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 this year and ready to turn their focus on next year and all the good things that we hope to come. 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...
What Food Group are Beans In?
June is National Fruits and Vegetables month, so we are spending the month celebrating the healthiest food groups around. Of course, if we are spending a month talking about healthy foods, we can’t forget one of the healthiest, delicious, and most unique super foods...
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...
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...
