Whole Food Plant-Based Recipes. No Oil. No Sugar. Simple and Clean.
It is a fact generally known that eating a variety of foods makes a diet healthy and well balanced. The problem is that once we embark on a certain diet, we start buying all those foods, which supposedly have the highest amount of nutritional value. Once we start doing that, […]
Kiwi, also known as kiwifruit or Chinese gooseberry refers to an edible berry derived from a plant called woody vine. It is oval in shape and has a dull greenish-brown skin with rows of tiny, black seeds that come with numerous health benefits. Most people like kiwifruit due to its […]
When you entertain or visit friends you should be enjoying yourself, not worrying about your meal. I have been through this already and will give you some easy tips for being a good host…and a good guest.
I remember sitting in a University nutrition class listening to the professor explaining the concept of thermodynamics and caloric balance. It was a simple math equation, if calories in are less than calories out your end result is weight loss. Wow! I felt like I was just let in on […]
Many people have been asking my advice for travelling and maintaining whole foods plant based diet. We have had some real-life practice recently since I sent my husband on a road trip from Tallinn to Barcelona to take our car there with most of the stuff for the winter. He […]
I know you’ve heard it before. The key to any successful weight loss program is to count calories and burn more than you take in. But with so many people increasingly becoming obese and sick, could this practice be missing the mark? The truth is, there is a much bigger […]
I experienced the benefits of fermented foods myself very recently – my doctor asked me to take probiotics in a pill form to balance my micro flora after an illness. Instead I bought some sauerkraut and started munching. Just after a day I felt a lot better, and my micro […]
Coronary artery disease, the most common form of heart disease, which is responsible for heart attacks need never exist and if it does exist, it need never progress. How can one make that statement when coronary disease is the leading killer of women and men in western civilization? Astonishing findings […]
I went for a walk in the park yesterday and picked a pocketful (I did not have anything else to put them into) of spruce tips. “Why on earth?” some might ask. They taste so good and are packed with vitamin C! When I finished picking the tips I felt […]
By age 10, nearly all kids have fatty streaks in their arteries. This is the first sign of atherosclerosis, the leading cause of death in the United States. So the question for most of us is not whether we should eat healthy to prevent heart disease, but whether we want […]
Environmental Working Group (EWG) publishes its annual rating of conventional foods with the most and least pesticide residues.
I've been into healthy eating for many years, but developed a more profound interest in nutrition and related diseases when I started reading The China Study and other special books on nutrition. After being in real estate and hospitality business for more than 10 years I decided to totally change my path to spread the word about healthy and sustainable nutrition and lifestyle. I am also a Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate graduate from eCornell. I hope you enjoy my whole food plant-based recipes and practical tips!
