What is Nutrition? Nutrition can be defined as the process of taking in food and using it for growth, metabolism, and repair. The nutritional stages are ingestion, digestion, absorption, transport, …
Blood Sugar
What is Blood Sugar Blood sugar or glucose, is the main sugar that is found in the blood according to livescience.com. The body gets glucose from the foods that we eat, it then turns the glucose …
Healthy Digestion
What Does it Mean to Have a Healthy Digestive System? Let's start by defining digestion. Digestion refers to the way the body processes food from intake to elimination. A person with a healthy …
Metabolic Health
What is Metabolic Health? According to this NHANES study, being metabolically fit requires one to: Have an ideal waist measurementAre not prediabetic in their blood sugarA normal, not …
Vitamin D & The Power of Sunlight
You’re on the road to recovery. You’re eating better, feeling better, sleeping better, and your doctor even tells you your cholesterol is going down and with it, your risk of heart disease. You …
Are Legumes & Dairy OK? Cutting Through The Confusion Left by Kresser and Dr Oz
Last week the Dr Oz show featured one of our favorite paleo-pushing health bloggers, Chris Kresser, who ended up pushing some quite un-paleo advice, recommending that we include some servings of both …