November 2016

Sweet potatoes or Yam?

Here is a fact that my daughter will immediately call “bizarre”. Sweet potatoes are not potatoes and Yam is not sweet potato! In fact all of these similar looking tubers are very different, Yam was brought to...

Teaching our kids to grow up unhealthy?

If you are a parent like me with kids in public schools, most of our attention to schooling lies in academics, grades and social development. But, one aspect of public schools that always gets a solid “F”,...

The Mandatory Mineral: Calcium

Do you truly understand the immense power calcium has to help keep you young? No matter what age you are at right now, it is never too late to start getting more calcium into your diet. As...

Potassium: Shifting the balance

Considering you live in a city, have a busy life, don’t worry too much about what kind of junk you consume on a daily basis, chances are that you have a heavy load of sodium in your...

You are what you eat!

What you put into your mouth everyday, starting from the time you were born to your entire lifetime, has a profound and lost last effect on your health, longevity, quality of aging and even your mind. Just...

Are Bananas Berries?

Botanically speaking strawberries and raspberries aren’t really berries. They form out of a single flower with more than one ovary. True berries are fruits stemming from one flower with one ovary and typically have several seeds, like...

Get this Vitamin from wherever you can

Unless you are depressed and suicidal or an idiot, you want to live a long life with great health. But what do you do? You give up on the most important aspect to make that happen and...