7 Fun Fruit Ideas for Summer
Fruits play an extremely important role in a well-rounded, healthy diet. Fruit is packed with a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, cancer fighting antioxidants, and fiber. You don’t want to leave this food group out of your diet! During the summer months there are so many beautiful and delicious fruits to be used and [...]
The Important Nutrient that Most Americans are Lacking
Are you getting enough dietary fiber? According to statistics, you are most likely falling short. The average American consumes a meager 12 to 17 grams per day, which is only about half the amount recommended. Dietary fiber is a type of carbohydrate that is present in the plant foods we eat. What makes it different [...]
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Foodie Friday: Chia Seeds
Hailing from Mexico, chia seeds were a main staple of the Aztec diet. Eaten for strength, these seeds have recently become more popular, although they are still relatively unfamiliar around the world. Chia seeds are truly a super food, as they are extremely nutrient dense and contain few calories per serving. Chia seeds contain twenty-seven [...]
5 Ways to Get More Fiber!
The American Heart Association recommends getting 21-25 grams of fiber each day if your a woman, and 30-38 grams if you are a man. Do you think you are getting this much fiber each day? If you are not then you are not alone, the average American has a daily fiber intake of only about [...]
Foodie Friday: Dates
While certainly not the most attractive fruit, dates might just be the energy-boosting fruit that you’re missing out on! Date palms are among the oldest cultivated trees, having been grown in North America for at least 8,000 years. Classified according to their moisture content (soft, semisoft, dry), most varieties found in North America are semisoft [...]
High Five for Fiber
Whether you’re trying to gain or lose weight, currently in a weight plateau or just trying things out to get healthy this season, boosting up your fiber intake brings forth smiles all around. Americans today only take in about half of the daily recommended needs (25-30 grams a day) for a healthy diet, which increases [...]
Top 12 Healthy Pantry Essentials
Now that you’ve mastered the art of healthy grocery shopping, you’re probably wondering how else you can make healthier choices in the kitchen! One of the easiest ways to eat healthier is to cook your own meals, as much as possible. That way, you know exactly what you are putting on your plates and in [...]
What’s Your Body Telling You About Your Diet?
In the world of health there are intake target numbers for each vitamin, mineral, macronutrient, micronutrient. It is nearly impossible for an individual to have these all memorized, so how do you know if your meeting your needs? If your not willing to sit down and count every morsel of food you consume and analyze [...]
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5 Tips for Healthy Eyes
As we learn more and more about the relationship between diet and disease, we’re realizing that good nutrition can help with many health concerns, at any age. A lot of research is being done with macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness, to find ways to prevent this condition through proper nutrition. In particular, lutein [...]
4 Reasons to Eat the Inca Gold: TRY Quinoa!
A whole-grain seed with South American roots, and referred to by the ancient Incas as their “mother grain,” quinoa (pronounced keen-wah) is gaining tremendous appeal among the health-conscious. Packed with essential nutrients including protein, vitamins E and B6, and magnesium, the quinoa plant has ties to uber-healthy greens like chards and spinach. Here are four [...]
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