Category Archives: Functional Foods

Do you hate the look of cellulite on your legs, stomach or behind? Over 80 percent of women in the western world have cellulite in some part of their body, and are desperate to find a way to get rid of it. Despite hundreds of products on the market that claim to help you rid ...click here to read more

Chocolate is arguably the world’s favorite ‘junk food’- with 9 out 10 people reporting that they love it and 50 % of the population confessing that they can’t go a day without it. Although some may argue that chocolate is not a junk food at all (because it is made with cocoa which is high ...click here to read more

It has been the subject of a lot of debate in health and scientific circles over the last 20 years…is aspartame too dangerous for consumer consumption? What about the dangers of sugar; are we forgetting about that in all the fuss over artificial sweeteners? We eat sugar daily to sweeten our drinks and our food. ...click here to read more

Mom always says “eat your vegetables”…we have plenty to choose from, both domestic and imported. Still, many North Americans aren’t eating a lot of veggies. For many people, the juice bar craze of recent years has been a substitute. Make Sure to Eat These Healthy Foods To call vegetables a healthy food is a bit ...click here to read more

This is something that could really impact, not only your morning routine, but your life as well! If scientists and weather experts are correct, it could mean bad news for coffee drinkers, as within a few decades, caffeine lovers may have to part with their drink of choice: coffee. Coffee and the Coffee Bean – ...click here to read more

With Halloween slowly crawling up, and there appears to be bright and colorful pumpkins everywhere, you may be wondering if there are other uses for the pumpkin, after all, it is seasonal, and it seems to make for a bit of a waste that you only use it as a decorative jack-o-lantern for carving up, ...click here to read more

Among the fruits and vegetables available in local groceries, cherries are considered as a common component in making pies and jams.  Eating fresh cherries as part of our daily diets may facilitate in achieving good health, especially when one looks into the nutritional value of this fruit.  Cherries are rich in dietary fiber and may ...click here to read more

Diets that are rich in healthy food including lots of fresh fruits and vegetables have been touted to provide good health benefits. However, recently there has been an outbreak of salmonella that has been traced back to mangoes that were grown in Mexico that are being consumed in the diets of people living in North ...click here to read more

Diets that are rich in fruits and vegetables are known to have good health benefits and new research is showing that one fruit, in particular, may provide an added good health benefit as well. Strawberries may help to protect against the damaging effects of ultraviolet rays, according to a new study published in the Journal ...click here to read more

For thousands of years, beer has been considered the most common beverage around the world. Its extensive use in society may have been fueled by notion of its positive effects on health, although no scientific evidence has been collected during earlier times. Unfortunately, beer has also been often described as a beverage that imparts negative ...click here to read more

It appears to be taking the weight loss community by storm,  but with so many different diets and ways to lose weight, many people might consider it just another fad diet. But with a few celebrity endorsements to back the newest weight loss idea, and the general simplicity of it, perhaps it isn’t the worst ...click here to read more

There are dozens of home remedies that have failed to live up to their hype; however, one treatment that has stood the test of time is chicken soup. How many times have you heard that you should try chicken soup for a cold? It turns out that doctors have tested the theory and most agree ...click here to read more

Protein is generally recognized as a major component of our daily diets, allowing a resource for essential amino acids that comprise various hormones, enzymes and structural components of the body that promote good health. Without any protein in our daily diets, it may be possible to develop poor muscles and bones, as well as problems ...click here to read more

If you think back to the last time that you watched a movie, chances are that you reached for a handful or two of butter-flavored popcorn and thoroughly enjoyed it.  However, next time you may want to reach for a healthy food snack instead once you learn that the compound that gives popcorn that buttery ...click here to read more