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After a season of overly sweet treats, these chocolate cookies are the perfect dessert. Adapted from bakerita, these cookies have no refined sugars but are just as good with a glass of milk.

Drive away any winter woes with a bowlful of healthy and nourishing goat trotter soup, made as a traditional Indian recipe…

Oh, the poor potato! Once a staple of many diets around the world, it has been unjustly maligned in recent years due to its starchiness, which lands it high on the glycemic index. In actuality this traditional food comes in degrees of starchiness depending on the variety, and also has a good amount of nutrients. There are documented reports of people living exclusively on potatoes for up to three years. In my mind, the worst thing about them is that they’re often ill-prepared, and what ends up on our plates is a soggy shadow of what a potato could be. 

Ayurveda is one of the most ancient of the healing arts that considers the body, the mind and the spirit. Its philosophy is the basis of other eastern healing methods and also includes several holistic healing methods. Ayurveda states that disease begins in the gastrointestinal tract when the system is out of balance and food is not digested properly. It uses foods as a treatment based on six tastes of sweet, sour, pungent, bitter and astringent.

Sometimes we get in a hurry in the morning and settle for boxed cereal, granola bars, or instant breakfast drinks. But there are other options besides grabbing a piece of fruit and dashing to the car.
Here are three morning meals that will break you out of the breakfast box:

Resolutions come and go, but creating lasting, sustainable change takes determination, effort and a desire to see results. Let’s skip the New Year, new you propaganda and just focus on understanding the theory behind mindfulness as it relates to nutrition, and see how easy implementing mindfulness into your daily life can be with six simple guidelines to follow.

When it comes to eating, why is it that we, as a society, relinquish control or do not act consciously when making food choices? 

Just before my first trip to India, I went in search of advice on how to avoid “Delhi-Belly” and mostly got the standard recommendation: do not, at any cost, drink the local tap water (and beware that ice is also a hazard since it is usually made from tap water).

THE RAW FOOD DIET

“You are what you eat!” As a health enthusiast who practices the natural ways of healing, I have to say that the statement holds a lot of truth. The raw food diet is regaining its popularity once again. That’s right, folks, this is another old-school way of healing recently being unearthed.

Hip-hop is a powerful and infectious medium for cultural communication; in fact, Spotify analyzed billions of tracks in 2015 and declared it to be the most popular genre of its listeners around the world.

Many New Year’s resolutions involve eating better. But with such a lofty goal, it can be hard to know where to start. Fortunately, just a few simple changes make stepping in the right direction easy. This list, organized starting with the easiest steps to implement, makes cleaner eating accessible no matter what.