Health + Wellness

10 Reasons Why You Feel So Good in Nature

10 Reasons Why You Feel So Good in Nature

By Kris Abrams Earth, rivers, mountains and trees! Silent canyons, babbling creeks and growing green gardens! If you spend time in nature, you’ve probably noticed that you feel happier out there than in here. But why? One of the better known theories, the “biophilia hypothesis,” suggests that we love nature because we evolved in it. […]

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    Organic vs. Conventional: Find Out Which Eggs Are Healthiest to Eat

    Organic vs. Conventional: Find Out Which Eggs Are Healthiest to Eat

    By Kris Gunnars I love eggs and eat 3-4 of them for breakfast every single day. I don’t lose sleep over it because research shows that they are good for my health. But depending on what the hens themselves ate, the nutritional value of the eggs can differ greatly. The Different Types of Eggs Are […]

    6 Superfoods to Keep You Healthy All Winter Long

    6 Superfoods to Keep You Healthy All Winter Long

    There’s no getting around it. It’s that dreary time of year when the low-level blahs—flu and colds and sore throats—are making the rounds. So it’s time to think about what you can eat to build up your immune system. Supplements, powders and tablets are fine, but the best way to create an armor of immunity […]

    Toxic Chemicals in Salons Linked to Adverse Health Effects, Including Cancer

    Toxic Chemicals in Salons Linked to Adverse Health Effects, Including Cancer

    Issues that primarily impact women often end up on the back burner. Maybe that’s why the new study from Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) on the health impacts of exposure to salon chemicals on the (mostly) women who work in personal care salons is the first of its kind. The study, Beauty and Its Beast: Unlocking […]

    What Is the Alkaline Diet?

    What Is the Alkaline Diet?

    By Joe Leech The alkaline diet seems a bit too good to be true. Proponents of this diet suggest that replacing acid-forming foods with alkaline foods can improve health. Unlike many other strange diets, the alkaline diet is actually quite healthy. It encourages a high consumption of fruits, vegetables and healthy plant foods, while restricting […]

    Why Antioxidants in Superfoods Are Essential to Your Diet

    Why Antioxidants in Superfoods Are Essential to Your Diet

    You hear about antioxidants all the time when you’re reading about great, healthy superfoods. They all have them. But what is an antioxidant and what does it do? Here’s a good basic explanation, a sort of “Science of Antioxidants 101.” To boil it down to even simpler terms, atoms, which hook up to form molecules, […]

    Garlic: The World’s Immune System-Boosting Superfood

    Garlic: The World’s Immune System-Boosting Superfood

    Throughout history garlic has been a known immune system-boosting, disease fighting superfood. While it is most often served cooked, eating raw garlic can supercharge your immune system. Currently, the consumption of garlic is at an all-time high. The majority of garlic sold worldwide is grown in China where it is mass-produced. In the U.S., California is […]

    Is Palm Oil Explosion Driving Ebola Outbreak?

    Is Palm Oil Explosion Driving Ebola Outbreak?

    The growing Ebola virus outbreak not only highlights the tragedy enveloping the areas most affected but also offers a commentary on they way in which the political ecology in West Africa has allowed this disease to become established. The global palm oil industry shows the trend of deep-cutting into forests for agricultural development has breached […]

    8 Superfoods You Should Eat This Fall

    8 Superfoods You Should Eat This Fall

    As the “buy local” food movement has grown, so too has the awareness of the benefits of eating seasonally. The tastelessness of those January tomatoes after you’ve eaten one straight off the vine in August may have something to do with that too! But as those wonderful summer tomatoes vanish into memory, what is being harvested […]