When it comes to functional foods, the turkey tail mushroom, often called turkey tail fungus, may top the list. Named for the colorful fall-like palette of stripes it adorns that favor the plume of feathers on turkeys, turkey tail mushrooms have been brewed for thousands of years by the Chinese as medicinal teas, so it's no…
The meaning of macrobiotic is "great life." The core concepts central to the macrobiotic diet, including the Traditional Chinese Medicine belief balancing yin and yang both within the body and one's environment, date back many centuries in ancient Eastern traditions. Proponents of macrobiotic eating approaches have long encouraged people to eat natural, whole foods that…
If you dislike the taste of seaweed but want to add a nutritional sea vegetable into your diet, then you're in luck. Dulse, a seaweed that's gaining popularity in culinary circles, tastes like — believe it or not — bacon. Dulse has been harvested and consumed for over a thousand years, with early records of…
Although barley may not be as popular as other whole grains like oats, wheat or even grain-of-the-moment quinoa, the heath perks associated with barley nutrition shouldn't be overlooked. What are the benefits of eating barley? A very high fiber content (both soluble and insoluble), vitamins and minerals like selenium and magnesium, antioxidants called lignans, plus heart health and diabetes…
What would you think about eating a mushroom that looks a little like the scruff of a lion? Not totally convinced about lion's mane mushroom? What if I told you that it’s associated with major brain repair, potential cancer-fighting power and is undergoing research on dozens of other health benefits? Lion's mane mushroom is a…
FODMAP is an acronym for a collection of food molecules (mostly sugars) that are short-chained carbohydrates, both fermentable and poorly absorbed in the gut. If you haven’t heard the term “FODMAPs" thrown around at work or at the gym lately, you probably will soon enough. Essentially, FODMAPs stands for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols.…
The stovetop is on and the oil is sizzling in the pan. It’s time to flip the falafel and rotate the gyro meat in the oven. You have the pita bread ready with vegetables and hummus, but it feels like you’re missing something. Herbs? Cucumber? Oh, wait … time to make tzatziki sauce! What Is…
It’s every dieter’s dream: Imagine being able to eat whatever you want most days of the week, limiting your intake for one or two days at a time, and still losing weight. This is what many people experience when they begin practicing intermittent fasting (IF). Intermittent fasting can do more than slim just your waistline.…
There are lots and lots of reasons to eat organic food over non-organic, but it can be hard to distinguish just what exactly constitutes organic foods. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) admitted as much by updating its guidelines for organic food labeling. The USDA explained in a press release: Today, the USDA National Organic…
