By Lisa Pecos Is eating healthy one of your New Year’s resolution? Eating healthy can be daunting, but these 5 simple swaps will help. Not only are they easy changes to make, but they’re also delicious so you don’t feel…
Foods that Improve Circulation Naturally
Improve Blood Flow with the Foods You Eat Many of us are aware of the great importance of healthy blood circulation to our whole well-being. Poor circulation can result in milder problems, such as cold extremities and water retention; moderate…
Are Organ Meats Healthy?
Advantages of Eating Organ Meats In many cultures throughout the world, eating organ meats is not even up for discussion — they make up a regular part of a healthy diet, and no one thinks twice about it. In the…
Cholesterol Not as Bad as Once Thought
Health Experts Now Agree: Cholesterol Not as Bad as Most Doctors Believed For decades, Americans were told that they needed to carefully watch their cholesterol, as high cholesterol was linked to cardiovascular disease. Prescriptions in the United States for cholesterol-lowering…
Pesticides and Farmers’ Mental Health
Use of Pesticides Linked to Suicides, Depression Among Farmers As people have become increasingly concerned about toxic chemicals in our food, air and water, worries have been raised about what synthetic pesticides could be doing — or are doing —…
Fruits and Vegetables You Should Buy Organic
By now, a lot of us are becoming bigger fans of organic foods, even when we have to pay more for them. We know that buying organic beef, poultry and dairy means we’ll get products from animals that were not…
Fifteen Yummy, Healthy Low-Cal Snacks!
Sometimes, people watching their weight think that they have to deprive themselves of tasty, satisfying treats. Those small desserts with artificial sweeteners and the ones that weight-loss programs want to sell you for a big price … you’d have to…
Use of Herbicides in Genetically-Engineered Crops Is Increasing in the U.S.
Also: Minimizing Your Exposure to GE Foods More than 60 countries, including France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, require genetically-engineered foods and ingredients to be labeled, so that consumers know what they are buying. However, GE labeling is not…