One way to combat the boredom many people complain accompanies eating healthy is to “eat outside your box,” by experimenting with new foods and cuisines and by challenging your long held notions about what to eat and when. Iceberg is not the only kind of lettuce, apples and oranges aren’t the only fruits and there [...]

Coffee has joined the ranks of red wine and chocolate as a guilty pleasure that may actually be good for you.  As much as it is a great way to get that “fix” in the morning, recent studies have shown that coffee has been found to be rich in antioxidants and contains hundreds of pain-relieving [...]

The Immune System is probably the most important system in your body. It was designed by nature, millions of years ago, to aid the body in recovering from  injuries and illness. In other words “a natural built in healing system”. Your blood is composed mainly of red and white cells, the red ones carry the [...]

With the current development of a vaccine for the H5N1 strain of the Bird Flu Virus still 2 to 3 years away. We don’t have much of a choice but to really be very cautious that the H5N1 strain does not mutate with a human flu virus. If the outbreak we fear does happen without [...]

Get back to the basics – eat fresh at home and neutralize free radical oxidation, which is rusting away your body, by eating a variety of foods high in antioxidants every day. Why? Antioxidants, as the name implies, help prevent oxidation, may help increase immune function and possibly decrease risk of infection and cancer. A [...]