Food, Drink & Nutrition
Choosing the right packable lunch for work can be tricky. You want something that will travel easily, store well, and still be tasty by the time lunch rolls around. Here are 16 healthy and delicious lunch ideas that are delicious on their own, with no heating (or reheating) required.
A key component of proper hydration to beat fatigue and heal your body is getting the water into the cell, and one of the most effective ways of doing that is to eat your water in the form of plant foods. Chia seeds, aloe vera and cactus gels are also excellent hydrators
Conscious living brings alignment in health & well-being and what it truly means to be free. Freedom from bonds, limitation and restriction. Freedom of movement, thought and expression – freeing our spirit from attachments. Freedom to create and serve without ego. Freedom to be present and to follow our bliss. Freedom to live in beauty and grace.
It’s the answer to that age-old question, ‘what are the best exercises for weight loss?’.
Here are chef Amanda Cohen’s top tips for grilling veggies: from pearl onions and oyster mushrooms to Japanese eggplant and salad greens (even arugula).
A study of dozens of popular oat-based breakfast foods delivered sobering news this week when almost all of the products examined by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) were found to contain the chemical glyphosate. Glyphosate is classified as a probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization and was listed last year as a chemical known to cause cancer by California.
The implication is that the human body can transmute ambient energy into nutrients, and through the practice of cultivating this ability one can live comfortably for as long as one wishes without food, and possibly without drinking water. This is described as a siddhi in the Yoga Sutras as Pada 111.30: liberation from hunger and thirst. This flies in the face of a substantial body of medical knowledge, which has established that the human body can last about five days without water, and a few weeks at most without food. Beyond that, you’re dead.
Agrochemical giant, Monsanto, to pay $39.2 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages for failing to warn consumers that exposure to Roundup weed killer causes cancer.
In America, beef accounts for 37% of all human-induced methane released into the air. Methane is 23 times as warming to the climate as carbon dioxide. In a recent article, The Atlantic writer James Hamblin shows how one dietary change—replacing beef with beans—could get the U.S. 74% of the way to meeting 2020 greenhouse-gas emission goals. As Hamblin notes, it’s worth being reminded that individual choices matter.
GMOs, pesticides, antibiotic resistance – these are just a few of the dangers that corporate farming has brought to our plate. Read this and learn where to get food you can safely serve to your family.
Mineral water claims to promote all sorts of health benefits, including lower blood pressure, better acid/alkaline balance in the body, and even weight loss.
Filled with a beneficial compliment of essential fats, protein, a vast array of different nutrients and phytonutrients, they play an important role in supporting health. They are simply bursting with goodness.
Oranges have profound medicinal properties that are often overlooked
Many people don’t realize that the sluggish and even bloated feeling we get during the day can be the result of excess toxins in the body. Detox drinks help to naturally reduce inflammation, boost energy, support digestion, cleanse the liver and promote healthy skin.
Eighty-three percent of supermarket meats are contaminated with fecal bacteria, and a high percentage of them were antibiotic-resistant. Chicken is particularly prone to contamination with not just drug-resistant bacteria but also other dangerous pathogens linked to lethal food poisoning.
