Food & Nutrition

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Dirty Keto is Ruining your Health

Dirty keto is a term used to describe a lazy, unhealthy approach to a ketogenic diet. Understand the harm in these dirty, yet low-carb, foods.

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Counting Calories and Still Gaining Weight? Her...

At seemingly every restaurant now, each menu item is accompanied with its caloric value. This idea caught on about twenty years ago, and now it is everywhere. But recently there...

5 Reasons Not to Overeat and how to prevent it

5 Reasons Not to Overeat and How to Prevent It

The holiday season is a wonderful time filled with family, fun, and, of course, food! Food seems to be in abundance everywhere you turn. All the snacks, candy, and hearty...

How to Protect Yourself from the Flu

How to Protect Yourself from the Flu

This article was previously published on November 30, 2017 and updated August 20th, 2019.  Is the flu shot effective? According to estimates by the Center for Disease Control, the flu...

The Secret to Motivation

The Secret to Motivation

When external and internal rewards aren’t enough to keep you going, this motivating factor will! Maintaining a healthy lifestyle isn’t the easiest task, especially when those around you don’t live...

7 Best Foods for Healthy Gut Flora

7 Best Foods for Healthy Gut Flora

We may be human, but we’re really only one-tenth human. That’s right, we’re 90% microbial and only 10% human. And because our diet impacts our microbes, we really are what...