and old habits are hard to break. This…