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Plant Power: Legumes

Plant Power: Legumes

A diet that emphasizes nutrient-dense foods does so much more than provide energy, it nourishes your body and supports good overall health. There are so many countless health benefits to legumes, besides being versatile and delicious! Legumes are low in fat, contain no cholesterol and are high in folate, potassium, iron and magnesium. They are also high in fiber and protein. Some well known examples of legumes are black beans, garbanzo beans, kidney beans, lentils and green p

Making a Connection: Nutrition and Chiropractic’s

Making a Connection: Nutrition and Chiropractic’s

The relationship between chiropractic’s and proper nutrition is strong and many times overlooked. In unity, you are enabling your body to function like a fortress that it is, a self-healing machine when given the proper environment, essentially being the ultimate health insurance plan! The nervous system is the body’s inner computer system creating communication throughout the body. The nerves that transport these signals is located within your spinal column. If there is a ma

Vegan Buffalo Tacos

Vegan Buffalo Tacos

Do you love tacos?? I sure do! I needed a way to enjoy a healthy taco fix and these were just the ticket. Totally Meat and dairy Free Feeds 2 people 1 Large Cauliflower head- chop into cubes or florets for larger pieces 1 Tbls Organic Olive Oil 1/2c Buffalo Sauce (I prefer Annie's) 1/2 medium chopped white onion 2 Ripe Avocado's 1 tsp Salt 1 tsp Black pepper 4 Multigrain or Sprouted Wheat 8in. Tortillas 1 Romaine Lettuce head 1 15oz. Can Organic Black beans 4 Tbls Annie's Veg

Acai Blast Smoothie

Acai Blast Smoothie

This purple super powered drink is packed with nutrients and sure to make your taste buds sing with no added or artificial sugar. This is an excellent "wake me up" breakfast smoothie or a wholesome snack to tie you over in-between meals. I used a NutriBullet 900 Series for this blend. 1 1(00g) packet frozen unsweetened Sambazon Acai 1 Banana 12oz Unsweetened Organic Cashew milk 1 tsp Vanilla 2 tsp Cinnamon 1/2 c Blueberries (fresh or frozen) 1/2 c Raspberries (fresh or frozen

Retrain your Taste Buds

Retrain your Taste Buds

One of the hardest parts of eating a healthy diet is the taste of truly healthy food. Our brains have been trained to give into salt and sugar and its time to take charge and retrain your taste buds! If your accustomed to consuming sodium, sugar and refined oils on a regular basis like the majority of American's, than transforming your diet in a healthy direction is going to take some real hard work and desire to make change. There is so much processed foods and products ou

Designer Diet Fads

Designer Diet Fads

Paleo, Ketogenic, Atkins, The Zone: if your living in the 21st century than you have heard of at least one of these fad diets. They each have their own claims, but mainly evolve around weight loss. These types of diets include eliminating certain foods and restricting what you consume down to a numbers game. They all are high protein and low carbohydrate diets, just with different titles and though this may make you loose body fat and look more like a model on the cover of a

The Protein Hype

The Protein Hype

Protein was discovered in 1839 and is typically considered to be the most important nutrient of the three main Macronutrients: Protein, Fat and Carbohydrates. The root Greek word of Protein, Proteios means, “of main importance, “ which gave this macronutrient its rockstar status right from the start, based solely off its name! The Protein hype grew and scientific research continued to pour out data that animal based proteins were better and more utilized in the human body. Th

Supplement Overload

Supplement Overload

Are you depending on your shoe box of supplements to get you through each day? Do you have a time sheet to tell you how much and how many of over five supplements to consume but forget even why or what you are taking? Supplement junkies, THIS is for you! So many strive to reach ultimate health by consuming supplements, thinking its going to fix all of their problems or make them loose weight... yadada, but the truth: taking so many pills isn’t going to get you anywhere. Just

Officially on the road and observing the Food System

Officially on the road and observing the Food System

Its official, Billy and I are now on the road full time in our van, Falkor. We are driving west over the next month to do some exploring and winding down from all of the chaos we had blocking us from the lifestyle we truly wanted, a simple life. Focusing on our own balance and nutrition is very important to both of us and in order for that to be a priority that meant changing the way we were living. New England is a very fast pace way of life, we realized this the more travel

Antibiotic Overload

Antibiotic Overload

Antibiotic use has become so mainstream and typical that they are having a negative impact on human health and are now responsible for super-bugs and even death. Bacteria has actually become smart and continues to evolve as new and stronger antibiotics are presented, basically breaking down natural defenses to the point where relying on the body to heal becomes impossible. The constant pharmaceutical grind is harmful as is treats symptoms and not roots cause. When the correct

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