This Dark Red Vegetable Boosts Your Libido and Makes Your Brain Look Younger
Their deep, saturated red will make you sweat. Their thick stems are seductively plump. Their green, leafy tops are vibrant and tasty. What vegetable could we possibly be talking about?The beetBeets certainly don’t have a rep as the coolest of all vegetables, but when you take their health benefi...
Put Down the Wine: Breast Cancer Risk and Alcohol
A recent report published by the World Cancer Research Fund found that even a small drink every day increases your breast cancer risk.This comes as some discouraging news for women who enjoy a beer, a glass of wine, or the occasional shot of hard liquor. Although alcohol has long been associated ...
What Exactly Is Wrong With Commercial Beef?
Many of us are swayed by advertising. Commercials that show happy cows in a pasture, a package of beef that says “free-range” or “grass-fed”or “organically-raised:” it seems easy to make the right choices at the supermarket. We as consumers are convinced we know how to tell good food from bad foo...
4 Signs of a Food Intolerance
While some people have the notion that food intolerances don’t really exist, I’d like to beg to differ. People can have reactions to foods that their bodies have trouble tolerating, as well as mild to severe allergic reactions to foods, some of which can be life threatening.Before I found out I h...
Is It Really More Expensive to Eat Healthier? Your Guide to Cheap Healthy Eating
It seems like every time my fiancé and I are at the grocery store, we happen to walk past aisles that sells loaves of bread for 99 cents or a huge bag of chips for a couple dollars. We gawk at these prices—how could anything so cheap ever be healthy? Isn’t good food more expensive? A study publis...