Food & Diet

Food Recommendations

Food Recommendations

Eating a variety of foods and rotating foods are important for optimal health because this: encourages a diverse gut microbiome, which reduces risk of disease prevents food sensitivities and intolerances minimizes the buildup of irritants such as histamines, lectins,...

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Benefits of Eating Cooked Vegetables

Benefits of Eating Cooked Vegetables

We all know that eating vegetables is good for us, but are you aware that their nutritional value depends somewhat on how they’re prepared? While vegetables in any form are a wonderful source of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and fibre (both soluble and insoluble),...

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Lectins

Lectins

Lectins, a protein found in plants that act as the plant’s defense mechanism, have been found to cause adverse reactions in some people. Like other animals, humans have problems digesting lectins because they’re highly resistant to your body’s digestive enzymes....

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Soluble Fibre: How It Helps IBS

Soluble Fibre: How It Helps IBS

Dietary fibre is the part of plant-based food that mostly passes through your digestive system without being digested. Although many foods contain both soluble and insoluble fibre, for the purpose of calming Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) symptoms the focus is on...

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Decolonize Your Plate

Decolonize Your Plate

In recent years, we have been told that we need to decolonize our bookshelf. In fact, it is our plate that needs decolonizing. In the early 20th century, pioneering dentist and researcher Dr. Weston Price studied the effects of traditional and modern diets on peoples...

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