How Essential Fatty Acids Affect Cholesterol

Everyone needs essential fatty acids to be physically and mentally fit. The essential Omega 3 fatty acids assist with reducing the levels of bad cholesterol while increasing the levels of good cholesterol in your body.

Gluten and Toxins in Pet Foods - Are they Poisoning Your Pets?

Celiac disease, also known as gluten intolerance, is a genetic disorder that affects 1 in 1331 Americans. Symptoms of celiac disease can range from diarrhea, weight loss, and malnutrition, to latent symptoms such as isolated nutrient deficiencies but no gastrointestinal symptoms. The disease mostly affects people of European (especially Northern European) descent, but recent studies show that it also affects Hispanic, Black and Asian populations.

Detox - 10 Top Tips for Avoiding Gender Benders for Better Hormonal Health

There have been alarming new reports that there has been an unexpected drop in male births. Whilst this may may not seem particularly significant to your interest in detoxification scientists are linking the phenomenon to exposure to and body accumulation of hormone mimicking pollutants. Hormone mimicking toxins or gender benders, as they are often known, appear not to be easily eliminated naturally through the body's detox pathways. They build up and interfere with the way your glandular system functions.

Staying Cool

With the heat wave that’s been affecting the whole country, my clients have been wondering how to stay cool. I don’t know about you, but I find extreme heat to be physically and mentally exhausting. I’ve put together some tips for keeping both your body and mind cool during the month of August.

Healthy Eating Your Way to Great Nutrition

The right diet can also keep us free from disease. The foods we choose to put in out bodies is often the most important choice we make everyday and often times many of us never even realize.

Why We Should Opt For Organic Food

There are many reasons why people should change to incorporate the organic diet. One of the main reasons for such a change would be to improve health and to adopt a lifestyle change. Another reason to switch to an organic diet would be to help preserve our environment.

A Banana A Day Keeps Doctor Away

This article is about how to keep oneself fit by flagging a banana a day!

Raw Food & Raw Food Restaurants in San Francisco - the Very Best Places to Eat Healthy

Looking for raw food in San Francisco? San Francisco has lots of raw food restaurants and plenty of locations to buy fresh, raw food. There are also numerous sources of organic produce in San Francisco, and plenty of vegan restaurants.

Top Tips For Staying Healthy In A Toxic World - How To Detox Chemicals From The Body

How can you and your family detox chemicals and stay healthy in a toxic world? There are over 50,000 synthetic chemicals in common use around the world. Food chemicals, herbicides, pesticides, solvents, drugs, gases and heavy metals are part of our global environment. Our bodies are not separate; they are part of the open ecosystem of our beautiful plant. What can you do?

What is Purified Water?

Of all the water in the world, only about 3% is drinkable by human beings. Of this small percentage, the majority is either wholly or partially polluted by natural or man made contaminants. The body requires H2O to survive but not the contaminants found in most drinking water.

Planning Healthy Meals for Kids

After twelve years the USDA restructured the information provided in its Food Pyramid for Healthy Eating. They realized that they needed to make the information easier to use for everyone, especially kids. They literally turned it upside down. Instead of boxes that divided the food groups, they added brightly colored stripes that represented each of the foods. Ultimately it became much easier for parents to plan healthy meals for their kids.

White Tea - The Next Hot Thing

More and more health-conscious people are drinking green tea because of its high antioxidant content. But you can do them one better - white tea contains a significantly stronger concentration of antioxidants than green tea. It tastes better, too. In fact, white tea is the Next Hot Thing.