Do you ever wonder how your food is made and where it comes from?  Over the last century, our diet has undergone so many dramatic changes, to say the least! We now get about 70 percent of our calories from processed foods. Gone are the days where our food contained natural occurring minerals, vitamins and antioxidants.  Today our food is...

  I am an avid juicer and love the benefits I get from regular juicing.  I think that including a variety of liquid foods aka “raw juice” in your daily diet will provide the body with essential nutrients to naturally cleanse and rejuvenate the organs.  Raw juice is wonderful because it supports cleansing of our elimination organs: our liver, kidney,...

How good does a cup of warm soup sound during chilly days? Right! I simply can’t resist.  From a nutritional point of view, as the weather gets colder its important to make a transition from eating cooling foods to eating warming foods because food has thermal properties.  During the colder fall and winter months, it’s a good idea to incorporate more...

Photo: Google Images It’s about time! The Food and Drug Administration finally acknowledges the dangers of trans fats.  On Thursday the FDA ruled for the first time that “trans fats aren’t generally considered safe in foods”.   This sudden shift can finally change food manufacturing policy to ban trans fats once and for all!  With recent efforts, New York City, Seattleand...

Since the weather has been like 100 degrees here in good ole California this past week, today I decided to make something fun and refreshing for lunch. I don’t know about you, but when its scorching hot outside I don’t have much of an appetite to eat a huge meal let alone prepare one. So I decided to get a...