How to Keep Your Brain Young and Healthy

 

Developing dementia and Alzheimer’s does not have to be an accepted part of getting older. Your brain has an incredible ability to grow new brain cells and stay young as you age. Even if you’ve noticed you’re becoming forgetful, you can still increase brain cells and neurons. It isn’t hard to do, and you can start rebuilding brain cells and preserve the ones you have today.

How to Build Muscle With a Plant-Based Diet

One of the most asked plant-based questions is can you build muscle eating a plant-based diet or a vegan diet. And the answer is yes, you can build muscle eating a plant-based diet. In fact, you will find that your energy level when exercising is at the best level it has ever been when you switch to a whole food plant-based diet. But you must make sure you eat the right plant-based foods and avoid the wrong ones.

Forbidden Rice and Its Wonderful Health Benefits

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Are you looking for something new and healthy to add to your diet? Try adding some forbidden rice to your next meal. Forbidden rice also known as black rice or purple rice is a different rice variety and one of the healthiest foods you can eat, and it tastes good. You can have it as a side dish or use it as part of the main meal. No matter what your dietary preference, this special rice can perk up any meal.

8 Plant-Based Myths and the Truth

Whether you eat a vegan diet or a plant-based diet, you constantly hear the plant-based myths that you’ll end up sick. Science has repeatedly proven these myths and criticisms unfounded, yet we still hear them. It seems we have to defend ourselves just because we eat a plant-based diet. You don’t have to stand idly by while someone criticizes you for your healthy dietary choices. Learn how to answer their criticisms with the facts.

Quick and Easy Whole Food Plant-Based Meal Ideas

If you’re new to eating a plant-based diet, you’re probably wondering what everyone eats and how to make plant-based meals. There is such a huge choice of healthy foods to choose from, it can be overwhelming. At first, it is best to find meals you really like and keep them simple. Here are some quick and easy plant-based meal ideas for you.

Why It's So Hard to Make Healthy Lifestyle Changes

Most of us realize that sooner or later we have to make some healthy lifestyle changes. Our doctor tells us, our kids tell us, our parents tell us, and we tell ourselves. But it seems so hard to change our diet and our way of life. Learn why it’s so hard and you can easily make those healthy lifestyle changes today.

What Is the Best Diet to Prevent Cancer

If there was a pill you could take every day to prevent cancer, would you take it. You would say yes. Would you take a pill that could kill cancer cells, of course, you would. There is no pill, but there is a diet that you can eat that has been proven to reduce your risk of getting cancer and kill cancer cells. Find out what the best diet to prevent cancer is.

How to Break Through a Weight Loss Plateau

You have finally changed your diet to a healthier way of eating, and you’re starting to lose weight and feel better. And then all of a sudden you stop losing weight, you might even start gaining weight again. You have hit the dreaded weight loss plateau. Learn how to break through a weight-loss plateau while continuing to eat a plant-based diet. 

Why You Should Avoid Vegan Junk Foods

Being a vegan is about animal rights and the health of the planet. But shouldn’t vegans also care about their own health just as much. If you end up in bad health because of poor food choices, how can you continue to fight for animal rights and the planet? You will be amazed at how much better you feel and how many animals you can save when you avoid vegan junk foods.

The Unhealthy Truth About Vegetable Oils

When someone first starts eating a whole food plant-based diet, one of the first questions they ask is why vegetable oils are avoided. Despite all the talk that olive oil is a healthy fat, it is actually unhealthy. And it’s not only olive oil, but all vegetable oils that are unhealthy. Vegetable oils keep us from losing weight and cause health issues. Find out exactly why they are unhealthy and what they do to your body.

How to Say No to Unhealthy Food

You know you want to lose weight. You know you want to get healthy. You worry about illnesses like diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure. The one thing that is stopping you from getting healthy is it is so hard to say no to unhealthy food. And it is hard because unhealthy food is all around us, but learning these tips can help you reach your health goals.

How Not to Be an Unhealthy Vegetarian

Do you eat a vegetarian diet and can’t seem to lose weight, or you gain weight and feel terrible? You might think you are eating a healthy vegetarian diet, but you could actually be eating a diet of junk food and not realize it. Eliminating animal products in your diet does not automatically mean you're eating healthy. Doctors report that many of their patients are in fact vegetarians. Find out how not to be an unhealthy vegetarian.

How To Create Good Gut Bacteria

Our gut microbiome is the most important difference between good health and bad health. The type of bacteria in a person’s digestive system can cause disease or heal disease. You can create good gut bacteria just by the foods you eat and rejuvenate your body from the inside out. By creating the right types of gut bacteria, you can dramatically boost your immune system, preventing and in many cases reversing illnesses.

Natural Weight Loss Made Simple For You

Losing weight is simple and yet hard at the same time. Losing weight naturally sounds wonderful, simple and healthy. Natural weight loss as opposed to a medical procedure such as having your stomach stapled or with weight loss pills is the healthy way. Once you gain a little knowledge of losing weight naturally, you will be able to accomplish your goals. If you want to lose weight and regain your health, this really does work. 

How To Get Healthy Vitamins on a Plant-Based Diet

With so many chronic illnesses like diabetes, obesity, heart disease and many others today, people are thinking about changing their way of eating to a plant-based diet to improve their health. This is not always an easy choice and there are questions that everyone will ask. The main questions usually concern getting enough vitamins and nutrients. This article will answer your questions about getting all of the vitamins and nutrients you need in a whole food plant-based diet

The Complete Guide to a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet

Is a whole food plant-based diet the healthiest way to eat? Studies show that this way of eating can help a person lose weight, reverse disease and feel great. That sounds like a big promise, but it has been proven over again, that eating this way does reverse many types of disease including obesity, type II diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, heart disease, arthritis and more.

How to Reverse Chronic Disease With Diet

This article will change the way you think about eating carbohydrates as you will learn that complex whole foods are some of the healthiest foods on the planet. You will see just how healthy the simple baked potato is. There is no more need to fear carbs like potatoes, whole grains, and vegetables. These foods will not make you fat, and they will not cause diabetes as too many people claim today.

Eating plenty of whole plant-based foods along with healthy fiber and starch will not only help you to lose weight, but it can also reverse type II diabetes, lower high blood pressure and reverse heart disease, and other chronic diseases to the point you could very well get off all medications.

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Is a Raw Food Diet Healthy

Sometimes called the living food diet, the raw food diet is a way of eating for many people. Recently, celebrities have touted the health benefits of eating only raw foods. Actually, the idea of eating only raw food goes back to the early 19th century. But, is eating raw foods every day actually that healthy for us?

How a Change in Diet Improved My Arthritis

Does that old knee or elbow injury really hurt now or do your joints just ache? Arthritis is a painful disease that can certainly lower your enjoyment of life. There are different types of arthritis, but more studies are finding that inflammation could be the start of arthritis. When I was first told I was getting arthritis, I changed my diet and almost immediately felt better.

Why You Should Get Calcium from Non-Dairy Foods

It is well known that calcium is important to our health, but not everyone wants to drink milk and for those who are lactose intolerant cannot have dairy products. Getting calcium from milk might not be the healthiest way either. Do we need milk for calcium, the answer is no since there are plenty of non-dairy foods with calcium.