Enlightened Eater

This one is a Give Me a Break post if there ever was one. Reports abound about a new study that suggests that mixing alcohol with diet drinks can make you drunker than if you have a sugar-laden soft drink as a mixer. The research assessed blood alcohol levels following the consumption of an alcoholic […]

You might think that detoxifying your body can be a daunting task. If you search  “detox diets” on the internet, you’ll only get about four million hits but if you go for “detox supplements”, the results skyrocket up to over seven million. Instead of wasting hard earned dollars on cleanses and supplements to rid your […]

Everywhere you turn nowadays, you hear about cleansing diets and the best way to detox.  At the same time, we’re constantly bombarded about just how fat we’re becoming and the toll on health this excess weight can take. Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure and certain cancers are among the well known maladies linked […]

Today’s headlines about leafy green vegetables might leave you wanting to skip this section of the produce aisles. “Leafy greens top source of food poisoning in U.S.” and “Leafy green vegetables top source of food poisoning: CDC” screamed just a few of the numerous headlines.   The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released study […]

It’s a new dawn in the link between your genes and what you put on your plate. Do you get frustrated reading about nutrition research? Have you noticed that when a new study touting the benefit of a certain food is published, soon after another one, which has the opposite conclusion, makes the headlines? For […]

Have you heard about The Kale Project? It began as an initiative to reintroduce this nutrition-packed leafy green vegetable to Paris. Reintroduce? It seems that the French had too much of these vegetables during the time of food shortages during World War II. The French might want to take a lesson from the Mediterranean Diet. It, […]

For the majority of you reading this post, the temperatures outside are frigid. It’s definitely frost-bite territory. A mug of hot cocoa is a perfect reward for making from the outdoors. And if the right kind of cocoa, it provides a bevy of health perks too. It’s the cocoa component of dark chocolate that has […]

Why does the government impose laws when it comes to big money but not health?     Have you written to your Member of Parliament to support NDP MP Libby Davies’ Private Member’s Bill- Bill C-460- The Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada Act? I have and finally heard from my M.P.,  John Carmichael. It took a […]