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Eat Your Greens

Plant-Based Tip: Eat Your Greens! As you start researching what foods to eat and what to avoid while on a plant-based diet, one thing is for certain – vegetables are key! They are filled with nutrients, inexpensive, easy to find anywhere, and fill you up to keep you from excessive snacking. This is especially true…
Plant-based Diet

How to Craft a Nutrionally Balanced Plant-based Diet

As more and more of us transition to a plant-based lifestyles for health, environmental and ethical reasons it is important to eat a balanced diet and ensure we replace nutrients found in meat and dairy. Also, just because it’s plant-based doesn’t mean it’s healthy. Plant-based foods like frozen meals can have high amounts of sugar,…
Unhealthy Gut

7 Signs of an Unhealthy Gut

What is an Unhealthy Gut? How Gut Health Affects You The gut microbiome The complexity of the gut and its importance to our overall health is a topic of increasing research in the medical community. Numerous studies in the past two decades have demonstrated links between gut health and the immune system, mood, mental health,…
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Want a Healthy Brain? Eat Fruit & Vegetables

Adopting a vegan lifestyle for me has been about the journey. While my initial foray to adopt a plant-based diet was address my Type II diabetes, I soon began to see and feel the benefits of removing meat from my diet. My attitude today can be described as holistic. I am interested in maintaining a…