Swap Red Meat for Beans and Plant-Based Protein
Protein is one of the most valuable nutrients you can provide for your body. Protein is essential for fueling your body with healthy energy needed to keep you feeling good and help your body maintain healthy functions like metabolism and building and repairing tissue...
Weight Watching Recipes with Beans
The end of the year is upon us, and thank goodness for that! I think everyone has just about had their fill of 2020 and is ready to turn our focus to 2021 and all the good things that we hope to come next year. However, the New Year’s tradition of setting resolutions...
3 Ways to Maintain Good Gut Health
The human body is a pretty incredible and strange thing. Take this fun, albeit somewhat unsettling fact: did you know there are about 100 trillion bacteria living in the intestinal tract of your body? Ok, take a deep breath and don’t freak out. No matter how strange...
Healthy Cookout Tips
One of our favorite things about spring and summer is that it finally gives us a chance to get outside and fire up the grill and cook up some delicious food for friends and family. Whether you cook on a gas or charcoal grill, there is just something about the open...
Is the Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet Replacing the Vegan Diet?
Have you heard about the Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet? In recent years, this dietary movement has been growing in popularity and has begun to be adopted by many all over the world. The diet in many ways on the surface seemingly holds very similar values and practices...
Beans in the Blue Zones
Have you heard of the Blue Zones? The Blue Zones refer to several specific regions around the world including Sardinia, Italy, Okinawa, Japan, Loma Linda, California, Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, and Icaria, Greece (which we actually talked about in an article a...
