Diet & Lifestyle

Plastics are everywhere – in food containers and toys, in cosmetics packaging and household utensils. While some plastics are eco-friendly and may be safe for kids, others contain harmful chemicals or cause dangerous pollution during manufacturing. It’s just about impossible to avoid plastics altogether, but you can look for plastics that are safest for your [...]

As the ketogenic diet gains popularity, it’s important to have a balanced discussion regarding the merits of this diet. Let me emphasize right out of the gate that this is not a diet without merits (excuse the double negative); in fact, it has significant therapeutic potential for some clinical pathologies. However, it is also a [...]

Fasting for weight loss might sound as silly as drinking water for thirst, but it’s not exactly the same thing. Let’s look at a special kind of fasting, called intermittent fasting (or IF), that can be a powerful tool on your fitness journey. Quite simply, intermittent fasting means not eating for a set period of [...]

Only a detailed and expert analysis is a guarantee that honey is all natural and organic. But, if you want to know whether the honey you just bought is natural, try these simple tricks. 1. Carefully Read The Label This is the very first step that will help you choose the right, additive-free honey. Producers [...]

The Two Big Lies of Type 2 Diabetes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLoaVNQ3rc Source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLoaVNQ3rc

Fruits and vegetables. [Infographic] This is what your grandma never taught you. By John Berardi and Ryan Andrews source (http://www.precisionnutrition.com/color-chart) Fruits and vegetables’ vibrant colors tell the story of their “super powers.” You see, it’s their “phytonutrients,” or plant nutrients, that help us fight disease and stay stronger for longer. Learn what the phytonutrients do [...]

Fats in the diet are highly controversial. Saturated fat was previously blamed for raising cholesterol and causing heart disease, but this has now been disproven (1, 2). For some reason, dietary guidelines still recommend that we consume vegetable oils instead of saturated fats likebutter. This includes oils like soybean oil, cottonseed oil, canola oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil and grapeseed [...]

This is an answer to the many people who ask about cooking and frying in olive oil. Rehan Zaidi Olive oil has always been a nutrition saint. Its health benefits have been touted for ages – high in antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancer…the list goes on. (1, 2) Heck, even the USDA agrees the stuff is great [...]

By Sayer Ji Contributing Writer for Wake Up World What Is Oil Pulling? Oil pulling is an ancient Indian folk remedy first mentioned in the early Ayurvedic text, the Charaka Samhita, which was believed to have been written approximately 1500 years ago. One oil pulls by simply swishing a tablespoon of oil (sesame, coconut and sunflower are commonly recommended) [...]

  By Amy Joyce   Earlier this year, I wrote about teaching empathy, and whether you are a parent who does so. The idea behind it is from Richard Weissbourd, a Harvard psychologist with the graduate school of education, who runs the Making Caring Common project, aimed to help teach kids to be kind. I [...]