Category: nutrition

How Blood Glucose Damages Bone Health

In addition to following a diet that is made up of whole plant foods, it’s important to keep the glycemic load of your diet in mind. Using more beans, nuts, and seeds as major calorie sources, instead of grains and potatoes, reduces the overall glycemic load of the diet. As more and more research is conducted, we are…


Men, Milk, and Prostate Cancer

Does Milk Really Do A Body Good? Those milk mustache images and commercials that took the country by storm a few years ago were part of a highly effective marketing campaign with many celebrities jumping on board. Unfortunately, the advertising that resulted may have misled many men into thinking they were doing themselves a favor…


How to Make: Homemade Almond Milk (Video)

A recipe for fresh, homemade almond milk is a easy to make from scratch. This homemade almond milk recipe is a completely raw food recipe, vegan friendly, gluten free, healthy treat! Almond milk is one of the most popular dairy milk substitutes. It has tons of health benefits! However, store-bought almond milk generally contains additives…


How to Choose the Right Probiotics for You

Probiotics are popular. According to research, the global probiotics market was determined to be $48.38 billion in 2018 and is projected to reach $75.9 billion by 2027. That’s a lot of good bacteria! But how do you know which probiotics are right for you and your family? What Are Probiotics? Probiotics are live beneficial bacteria (and…


4 Reasons for Insomnia and Light Sleep—Do This Instead

Getting a good night’s rest is not only important for starting your day refreshed, but serves an important biological process for restoring the body. Dr. Chun-Hsu Chen, a doctor of Naturopathic Medicine at Bastyr University, points out that if cells are damaged during the day, the body will repair the damage at night during sleep,…


The Essentials of Vitamin C

Vitamin C gets a lot of love from nutritionists. PubMed lists some 70,000-plus studies into this essential vitamin, looking at everything from its effect on sepsis to how it affects nanoparticle additives in food. When it comes to its potential as a disease fighter, those who study these things are pretty enthusiastic about it. “Vitamin…


What to Eat to Help with Seasonal Allergies (Hay Fever)

What did a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study of a food that costs pennies a day for ragweed allergy sufferers find? A “great deal is asked of our immune system. It is firstly required to respond rapidly and violently to invaders, but at the same time limits both the duration of its response and the collateral damage to the host.”…


Best Food for Hay Fever (Seasonal Allergies)

  “[A] great deal is asked of [our] immune system. On one hand, it has “to respond rapidly and violently to invaders, but at the same time limits both the… response and the collateral damage to the host.” Anaphylactic shock, like when someone with a peanut allergy drops dead after eating a peanut, is an example…


Magnesium Could Offer Fresh Hope to Tinnitus Sufferers

You may be familiar with the experience of a ringing sensation in your ears after a night out enjoying some good music. Perhaps you’ve never given it a second thought as the sound normally disappears on its own. But what if you were to wake up in the morning and still have the ringing in…


Basil: Herb of Scorpions, Doctors, and Kings

For most Americans, the scent of basil usually means Italian food. But this herb is good for much more than just pasta. Some say the basil name comes from “basilisk”—the Greek word for dragon or lizard. Others say it comes from “basileus,” the Greek word for king. Tales from basil folklore support both interpretations. Basil…