A lot is being said on healthy and unhealthy fats, how eating health-positive fat impacts body functions for the better and how eating health-negative fats is in the body’s detriment, meaning there are many discussions on fat’s effect on health. Fat in diets and do we need fatty foods? The relation between food and health […]

The most important thing to remember once making the decision to start eating healthier is that you are going to experience some side effects as a result of your body adjusting to the diet. Contrary to what many Canadians believe and expect, when starting to eat healthy it’s not a feeling of feeling good that […]

Pineapple has one of the most interesting and richer histories of existence. For centuries, it has been a symbol of friendship, and throughout history, it has been depicted as a symbol of wealth, hospitality, and royalty. Pineapples were given to kings as a royal gift, and only the most distinguished guests were gifted this exotic […]

It is estimated that nearly 1 in 133 Canadians suffers from celiac disease, the autoimmune affection that cannot be treated otherwise except by following a gluten-free diet, meaning no other cure or treatment to control or heal the symptoms has yet been discovered. But it’s not just people diagnosed with celiac disease who decide to […]

One of the healthiest fats to consume, olive oil, is produced heavily in countries like Spain, Italy, and Greece, but altogether, there are more than 20 top producing countries in the world. Most of the world’s production comes, however, from the Mediterranean region where olive trees are grown for centuries. Where the best olive oil […]

Can you go a day without eating any fruits at all? Pretty sure you can. Lots of people do. But while you can skimp on fruits, you can hardly do so when it comes to vegetables, and that’s because no matter what you are cooking or where you are eating, there’s at least one vegetable […]

To some people frugality is a choice, to others, it becomes a necessity. Life sometimes makes you live on less, and it doesn’t ask if you like it or not. But then again it’s often the challenging times in our lives – whether financially or otherwise – that teach us a lot about ourselves and […]

If you’ve been feeling tired and even a bit sad this past couple of months and you haven’t been able to explain yourself, then now that it’s all quite normal. See, during winter our bodies experience a slowdown, and just like animals hibernate during winter, our bodies too function differently this time of year. Changes […]

Not an easy job to do – go from cheesy bagels or chocolate donuts in the morning to oatmeal or basic scramble. After all, what’s more tempting? Grabbing something on the go or take 20 minutes off a busy morning to make porridge? That’s rhetorical. Here’s the thing though, and it’s been scientifically proven: the […]

That most fruits are contaminated, everybody knows it nowadays. But do you know just how contaminated they are and which among them are the most chemically-polluted? It is unfortunate that the fruits with the most pesticides are fruits that people consume daily, staple fruits so to say. If rambutan, mangosteen or cherimoya ranked as the […]