Many of us stray away from eating vegetables, but it’s important to get in your greens! Vegetables have numerous health benefits, but one vegetable outlines the path: kale. Kale is rich in vitamins A, K, B6 and C, calcium, potassium… read more
Vitamins
Avoca(do) Try This at Home!
BY SARAH CORREA-DIBAR If you favor fruit salads over lettuce-and-tomato salads, avocados are the exact solution to that problem because get this: avocados are fruits and healthy in more ways than one. Avocados are coined to be full of the… read more
The Health Benefits of Probiotics and Prebiotics
Probiotics and prebiotics line the shelves at the drugstore. Today they are advertised on yogurt cups and may be recommended by your doctor when you were last prescribed antibiotics. What exactly are probiotics and prebiotics, do you need them and… read more
Supplements Worth the Price
By Isabella Sorresso Each day, the food you eat gives you a certain number of vitamins, but you still might not be getting a sufficient amount. Ideally, we should be getting most of our daily vitamin and mineral intake from… read more
Edible Insects: The Latest Trend in Nutrition?
About a year ago, I first learned of a company making high protein energy bars from cricket flour. My first instinct? YUCK! At least, that is what I thought until I recently had the opportunity to try some cricket products… read more