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Power Food: Kefir

The Champagne of Dairy Kefir is derived from the Turkish word “keif” which means “good-feeling.” It has been around for centuries, originating in the Russian Caucasian mountains. Kefir gets the nickname, “champagne of dairy”, due to the fact that it foams and fizzes when you shake it up. Kefir looks like drinkable yogurt however its […]


Power Food: Green Tea

3 Great Ways Green Tea Will Make You Leaner & Happier Tea is the second most popular drink in the world, behind only water. The earliest documented use of tea as a beverage dates back to China in 59 B.C. It has been used for medicinal purposes for over 3,000 years. Green, Black, White and […]


Boost Your Good Cholesterol

5 Ways to Increase Your Good Cholesterol and Protect Your Heart Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in America. Researchers estimate that someone in America has a heart attack or stroke every 25 seconds. What can you do to make sure that you don’t suffer the same fate? Fortunately, there are numerous […]


Power Food: Eggs

Health Food Phoenix Once quarantined as the food you must avoid if you had heart issues, a new growing body of research touting their nutritional benefits have caused eggs to rise from their nutritional grave to take their rightful place as a true power food. Cholesterol, Eggs, and Your Heart Improving heart health has long […]


Eating Out Survival Guide

Eating Out is No Longer a ‘Treat’ Eating out at a restaurant used to be considered a treat. An uncommon indulgence. However, since the 1970s eating away from home has become more and more common with Americans, now eating upwards of 43% of their meals and 32% of their calories away from home (up from […]


Dangerous Calories

Liquid Calories could be Sabotaging Your Health – How to Stop It From Happening While all 6 of the Pillars of Nutrition are important – this could be the most important. For many people, consuming calorie-containing beverages, (more specifically sugar- sweetened beverages), is the difference between losing 15-20lbs, or not. On any given day, a […]


The Clean Fifteen

15 Foods With the Lowest Levels of Pesticides You know you should eat more fruits and vegetables. You probably don’t go a day without hearing or reading a news report about some newly discovered health benefit. But, you also hear an occasional report about the high levels of pesticides used on the produce in your […]


Power Food: Blueberries

1 Cup of Blueberries a Day Could Keep Your Memory from Going Away Whenever you find an article about anti-aging foods, super foods, or brain boosting foods, you can bet that blueberries are at the top of the list. Over the past decade, blueberries have achieved the status of the ultimate health food. But, unlike […]


Power Food: Lean Beef

Heart Health Promoter or Destroyer? Red meat has long been implicated as a food that will destroy your heart health…so how could it be considered a power food? Let’s look at the nutritional power of lean beef and the misinterpretation of scientific research that has given it a bad name. Red Meat vs. Lean Beef […]


Power Food: Asparagus

Improve Your Health at Less Than 4 Calories a Stalk Modern food lovers like to think that we discovered everything, but we can’t claim asparagus. Asparagus was originally found growing on Mediterranean hillsides, and recipes date back to late fourth-century Rome and Apicius Book III, one of the oldest known cookbooks. Early American colonists referred […]