How Your Current Diet Will Affect Your Future Self

by Nicole Akers | Food

It goes without saying that many people follow a healthy diet in hopes of achieving short-term goals like losing weight or improving their mood. While these are indeed wonderful benefits to reap from making good nutrition choices, your diet actually plays a vital role...

What Makes a Person so Happy His Heart Sings?

by Nicole Akers | Surprises

What makes a person happy? 350 million people live with depression according to the World Health Organization. Sixteen million adults in the United States have an episode with depression each year. That’s 6.9% of the population living in an unhappy state of being....

How to Keep your Mind Sharp and Keep Alzheimer’s from Killing You

by Nicole Akers | Body

Forty-four million people worldwide have Alzheimer’s, 5.5 million of them live in the United States. Of these numbers, most are over age 65, according to the Alzheimer’s News Today. An Alzheimer’s diagnosis brings emotion and stress for the patient and the caregiver....

What is Sweet, Simple and Complex?

by Renee Tarantowski Baude | Food

It’s not you. Keep reading to find out what it is in this guest post by Renee Tarantowski Baude. Love? Not exactly but we do love it and crave it . . . the answer is sugar. A few years ago I went to a Forks over Knives Conference in Chicago. It was 3 days of...

How I Finally Managed to Go Gluten and Dairy Free

by Stephanie Berryman | Body, Food

Introducing a guest post by Stephanie Berryman with her personal story. How I finally managed to go Gluten and Dairy Free, and Why   I love food. I’m the kind of woman who moans over butter melting on to hot fresh bread. I’ll drive across the city at eleven at...