The importance of taking a prenatal vitamin during pregnancy is well-known, but one of the most crucial components of that vitamin is known as folic acid. Folic acid is a human-made vitamin that helps with the development of a baby’s brain and spinal cord. Since...
If you’ve spent any amount of time perusing healthy eating and nutrition blogs, you’ve probably come across the term “antioxidant.” But what are they, and are they truly beneficial? To answer this question, we need to understand a bit about how the body works. As...
This spring, five people died after eating lettuce contaminated with E. coli. The CDC recently announced that 90 people have gotten salmonella from raw turkey meat. Goldfish and Ritz crackers were just voluntarily recalled due to possible salmonella presence....
Juicing is all the rage lately. It seems to be a quick and easy way to get all of your servings of fruits in vegetables in one sitting. Joe Cross made a documentary about his extreme weight loss as a result of juicing. But is juicing as healthy as it seems? Juicing...
