The Problem A few months ago, I was struggling with eating a balanced vegan diet. The vegan diet is a good diet if you eat a variety of foods and make sure you eat a balanced diet. As a result of my not eating a balanced diet and eating enough food, I noticed my hair was thinning and falling out each time I cleansed my hair. As a trained cosmetologist, I knew something was … [Read more...] about Daily Vegan Meal Planning – A Must!
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Ten Tips to Help You Keep Off the Weight
We are almost nearing the half-way mark for 2011 and I know some of you set goals to lose weight. Did you lose the weight? Have your reached your goals? Did you call it quits? I hope you achieved all your goals, but I am a realist and I know some of you probably stopped working on your goals. I set some goals myself and now I must re-group. If you did stop somewhere … [Read more...] about Ten Tips to Help You Keep Off the Weight
Forks Over Knives: Diet is Important
The trailer for Forks Over Knives sends a powerful message. If you do not take anything home from this clip, please know that you are ultimately the one in control. Diet is important, more than you will ever know. I do not believe that you need to eat a vegan diet to be healthy. But I do know that if you make little changes (increasing plant-based foods), then you will … [Read more...] about Forks Over Knives: Diet is Important
10 Ways I Keep my Skin Healthy
My skin use to look bad. I can remember using Noxema and other commercial products to rid my face of the awful looking breakouts, but topical solutions, only worked for a short time. As I have gotten older and changed my diet, my skin looks the best it has ever looked in my life. I wish my skin looked like this 15-20 years ago. Wow, that’s a lot of years. But we live and we … [Read more...] about 10 Ways I Keep my Skin Healthy
Five Delicious Foods with Plant Sterols
Plant sterols have been in the news a great deal lately, heralded for their cholesterol-lowering properties. Plant sterols (also called phytosterols), are phytochemicals that naturally occur in plants and work by partially blocking the absorption of “bad” or LDL cholesterol. There are about 44 sterols known to exist in plants. The recommended amount of plant sterols is … [Read more...] about Five Delicious Foods with Plant Sterols
6 Easy Ways to Eat More Raw Foods
Welcome our guest blogger for today, Maria Rainier. As a kid, the last thing I wanted for a snack was carrot sticks or peanut butter on celery, and my daily diet consisted mostly of white rice and chocolate. I’m the last person you’d think would advocate adding more raw food into your diet. Twenty-something years later, I repeatedly surprise my mother with how many … [Read more...] about 6 Easy Ways to Eat More Raw Foods