Cruciferous SuperVeggies!
While it’s important to eat a wide variety of vegetables, make sure you include cruciferous veggies as often as possible in your diet. These are plants belonging to the …
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Plants for Fiber and Disease Prevention
The connection between eating a plant-based diet and better health has been well documented, as well as the connection between fiber consumption and health. Connect the dots by remembering …
Superfood! Garlic
To improve your chances of avoiding or surviving Covid-19, it’s important to strengthen your immune system as well as reducing or eliminating any pre-existing conditions you may have. One …
Chocolate is Good for Your Heart, and More!
A combined analysis of studies from the past 50 years, which included six studies and a total of 336,289 participants, has examined the association between consuming chocolate and coronary …
The Many Benefits of the Humble Apple
When it comes to choosing a food that gives you more bang for your buck, you can’t go wrong with apples. They are inexpensive, easy to eat, easy to …
Superfood! Spinach
Those of us who are old enough to remember watching Popeye cartoons know that he could eat a can of spinach and instantly become super strong and able to …
Color Your Plate
Compare the colors in a fast food meal of hamburger and fries with one of roasted spaghetti squash and marinara sauce. The blandness of the colors in the fast …
Superfood! Flaxseeds
The Latin name for flaxseed is Linum usitatissimum, which means “very useful”. The plant is grown to provide material for fabric (what we usually call linen), string and linseed oil …
Avocado is your BFF (Best Fat Fruit)
The avocado is an unusual fruit which is high in fat and low in sugar. The fat it contains is heart healthy monounsaturated fat which, according to the American …
Coconut Oil – A Natural Antiviral
It bears repeating that there are currently no foods or supplements that will either cure or prevent infection from Covid-19 or other viruses. There are, however, various foods that …
Sweet Potatoes: Guilt-free and Good for You
You might be under the mistaken impression that you shouldn’t eat sweet potatoes because not only are they potatoes, but they’re sweet to boost! Fact check: a sweet potato …
This for That – Healthy Food Swaps
The key to healthy eating is to take in foods that are nutrient-dense instead of those that are calorie-dense but low on nutritional value. Another way of looking at …