ROYGBIV: The Color of Health By Patty James Why is it important to eat lots of different colored fruits and vegetables? Because each colored vegetable and fruit has unique properties and there is strong evidence that there are interactions between the colors that are beneficial to your health. 'Eating by the Rainbow' is vitally important to your well-being. Here are the colors: Red foods contain lycopene that helps rid the body of damaging free radicals,

More Vegetables Please! Easy Ways To Add More Veggies to Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner by Patty James Why should you and your family love veggies and eat more of them? For starters, vegetables contain high amounts of water and are therefore hydrating. Vegetables contain necessary vitamins and minerals as well as important phytonutrients that provide support for proper function and protection to the cells in our bodies. Most American's, kids most definitely

Fake Foods - Not What Nature Intended for Growing Kids by Jane Sheppard Fresh, natural whole foods are perfectly created to provide our kids with everything they need for great health and development. The processed food we get in convenient packages contains synthetic substances such as refined or artificial sweeteners, preservatives, colorings, and other chemical compounds in order to make it taste better or to prolong shelf-life. When our kids

Excitotoxins, Neurodegeneration and Neurodevelopment By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D There are a growing number of clinicians and basic scientists who are convinced that a group of compounds called excitotoxins play a critical role in the development of several neurological disorders including migraines, seizures, infections, abnormal neural development, certain endocrine disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders, learning disorders in children, AIDS dementia,

Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) recall leaves food consumers wondering: What is this stuff? by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor NaturalNews.com (NaturalNews) Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP) is one of most common soy-based food "fillers" used to make literally thousands of processed food products. It's found in veggie burgers, gravy mixes, soups and many other grocery products. Last Thursday, one of the largest producers of

Is Your Child Eating Magnesium-Rich Foods? by Jane Sheppard Children who are not eating plenty of magnesium-rich foods - nuts, green vegetables, beans, peas, and whole grains - may have a mild magnesium deficiency. The typical American processed diet doesn't provide enough magnesium. Magnesium deficiency can show up as irritability, agitation, anxiety, decreased attention span, mental confusion, restless let syndrome, sleep problems, muscle weakness,

How To Add Leafy Green Vegetables to Your Diet By Judy Braley Many of us already know how good green vegetables are for our health, but sometimes it's hard to incorporate them into our daily diet except in the form of a green salad, and often that's made of iceberg lettuce which is hardly green at all. Leafy greens are highly nutritious and low in calories. The World's Healthiest Foods site (www.whfoods.com) puts collard greens, kale, mustard greens,

Randall Neustaedter OMD Cow's milk has been promoted as a perfect food for children, high in protein, calcium, and healthy calories. On the other hand, milk's detractors, including knowledgeable physicians, have noted milk's many problems. Cow's milk ingestion has been associated with allergies, anemia, autism, diabetes, and cancer. What should parents do? Let's try to sort out the issues. First, I do not recommend cow's milk until children are at

By Jo Robinson When you switch from grainfed to grassfed animal products, you instantly create a more nutritious, wholesome diet. First of all, you eliminate a lot of "bad" fat from your diet. When cattle, sheep, and bison are raised on pasture, their meat is naturally very lean. For example, a sirloin steak from a grassfed steer has about one half to one third the amount of fat as a similar cut from a grainfed steer. In fact, grassfed meat has about

By Jo Robinson What are grassfed animal products? Most of the meat, poultry, dairy products, and eggs available in your grocery store come from animals that are raised in large confinement facilities where they are fed grain-based diets and treated with a variety of drugs. By contrast, "grassfed" products come from animals that are raised on high-quality pasture on small family farms. The animals are not treated with hormones, feed antibiotics, or