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Fresh Levant: Pumpkin Apple Smoothie. Pumpkin shake recipe. Hi! My name’s Nichole. Welcome to Shiny Happy Living, my healthy living blog. I live in New York with my husband, Dan. Here’s the gratuitous wedding photo! I work full-time, and I have two adorable children, Jilly and Sam, and our dog Muggs. Jilly’s almost 3 now. Sam’s 14 months old. And this is Muggs. This blog is where I write about my life and things I love like food, exercise, beauty products, recipes, family, product reviews, health news, natural living, keeping it together, and most of all just having fun! If you want to know anything else, just ask! I hope you find something here that makes your life a little bit more awesome.

10 Detox Foods. When it comes to detoxing your body, there are many techniques you can follow and supplements you can take. One plan in particular is to eat detoxifying foods. Here is a list of detox foods that are a great addition to everybody’s diet. 1. Fruits Fruits are high in liquid-content which helps the body wash out toxins. 2. Fill your refrigerator with blue green algae, barley, wheatgrass, kale, spinach, spirulina, alfalfa, chard, arugula, or other organic leafy greens. Chlorophyll rids the body of harmful environmental toxins from toxic metals, herbicides, cleaning products and pesticides. 3. Citrus fruit aids the body by flushing out toxins and jump-starting the digestive tract with enzymatic processes. Remember, vitamin C is one of the best detox vitamins around, as it transforms toxins into digestible material. 4.

This pungent little bulb is one of the best detoxing foods out there. 5. 6. 7. The mighty mung bean has been used by Ayurvedic doctors for thousands of years. 8. 9. 10. . - Dr. 10 Foods For Brain Health. We’ve all heard “you are what you eat.” While a nutritious and well-balanced diet is of course great for our bodies, there are some foods that are more beneficial and more nutritious than others. We all know about the foods that we should eat that are deemed “healthy”, but what about foods that are good for just one very important part…say, the brain.

In other words, what are the best foods for the brain. Here is some food for thought, literally. Below is a list of 10 foods proven to enhance your brain health as well as ensure your brain is functioning properly on a daily basis. 10. If you’re a seafood kind of person, then today just may be your lucky day. 9.

If you’ve ever tried to lose weight, you know just how healthy whole grains are for your body; however, they are also a great food for your brain. 8. Forget your coffee in the morning- try a cup of tea! 7. When we get older, our brains begin to shrink due to something called brain atrophy. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Natural Appetite Suppressants. Wikipedia- Health effects of coffee. Brewed beverage made from the seed of Coffea species Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species.

All fruit must be further processed from a raw material—the fruit and seed—into a stable, raw product; un-roasted, green coffee. To process the berries, the seed is separated from the fruit to produce green coffee. Green coffee is then roasted, a process which transforms the raw product (green coffee) into a consumable product (roasted coffee). Roasted coffee is ground into a powder and mixed with water to produce a cup of coffee. Clinical research indicates that moderate coffee consumption is benign or mildly beneficial as a stimulant in healthy adults, with continuing research on whether long-term consumption reduces the risk of some diseases, although some of the long-term studies are of questionable credibility.[5] The two most commonly grown coffee bean types are C. arabica and C. robusta. Etymology History Biology Production. Whfoods. 100 foods that can serve as the basis of your Healthiest Way of Eating.

Links to the articles about these foods can be found below. In addition to questions about our foods, we often get asked about beverages and sweeteners. In the beverage category, water and green tea have been especially popular topics, and in the sweetener category, so have blackstrap molasses, honey and maple syrup. Of course, there are many other nutritious foods other than those that we have included on our list that we feel are wonderful, health-promoting foods; if there are other whole foods - such as fruits, vegetables, nuts/seeds, whole grains, etc - that you like, by all means enjoy them.

Just because a food is not on our list doesn't mean that we don't think that it can be included in a diet geared towards the Healthiest Way of Eating as long as it is a whole, natural, nutrient-rich food. FAQs about the World's Healthiest Foods Criteria for The World's Healthiest Foods 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.