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Sassafras: Beneficial Natural Remedy or Dangerous Drug?

Unlike the Urban Dictionary listing states, sassafras does not refer to dripping sarcasm. It’s actually a type of tree that grows in North America and East Asia, providing a pleasant aroma — and a great deal ...

Beginner’s Guide to the Flexitarian Diet (Less Meat, More Plants)

Too often, diets are based on what you can’t eat. Veganism: no animal products at all. Vegetarianism: goodbye, steaks and chicken wings. Gluten-free: see ya later, grains. Paleo: don’t even look at that block of ...

Postbiotics: Uses + 5 Benefits for Gut Health & Beyond

While knowledge about the benefits associated with probiotics has exploded over the past decade, many people are still unsure about how prebiotics and postbiotics work. Probiotics are the "good" (or "friendly") bacteria that colonize the digestive ...

Fruitarian Diet: Are All-Fruit Diets Dangerous to Your Health?

Have you ever read about the Steve Jobs diet? Well, it sounds like it changed quite frequently, but for some time he was following a fruitarian diet. At other times, he would limit his diet ...

Does Alternate Day Fasting Work for Weight Loss?

By now, you’ve likely heard of the benefits of fasting — how it’s a great method of kickstarting weight loss, helps normalize insulin sensitivity and lowers levels of bad cholesterol in the body. While there ...

Can Deer Antler Spray Build Strength and Endurance?

Deer antler spray — a supplement commonly used in the fitness and sports industries that has a long history of use in Eastern medicine — is pretty much as strange as it sounds. Derived from ...

36 Taco Recipes … for Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner!

Tacos are one of my favorite meals. Not only are they suitable for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but there are so many different varieties. Not just the flavorless ground beef and oil-laden tortilla shells of yesteryear, today's ...

The Next Great ‘Grain’: 24 Millet Recipes

If you’ve never heard of millet, you’re not alone. The ancient food is more widely known in the Western world as the main ingredient in bird feed than as a diet staple, but that’s primed ...

24 Mediterranean Diet Recipes

Have you heard of the Mediterranean diet? It's one of the healthiest ways of eating: full of leafy greens and non-starchy veggies like eggplants and artichokes. The meals burst with flavor thanks to herbs and spices, and ...

21 Secrets for Eating Healthy on a Budget

Eating healthy can be a challenge. But eating healthy on a budget can seem next to impossible. Luckily, that doesn’t have to be the case, as it's surprisingly doable to maintain healthy eating on a budget if you're ...