Category: Food as Medicine

AHA News: How to Boost Your Mood Through Food

You’ve had a bad breakup, a rotten day at work, or you’re just too exhausted to cook. You’re craving comfort, something to soothe your mood. So, you reach for… a salad? Probably not. But if it’s happiness you want, those leafy greens are a far better choice than a tub of ice cream or a…


Herbal Tea for Optimum Body Detox

Herbal tea is the perfect choice for cleansing your body from unwanted toxins that cause disease. Caffeine-free and natural, they are nature’s best remedy against fighting unpleasant symptoms associated with common modern ailments. Herbal tea may also help boost weight loss and promote a healthier lifestyle.  If you are on any medication, it would be…


Quick Tips to Spring-Clean Your Diet

Spring is a breath of fresh air after the colder, darker days of winter. The snow melts, the days get warmer and brighter, and the flora and fauna of our planet bring forth new growth and new life. It’s the perfect time to follow nature’s example and breathe new life into your diet, to regenerate…


What to Eat on a Pegan Diet

First there was the Paleolithic diet, emulating the eating habits of our nomadic ancestors. Now there’s a more vegetarian version: the Pegan diet. Paleo-Vegan may seem like a strange mash-up since such a big part of the Paleo diet is fat and meat. But consider Paleo’s emphasis on quality. Adherents of this diet specifically seek…


What Is It About Cows?

What is it about cows? It seems we were created to live in harmony with these gentle mothers… to be co-dependent. How else can we explain the historically proven phenomena that persons who live closest to the cows are often the healthiest and strongest of their society? Over 300 years ago, country folk wisdom observed…


How Blood Glucose Damages Bone Health

In addition to following a diet that is made up of whole plant foods, it’s important to keep the glycemic load of your diet in mind. Using more beans, nuts, and seeds as major calorie sources, instead of grains and potatoes, reduces the overall glycemic load of the diet. As more and more research is conducted, we are…


The Essentials of Vitamin C

Vitamin C gets a lot of love from nutritionists. PubMed lists some 70,000-plus studies into this essential vitamin, looking at everything from its effect on sepsis to how it affects nanoparticle additives in food. When it comes to its potential as a disease fighter, those who study these things are pretty enthusiastic about it. “Vitamin…


What to Eat to Help with Seasonal Allergies (Hay Fever)

What did a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study of a food that costs pennies a day for ragweed allergy sufferers find? A “great deal is asked of our immune system. It is firstly required to respond rapidly and violently to invaders, but at the same time limits both the duration of its response and the collateral damage to the host.”…


Best Food for Hay Fever (Seasonal Allergies)

  “[A] great deal is asked of [our] immune system. On one hand, it has “to respond rapidly and violently to invaders, but at the same time limits both the… response and the collateral damage to the host.” Anaphylactic shock, like when someone with a peanut allergy drops dead after eating a peanut, is an example…


Basil: Herb of Scorpions, Doctors, and Kings

For most Americans, the scent of basil usually means Italian food. But this herb is good for much more than just pasta. Some say the basil name comes from “basilisk”—the Greek word for dragon or lizard. Others say it comes from “basileus,” the Greek word for king. Tales from basil folklore support both interpretations. Basil…