Eggceptional Eggs – Why Eggs from Free Range Hens Are Good For You
As a city girl, it’s been tough finding fresh farm eggs raised from free range chickens. Why be so picky about eggs, you ask? What’s wrong with regular eggs from the supermarket? Nothing. Except that...
View ArticleSuccess Story | Allowing My Body to Reach Its Optimum State
Sorry for my absence, dear readers. Yours truly took advantage of the summer and didn’t spend too much time in front of the computer, making sure I had enough time to play out in the sun. Now, however,...
View ArticleShort and Unpleasant | The 7 Minute Workout
Good article from the NY Times re putting into practice (via exercises) research about the efficacy of high intensity interval exercises in terms of metabolic advantage. The money quotes from the...
View ArticleLavender Scented Coconut Body Butter
My interest in skin care predates my interest in nutrition by several years. My friend K and I would spend hours exchanging recipes, shopping for ingredients and happily creating various DIY skin care...
View ArticleFix Your Dry, Brittle and Dull Hair Using This Little Trick
My little sister and I were shooting the breeze over IM, gossiping about relatives, and one of our fave author’s new book Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah” (highly recommended btw!). We lingered...
View ArticleTop 5 Food Based Ways to Get Glowing Skin
My interest in skin care, which predates my interest in nutrition by a decade, started off as a long fruitless search for perfect, acne-free, glowing skin. I experimented in three ways:...
View ArticleGet Strong, Shiny Thick Hair Using Coconut Oil
My hair loves coconut oil and now I have scientific proof as to why it does. A study done on the oil application of coconut, sunflower and mineral oils on hair proved that coconut oil is unbeatable in...
View ArticleChicken and Brussel Sprout Stir Fry
I like roast chicken…it’s almost a comfort food for me. However, my least favourite part are the breasts, usually due to the lack of taste. So what I do is I use them as ingredients in other...
View ArticleMainstream Skepticism of Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease
When a mainstream, agenda-setting newspaper like the Wall Street Journal devotes significant space to examining the tenuous link between saturated fat and heart disease, including reviewing the bad...
View ArticleDIY Curly Hair Care | Avocado Deep Conditioner
Recall that I talked about my little sister’s phenomenal hair care recipes in this post? Well, she was kind enough to make a sizable batch of her famous avocado-based hair deep conditioning treatment...
View ArticleCancer and A Low Carb Diet: A Link
A good friend of mine recently received news of one of her close family member’s diagnosis with Stage 5 kidney disease, requiring immediate dialysis treatment. The relative was in her mid-40s, a...
View ArticleAvocado, Strawberries, Eggs and Pork | Getting over food taboos
This is what I’ve been eating, in various computations, for the past week: I cooked pork roast for the first time the day before and unfortunately, it was not the biggest hit with either myself or my...
View ArticleThe Big Reset | Eating Right and Adopting Whole30
Life happens and inevitably we forget about our promises to eat right and focus on fitness and we slowly start to fall off the wagon. At least, I did. This year signaled some life changes, including...
View ArticleCritique Of NY Times’ Article About The Biggest Loser & Regaining Weight
A lengthy long form article from the NYTimes, titled “After The Biggest Loser, Their Bodies Fought To Regain Weight“, has gone viral with its underlying premise that weight loss is futile due to the...
View ArticleWalt Whitman and the Paleo Diet
I always meant to put this post up but a seminal American poet advocated for a meat-based diet, and lots of exercise. Walt Whitman, poet, essayist and journalist, wrote a manifesto on healthy living...
View ArticleLow Carb Diet or Bariatric Surgery? It’s a No Brainer
I read this illuminating article from the NY Times with a strong sense of frustration. The focus on instant gratification and quick fix band-aid solutions, underwritten by a profit-focused system that...
View ArticleReversing Type 2 Diabetes By Ignoring The Guidelines
Great talk about reversing Type 2 diabetes from Dr. Sarah Hallberg who also co-wrote this NYTimes article decrying the FDA’s approval of a type of bariatric surgery that has been described as medically...
View ArticleThe Natural Way To Get Your Teeth Whiter and Stronger (Remineralization)
Sodium hydrogen carbonate aka baking soda. This humble compound bats beyond its weight by being featured in so many cooking, cleaning and skin care recipes. It’s a wonder ingredient and rightfully so...
View ArticleHow To Get Beautiful Clear Skin Using The Oil Cleansing Method
Growing up, I was plagued by acne and skin issues that lasted all the way past my teens and into my twenties and thirties – this included pimples, blackheads, whiteheads, dark spots that didn’t go away...
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