Eating a wide variety of healthy whole foods is the key to maximum health. It is easy, though, to fall into the habit of eating only what is readily available and easily prepared. It is also easier to eat what…
Roasted Spaghetti Squash Recipe
Spaghetti squash is a member of the hard, or winter, squash family which also includes acorn and butternut squash. This family of vegetables are good sources of carotenoids, lutein, zeaxanthin and beta-cryptoxanthin. Though relatively high in starches, the complex…
Grapes – Good For Health
Grapes are a type of berry that have been cultivated for at least 8,000 years. A woody deciduous(meaning they drop their leaves during winter) vine, grapes are in the genus vitus. There are two main lineages of grapes, one native…
Eat The Whole Beet For Maximum Nutrition
Beets are part of the very large chenopod genus of plants, which also includes spinach, quinoa, Russian thistle and lamb’s quarter. Commercially grown beets in grocery stores are almost always Detroit dark reds but beets, like chenopods, come in many…