fats, food labels, Genetically Modified Foods, gluten, gluten-free, grains, health, healthy food, nutrition, organic, organic food, pesticide, shopping, summer, Toxins

Foods You Love with Better and Best Healthy Alternatives

It’s summer time and that often means lots of go-to summer food! During this time of year, we all seem to socialize even more eating our favorite comfort foods. However, most of us are becoming more and more aware of the questionable ingredients in our fave foods. So, do we have to say goodbye or […]

condiments, Food, nutrition

Beware of Condiments that Double the Calories of your Meal

There’s nothing better than topping off our food to add a little zip or taste.  However, most of us don’t always realize that so many of these condiments contain huge amounts of sugar or even high fructose syrup, loads of salt or unhealthy oilssuch as soybean or canola.  Also, we tend to use much more than the stated serving size so the nutrition facts tend to be grossly […]

outdoors, skin, summer, sunscreen, Toxins

Only Use These Safe Sunscreens

As we are thick in the heat of summer, we’ve been slathering on the sunscreen to “protect ourselves” from the harmful rays of the sun. However, are some sunscreens actually more harmful than good? We are so lucky to have the Environmental Working Group,  an amazing watchdog group that helps alert consumers to toxic chemicals in […]

constipation, dietary fats, digestion, Digestive Health, disease, fat, gallbladder

Shoulder Blade Pain? It Could be Your Gallbladder

Believe it or not, shoulder blade pain (mostly on the right side) is a typical symptom of gallbladder inflammation.  Your gallbladder is located under the right rib cage.  When there is inflammation from gallstones or getting clogged up, this can place pressure on the right phrenic nerve creating nerve pain that can travel up to […]