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Can You Drink Your Way to a Healthier Brain?

The supermarkets are full of it – enhanced bottled water. Are they any good? Nutritionist Dr. Pamela Peeke believes that some of the claims that marketers make about enhanced water may not be true. For example, she…
How To Develop Healthy Eating Habits

Good carbs, bad carbs, protein, nutrients...It can all get pretty heavy duty. Healthy eating facts abound and can get very confusing. Today, let's put away the latest calorie counting charts and discuss a tactic th…
How Do I Get Myself and My SO to Eat Healthier?

Ladies and Gentleman, I am putting my foot down. Last night at about 11pm, I sat on the couch mindlessly staring at the tube, as my boyfriend was fidgeting in the kitchen. After a few minutes, he emerged from the door…
7 Tips To Get Rid Of Your Fat While Staying Healthy

If you're hoping to lose fat, there's a pretty good chance you've tried a lot of methods. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people who are unhappy with their bodies don't succeed in their fat loss goals. That'…
Think Healthy Food Has To Be Expensive? Think Again!

While reading various posts regarding the Organic and health food subject, I see a lot of people commenting that they can't exactly afford organic foods or healthy foods in excess. I find this extremely heart breaking…
How To Recognize a Healthy Human

Washboard abs. Quads of steel. White Chiclet teeth. Itty bitty clothes. A tan so dark and glossy that Crayola weeps with jealousy. These are the symbols that magazines and advertisers use to sell us the picture of healt…
A Visual Guide to 15 Healthy Snacks

Raw Almonds Serving shown: 20 almonds Calories: 139 Raw Mixed Nuts Serving shown: 30g / ~1oz Calories: 178 Dried Fruit Serving shown: 40g / 1.4oz Calories: 97 Note: Dried fruits are more calorie dense (per w…
Big Mac, Meet the Mac Wrap!

I like when the fast food industry comes out with new, healthier versions of their tasty, seriously unhealthy foods. When McDonald's came out with their Snack Wraps line, I was giddy at the idea of getting a chicken w…
5 Healthy Foods That Beautify, too!

I thought there was nothing better than a delicious, healthy meal with friends, accompanied with the daily cocktail that research is now suggesting may reduce the risk of death (article here). Then I read that there…
Why I am Involved in Parkour

I have never, ever been an athletic sort of person. The closest I ever got was when I was ten or so and played street hockey with my best friends once a week. That being said, I have almost ALWAYS been a physically ac…