What is an Alkaline pH Level and How to Monitor yo...

What does it mean to “Alkalize” your body? Well, it’s the opposite of having your system be Acidic. Remember those litmus papers from high school lab? You can actually use those to test our urine or saliva to see what your pH level is. We ideally want to score at least in the 6-7 range because this means we are not too acidic (which can lead to health problems). What causes an acidic pH level? These foods, for...

A One Week Healthy Meal Plan...

Here is a fine example of a healthy meal plan for the week! This is a what a healthy well-balanced omnivore diet should look like over a week. The plan can be altered to a vegetarian/vegan by substituting meat for tofu or tempe (the healthier version of tofu- because it’s fermented) and substituting milk for soy, almond, or rice milk! First a little background. where’s the calorie count? I don’t...

Grapefruit Seed Extract: The Anti-Anti-Biotic...

Like many people these days, you might be searching for an alternative to antibiotics. It always seems any little infection we get, the answer from doctors is always the same: Antibiotics! It is foolish to always rely on antibiotics as the quick fix to any infection, since they can have so many different causes, and every time we take these meds, our bodies build up a resistance to them…meaning that antibiotics often...

What is a Raw Food diet?...

The Raw Food Diet (totally vegetarian – no worries!) stems from the belief that all food we eat should be “alive.” All processed junk foods are “dead”, and raw foodists go on to say that by cooking or baking food we “kill” it – so that any vegetable cooked, or any bread baked, is “dead.” What they really mean is that all the good enzymes that keep us disease-free are...