Yummy Healthy Snacks from Wailana yoga The importance of fiber It’s difficult to emphasize how important fiber is. Grains, fruits, and veggies are all great sources of fiber. In fact, the need for fiber is just one more reason to eat your fruits and vegetables every day. Good sources of fiber There are so many [...]

  Each day our lives get busier. We are always going from one place to the next for work or with our children. We have the temptation to stop at the closest fast food place rather than waiting to get home and make dinner. It is usually fast, cheap, there are many options to choose, [...]

You probably at some point heard that you need to keep away from fat. Good fat and bad fat are different but nobody knew. So, because of that the whole industry began making fat free food but could not find out why people were still gaining weight. The truth is not all not all fat [...]

A lot of new evidence suggests that consuming more plant polyphenols is a powerful way to protect aging arteries.  These polyphenol compounds help improve endothelial function, a critical factor in preventing atherosclerosis; inhibit abnormal platelet aggregation which causes most sudden heart attacks and strokes; fight inflammation; and support healthy blood lipids.  Polyphenols that are of [...]

As we get older, we naturally become much more focused on our health. Perhaps we feel our clock is ticking and see the toll that premature aging takes on those around us. Maybe it’s just that we’re not consumed with worrying about who’s talking about us, what our test scores will be, how we’re going [...]

We know that vitamin D keeps us healthy, but can vitamin D prevent cancer?  The answer appears to be yes. Scientists have been studying vitamin D more and more and the more they look the more important it appears. One surprising finding is that most Americans are deficient in vitamin D. Some studies have found [...]