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Can Juicing Just Die Already?

Today I want to talk about juicing. And after that I want juicing to die. I’m so sick of hearing about it. Just earlier this week someone asked me what I thought of a grapefruit juice cleanse and another asked about those daily shakes food…

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

This week is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week! Okay so there is nothing exciting about eating disorders BUT there are plenty of reasons why awareness is important, mainly the fact that eating disorders are one of the deadliest mental illnesses. So here you go, a little…

Genetically Modified Organisms

Hokay before you read this post you MUST watch this YouTube video- http://youtu.be/exBEFCiWyW0 Isn’t she adorable? Hand in hand with what she said, I heard an excellent analogy today: “I don’t care how ‘moderately’ you put kerosene in your gas tank… eventually your car will break down.”…

Selenium

Ahhh Pearl’s favorite mineral! Though this guy is only needed in small amounts it packs an enormous punch in the body. Selenium’s primary role is as a component of the enzyme glutathione peroxidase. Pearl say whaaaaaaaat?

Vitamin D

Now that it is getting colder and we’re spending more time inside it’s important to pay attention to your vitamin D intake!Vitamin D is so freakin’ cool. It is the only vitamin our bodies actually have the ability to make. It also acts differently in…

When Healthy Becomes Unhealthy

I love that healthy has become a new movement. Health memes, bragging about exercise, and excessive hash tagging about #nutrition and #cleaneating has reached obnoxious proportions on social media and I love it. People who eat real food make me exceptionally happy. The sentence “I…