Holistic Nutrition

Most of us drink tea daily. Plus, it’s easy to make – just pour hot water onto some tea leaves and then allow it too steep for around five to eight minutes, so that the flavor and infuse into the water. Normally tea is made of the leave of the …

Nightshade fruits and vegetables belong to the solanum and capsicum plant families. In addition, nightshade plants encompasses poisons, such as solanine. It can lead to fatal results if you ingesting nightshade plants, but you can find plenty of vegetables and fruits and vegetables like these in your local grocery store, …

An easy, and quick way to cut the calories, stay healthy and lose some of that fat, is through the use of a liquid diet. The only question is, if liquid diets really do offer that healthy alternative as compared to cooking your own nutritious meals and following a balance …

Green tea is currently a very popular drink, rightly so, since it can offer some really good health benefits. Some of the benefits include the reduction of risks associated with type 2 diabetes, heart problems and cancer. More so, drinking green tea is excellent for people who would like to …

We do this to people that are bad, but when it comes to food we avoid even wanting to talk about it. But there are just some foods that we should cut out of our diets, simply since they are extremely unhealthy and could hurt our health and over-all well …

Artificial sweeteners have become a normal, mostly as part of weight management and those trying to lose some weight. There sweeteners, or synthetic sugar substitutes, are also added to processed foods and drinks to sweeten their taste. This sweetness comes without calories being added. However, although dieters might like the …

Sometimes you just want a sweet treat, but you do not want the guilt. There is also this belief that if you want to be healthy, sweets and desserts have no place on the healthy diet plan. What if I tell you that there are some sweet treats you can …

Cumin, or Cuminum cyminum L as it is also known in Latin, is a low growing leafy plant found in India, the Middle East, China and Mediterranean region. More so, cumin seeds are referring to the fruit of the plant, but this plant is best known globally as a spice. …

In our modern Western style diets, we are exposed to a large selection of bad foods. These are foods that are unhealthy as they contain little nutritional value, but do contain unwholesome ingredients, like grease, processed salt and sugar, and trans fats and artificial flavors. Commonly these bad foods are …

Ginger, or in Latin Zingiber officinale, is part of the Zingiberaceae family. This flowering plant originates from China, and is closely related to cardamom, turmeric and galangal. Ginger comes from rhizomes. A rhizome is a stem that grows horizontally underground and forms roots downwards while leaves and new stems sprout …