Month: October 2015

Why family dinner?

Are you a parent? Do you live on planet earth? Then,I’m convinced that you must have heard about all the important things that can come about when you sit down with your kids every night to eat dinner: They’ll perform better in school, have greater self-esteem and they’re most likely to prefer taking fruits and veggies to drugs. You can testify to this yourself!…

Don’t Throw Away the Best Part of the Avocado Ever Again

Avocados have a huge number of health benefits, and their versatility in the kitchen make them easy to add to nearly any dish. They have healthy fats, vitamin K, lutein, folate, and many more important vitamins and nutrients. But, if you’re like most people, you’re throwing away the best part of the avocado, and we’re not talking about the skin. The seed of the avocado contains 70% of the nutritional benefits of the avocado, so adding the seed or seed oil to your diet will help you increase your nutritional intake and provide you with more antioxidants.

Where to Live if You Want the Best Organic Produce

78% of all the organic food sales come from just 10 U.S. states, so if you want to significantly reduce the amount of time and distance it takes for your food to go from the farm to your fork, consider moving to one of these states.

California takes the cake and has 41% of the total organic sales nationwide, coming in at $2.2 billion in sales last year. Washington State came in the second position with just $515 million in sales. Then comes Pennsylvania, Oregon, Wisconsin, Texas, New York, Colorado, Michigan, and Iowa.…

5 Coffee Benefits You Might Not Have Known About

Although the exact origin of coffee as we know it today is not entirely known, few coffee-drinkers in the U.S. will argue that they are passionate about this drink. Most of the coffee drinkers in the United States are between the ages of 40 and 60. Despite its popularity, there are a number of surprising health benefits that coffee has. Most healthy is drinking organically produced coffee.

1. Increased Blood Circulation

Just 5 ounces of black coffee can increase the blood flow in your capillaries by 30%. This helps to make sure that all of your body’s tissues are oxygenated …

USDA Releases Data that Reveals a Positive Future for Organic Food

The national organic standards have officially been around for 15 years now, and the USDA celebrated its birthday by putting out a survey on the organic farms and products, the first since 2008. This survey has revealed that over 14,000 organic farms sold about $5.5 billion worth of organic products last year in the United States alone. This is a whopping 72% increase since 2008. Organic dairy products alone make up over $1 billion of that number.…

The collapse of the USDA Organic Seal

Exactly when you felt obtaining REAL preservative and chemical stabilizer free natural food was sufficiently tough, the Consumers Union, editor of Consumer Reports has downsized the USDA Organic Seal from “highly meaningful” to “meaningful,”  saying that the organic program is strikingly deviating from its unique command to serve as a watchman for giving humanly nurtured, low-affect, genuinely clean nourishment to the health movement development in the U.S.…