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 […]

Every year, Canada gets about 300,000 international students, possibly more, and they come from all over the world. Many are from China, India, Saudi Arabia, France, Japan, Mexico and the United States, so there is a lot of cultural diversity and a mingling of ethnic groups. This multicultural background is experienced in several ways. International […]

We see a lot of advertisement for local products on a positive note, and the idea that local products are better seems to agree with many people. Many people are, however, unaware that something local isn’t always or necessarily better. The Local Foods Dilemma – A Food System Slightly Misunderstood What is to you local […]

For how long have you been trying to lose weight and the diets failed to help you? People sometimes get stuck at some point along their weight-loss plan not knowing why that happens. Often, it’s because they keep falling for weight-loss gimmicks such as fad diets. Fad diets involve eliminating one, and in some cases […]