by Julie Wood | Mar 3, 2023 | Healthy Living
What are Cruciferous vegetables anyway? The word Cruciferae is Latin for ‘cross bearing’ because the 4 petals resemble a cross. While these veggies grow in all different colors, shapes and sizes, they share several nutritional benefits. Most...
by Julie Wood | Mar 3, 2023 | Healthy Living
Walnuts, a food native to Persia, now produced widely in California, have been a staple of a healthy diet for thousands of years. Known to the Greeks as the ‘nut of Jupiter’, they were considered a food fit for the gods. Today, walnuts remain at the top of...
by Julie Wood | Mar 3, 2023 | Drugs and Supplements, Healthy Living
Folate is essential for many processes in the body including brain development and function, DNA synthesis and more. Its role in many reactions in the body suggests folate is important for helping prevent certain cancers, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease,...
by Julie Wood | Mar 3, 2023 | Healthy Living
We all want to know what’s in our food, how it is produced, and where it comes from. But food companies are often not required to give us this information and we often don’t dig deeper to seek it. The array of labels on some foods can be overwhelming. It is...
by Julie Wood | Mar 3, 2023 | Healthy Living
GMO simply means genetically modified organism or the earlier definition of ‘living organism whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering’. GMO has been around for thousands of years but the GMO we think of...
by Julie Wood | Mar 3, 2023 | Everything Else, Healthy Living
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine…Proverbs 17:22. The power of laugher has long been recognized by both medical and spiritual experts. Dating back to the 1300s, surgeons used laughter to distract patients in pain. From the slight giggle to a belly chuckle,...
