Your guide to summer stone fruit

Your guide to summer stone fruit

Whether you like peaches, plums, nectarines, cherries, or apricots, now is the time to enjoy their delicious and nutritious benefits they offer promoting our health and wellness. 

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Yo-Yo dieting is no good for heart health

Yo-Yo dieting is no good for heart health

We’ve all heard the term, “yo-yo dieting” and some of us may have experienced the up and down weight scale ride where we lose weight only to quickly and expectedly regain it back.

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Eating nuts provides boost to sperm health

Eating nuts provides boost to sperm health

Men, if you want a higher sperm count and quality, start eating more nuts.  This is news from a recent study in Spain that looked at whether adding more nuts to a man’s diet could improve sperm health.

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Delicious ways to eat more beans

Delicious ways to eat more beans

Beans are the only food considered by the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines as part of the vegetable group as well as the protein foods group as they are excellent sources of protein and can be a healthy substitute for meat.

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Turmeric tea’s sensational health benefits 

Turmeric tea’s sensational health benefits 

Native to areas such as India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia, turmeric has been used to treat a variety of conditions over the centuries and is still revered as a time-honored medicinal seasoning to this day.  Over 1 billion people worldwide regularly consume turmeric as part of their diet. 

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Smart strategies to beat stress-induced weight gain

Smart strategies to beat stress-induced weight gain

t’s bad enough that stress is already associated with increasing headaches, body aches, GI disturbances, insomnia, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. 

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Become crazy for carrots

Become crazy for carrots

A 2011 study found that carrot juice extract can inhibit the progression of leukemia cells and that carrots may be an excellent source of bioactive chemicals for the treatment of leukemia.    


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5 tips on being a smart food shopper

5 tips on being a smart food shopper

We don’t want that do we?  It doesn’t do much to promote our health and a steady diet of unhealthy foods may end up promoting just the opposite – heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and other health-related conditions.


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