Take Charge of Your Digestion – Part 1: Fiber

Over the next four months, I will be focusing on the four components that together provide a natural and beneficial way to optimum digestion. Advanced Naturals, who I endorse for high quality, natural supplements, calls these four parts the H.O.P.E. formula and it includes High fiber, Omega-3 oils, Probiotis, and Enzymes. This month we’re going to dive into FIBER.   …

Facts About Fats

Perhaps you’ve heard the saying “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” This is definitely NOT the case when it comes to dietary fat. All fats are NOT created equal! How do you know which fats are good and which are bad? If you feel like you can’t keep up with the news and research, you are …

Diving Deeper into Healthy Fats

  What Are Healthy Fats? By now most of us have heard that healthy fats are important for our health, but we seem to get lost in the perception of what is healthy. We’re just emerging from a period of low-fat thinking that still makes it hard to decide what to eat. For more than 60 years, Americans have been …

Confused About Fat – What’s Healthy & What’s Not?

A lot of confusion still exists on the topic of healthy fats and oils, especially in deciding what to use on a daily basis. For years we have received conflicting information on the benefits of processed vegetable oils such as canola, safflower, and hydrogenated oils in margarine and shortening. To this day Coconut oil is still considered to be something …